"and mother. However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, ""Stag,"" contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering ""Top Hat"", ""Gentleman"", ""Sir'"", ""Satyr"", ""Pan"" and ""Bachelor"" before Sellers suggested ""Playboy"". The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a"
"to the delinquency of a minor. The charges were ultimately dropped on the grounds that Hefner in all likelihood did not know the girl's true age. Roberts eventually became a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club. Her centerfold can be seen in animated form in Ralph Bakshi's film ""American Pop"". Elizabeth Ann Roberts Elizabeth Ann Roberts (born August 4, 1941) is an American model. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arthur James and Mike Shea. Elizabeth's pictorial was a significant one in the history of ""Playboy"" because she"
"and has partnered with actor Brian Cox. Marilyn Cole Marilyn Cole (born 5 July 1949) is ""Playboy"" magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month. She was the magazine's first full-frontal nude centerfold. She also became 1973's Playmate of the Year – the only Briton to hold that title. Her original pictorial was photographed by Alexas Urba. Cole worked at a Post Office punched card unit in Portsmouth Central Telephone Exchange, before working for £12 weekly at the Portsmouth Co-op Fuel Office when she was interviewed to be a Playboy Bunny at the London Playboy Club. She worked as a bunny"
"issue of ""Playboy"" into a bribe to meet a girl. In 1963, Hugh Hefner unexpectedly noticed photographs that Bill Kobrin had taken of Jayne Mansfield and asked him to shoot her centerfold for Playboy. In June of that year, photos in which she appeared naked on the set of the film ""Promises! Promises!"" were used in a series of photographs that were published in a ""Playboy"" pictorial (titled ""The Nudest Jayne Mansfield""). The pictorial was printed with a description that went, ""enjoying the luxuries of a bubble bath and a double bed"". It included pictures that shows Mansfield staring at"
"""Playboy"" magazine began a yearlong nationwide Great Playmate Hunt for its 25th-anniversary publication. Candy was working in a dress shop and as a waitress when she saw the ad in the paper. At the urging of her then husband, Candy entered the contest and photographer Dwight Hooker shot the test photos of her. Seven months later the 22-year-old college student beat out more than 3,500 other models with her natural beauty, girl-next-door looks and name that seemed almost fabricated for a playmate. Her centerfold came out in the January 1979 issue. That year, she took advantage of her celebrity status"
"General compilations Anniversary collections Interview compilations Official Others Playboy Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), ""Playboy"" played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of ""Playboy"" are published"
"Chicago, Illinois, in April 2012. In January 2013, the company said it employed 165. Playboy Enterprises was created in 1953 as the ""HMH Publishing Co., Inc."" for the purpose of publishing ""Playboy"". The business quickly expanded and began to develop and distribute a wider range of adult entertainment. It went public in 1971. Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, was the President from 1982, Chairman of the Board and CEO from 1988, until she left the company in 2009. In late 2015, it was announced that the print edition of the magazine would drop all centerfolds. The first magazine without"
"Playboy Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), ""Playboy"" played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of ""Playboy"" are published worldwide. The magazine has a long history of"
"Marilyn Cole Marilyn Cole (born 5 July 1949) is ""Playboy"" magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month. She was the magazine's first full-frontal nude centerfold. She also became 1973's Playmate of the Year – the only Briton to hold that title. Her original pictorial was photographed by Alexas Urba. Cole worked at a Post Office punched card unit in Portsmouth Central Telephone Exchange, before working for £12 weekly at the Portsmouth Co-op Fuel Office when she was interviewed to be a Playboy Bunny at the London Playboy Club. She worked as a bunny from 1971 to 1974, and within a"
"feature reporter for the Playboy Channel. She died at age 49 in December 2012 due to a brain tumor. Lynda Wiesmeier Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (pronounced WEES-myer, May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012) was an American model and actress. She made her debut film in ""American Pop"". Wiesmeier was selected as both cover model and Playmate of the Month for the July 1982 issue of ""Playboy"" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Wiesmeier also appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, and worked steadily for ""Playboy"" for more than five years after she graced the"
"later pictorials and centerfolds, but it was not until January 1971 when Liv Lindeland showed clearly visible pubic hair in her pictorial. The first Playmate to clearly have the first full frontal nude centerfold was Miss January 1972, Marilyn Cole. Both went on to become Playmate of the Year, respectively 1972 and 1973. When ""Hustler"" was launched in 1974, it outdid both ""Playboy"" and ""Penthouse"" in explicitness by showing more graphic photos of the female sex organs. Eventually, the two magazines moved their content in opposite directions. ""Playboy"" positioned itself as the less explicit softcore alternative to be ""read for"
"calendar rather than for ""Playboy"". Hefner chose what he deemed the ""sexiest"" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success. The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53,991. The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", by Ray Bradbury,"
"eventual ""Playboy"" model KC Winkler. Johnson attended the 40th Anniversary convention for the ""Halloween"" franchise in Pasadena, California, from October 12-14, 2018. Sandy Johnson Sandy Johnson (born July 7, 1954) is an American model and actress. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the June 1974 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. (A cropped image from this centerfold was used as a top-sheet graphic for the Burton Love 52 snowboard in 2008). Johnson was born into a family that included four older sisters in San Antonio, Texas. After she appeared in ""Playboy"" Johnson went into acting."
"live cheetahs. Yeager was a very prolific and successful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so, that her work was described as ubiquitous in that era. She continued to work extensively with ""Playboy"" shooting eight centerfolds in addition to covers and pictorial spreads. She discovered Lisa Winters, the first Playmate of the Year. Yeager also appeared in the magazine as a model five times. One appearance with the headline, ""Queen of the Playboy Centerfolds"", was photographed by Hugh Hefner. Her work was also published in mainstream magazines including ""Cosmopolitan"", ""Esquire"", ""Pageant"", ""Redbook"" and ""Women's Wear Daily"". The"
"centerfold in the January 1955 issue of the two-year-old magazine. The famous photo shows Page, wearing only a Santa hat, kneeling before a Christmas tree holding an ornament and playfully winking at the camera. In 1955, Page won the title ""Miss Pinup Girl of the World"". She also became known as ""The Queen of Curves"" and ""The Dark Angel"". While pin-up and glamour models frequently have careers measured in months, Page was in demand for several years, continuing to model until 1957. Although she frequently posed nude, she never appeared in scenes with explicit sexual content. In 1957, Page gave"
"on the cover and as centerfold in the first issue of ""Playboy"". The cover image was a photograph taken of her at the Miss America Pageant parade in 1952, and the centerfold featured one of her 1949 nude photographs. Although Monroe had become one of 20th Century-Fox's biggest stars, her contract had not changed since 1950, meaning that she was paid far less than other stars of her stature and could not choose her projects or co-workers. She was also tired of being typecast, and her attempts to appear in films other than comedies or musicals had been thwarted by"
"Elizabeth Ann Roberts Elizabeth Ann Roberts (born August 4, 1941) is an American model. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arthur James and Mike Shea. Elizabeth's pictorial was a significant one in the history of ""Playboy"" because she was only 16 at the time her photos were taken. She had arrived at the Playboy studio with her mother, who provided a written statement that she was 18. After it came out that Roberts was underage, Hefner was brought before a domestic relations court on a charge of contributing"
"centerfold, selling nearly 200,000 copies. In 1982 Packer sold the rights to Mason Stewart Publishing, publishers of surfing magazine, ""Trax"", and rock music magazine, ""RAM"". Sales settled at around 140,000. The biggest selling edition of ""Australian Playboy"" was the October 1995 issue with Dannii Minogue on the cover and Cynthia Brown as the centerfold. By 1996 sales of the magazine had fallen to 36,000 and in 1997 Mason Stewart Publishing was taken over by British publisher EMAP International Limited, with Philip Mason becoming non-executive chairman of EMAP Australia. Playboy was not sold in the state of Queensland during 2004 and"
"centerfold), Marilyn Lange (both her Playmate of the Month and Playmate of the Year layouts for May 1974 and June 1975 issues respectively) and Jill De Vries (the first Playmate with signed centerfold). He also photographed Playmate and Playboy bunny Barbi Benton (actress and singer who was Hugh Hefner's girlfriend) and Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Alan Alda. Hooker mentored other Playboy photographers including Stephen Wayda. He shot the cover for the first paperback edition of ""Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words"" (1974), with model Mercy Rooney. He is reported to have the record number of rejections for a Playboy"
"Hefner founded Playboy, a magazine which aimed to target males between the ages of 21 and 45. The coverpage and nude centerfold in the first edition featured Marilyn Monroe, then a rising sex symbol. The pictures were taken when Monroe was an unknown struggling actress and she received $50 for the photo shoot. The photographs were published without her consent and she received no further compensation from Playboy. Featuring cartoons, interviews, short fiction, Hefner ""Playboy Philosophy"" and - most crucially - half-naked female ""Playmates"" posing provocatively, the magazine became immensely successful. In 1960, Hefner decided to expand his enterprise and"
"faked or doctored, the media is classified as simulated child pornography. There has likely been interest in nude images of celebrities for as long as artistic nude imagery and pornography has existed. One of the more famous examples is ""Playboy""'s inaugural December 1953 issue that featured photos of Marilyn Monroe from a 1949 photo session as its first ""Playmate of the Month"". The commercialization, promotion, and organized supply of nude celebrity images can be traced to another men's magazine, ""High Society"", and the efforts of its first female Editor, Gloria Leonard. This began as a feature that showcased risqué photos"
"Hugh Hefner Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher and life-stylist. He was founder and editor-in-chief of ""Playboy"" magazine, a revolutionary publication, aimed at a sophisticated young readership, with revealing glamour photographs and sensational articles provoking charges of obscenity. The first issue, in 1953, featuring Marilyn Monroe in her nude calendar shoot, sold over 50,000 copies. Hefner extended the brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs, as well as his own luxury mansions where the Playboy ‘playmates’ shared his wild partying life, keenly reported in the media. An advocate of sexual"
"Jennifer Lavoie Jennifer J. Lavoie (born February 25, 1971 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. She was selected as ""Playboy""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Playmate of the Month for August 1993, and she appeared on the cover of the October 1994 issue of the magazine. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Lavoie has appeared in several ""Playboy"" videos and special editions, working steadily for ""Playboy"" for more than seven years following her centerfold appearance. Lavoie was one of the original members of the Playboy Xtreme Team, a group of Playmates who competed in extreme adventure racing. She was"
"husband, television writer and producer, Robert Foshko. Marian Stafford Marian Stafford (February 7, 1931 – August 16, 1984) was an American actress and model. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ruth Sondak, and was the first to consist of three pages. In addition to posing for other men's magazines in the decade, Stafford became a popular personality during the so-called ""Golden Age"" of television. She was a regular on game shows such as ""Treasure Hunt"" and ""The $64,000 Question"". Stafford died on August 16, 1984, at the age"
"2005 but returned as of 2006. Due to declining sales, (circulation - 25,000), the last issue was January 2000, which featured Elina Giani on the cover and Jodi Ann Paterson as the centerfold. Notable Australian celebrities who have appeared on the cover or in the magazine include: Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of ""Playboy"" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to ""Playboy"" magazine. ""Australian Playboy"" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials,"
"court decision did call it ""offensive"". Other milestones in Hooker's career include photographing the twins Madeleine and Mary Collinson (the first twin Playmates on Playboy, for cover and centerfold of the October 1970 issue), Marilyn Cole (the first Playmate to pose for a full frontal nude centerfold and the first Briton to hold the title of Playmate of the Year), Jayne Marie Mansfield (daughter of Jayne Mansfield), Candy Loving (the 25th Anniversary Playmate), Monica Tidwell (the first Playmate to be younger than Playboy), Nancy Cameron (the 20th Anniversary Playmate and the only Playmate to have a back and front double-sided"
"Lynda Wiesmeier Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (pronounced WEES-myer, May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012) was an American model and actress. She made her debut film in ""American Pop"". Wiesmeier was selected as both cover model and Playmate of the Month for the July 1982 issue of ""Playboy"" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Wiesmeier also appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, and worked steadily for ""Playboy"" for more than five years after she graced the magazine's fold-out page, first as a nude glamour and pin-up model, and then as a promotional model and a"
"of five."" The Greenleaf Publishing Company initially published science fiction magazines and a spectrum of similar publications, and it was not until November 1955 that Greenleaf published the first issue of ""Rogue"" (although it had a cover date of December), a magazine which was competitive with ""Playboy"", a magazine dealing with sex which had been published for about two years at this time. In 1953, as a solo and unidentified effort, Hugh Hefner's ""Playboy"" V1#1 appeared without a date late in the year [November]. It was an almost immediate success with that wonderful calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe being reused"
"Jennifer Jackson (model) Jennifer Jackson (born February 6, 1945) is an American model who was chosen as ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1965 issue. She was the first Black Playmate of the Month and was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Jackson also worked as a Playboy Bunny in a Playboy Club. In October 2017, Cooper Hefner, son of ""Playboy"" founder Hugh Hefner, announced that Ines Rau would appear as ""Playmate of the Month"" in the magazine's November/December 2017 issue, making her the first openly transgender woman to be featured this way. Hefner likened the choice to feature"
"issues out of 51 objectionable. The heavy publicity of ""Promises! Promises!"" in the July 1963 issue of ""Playboy"" and advanced blurbs on ""Playboy"" put Mansfield's name out as a major box office draw, though reviews of the film were next to disastrous. ""Playboy"" issues featuring Mansfield include February 1955 (""Playmate of the Month""), February 1956, February 1957, February 1958, December 1958, February 1960 (""The best of Jayne Mansfield""), June 1963 (the issue that had Hugh Hefner arrested), Annual 1964 (first issue of ""The best of Playboy""), December 1965, Newsstand Special 1989 (""100 Beautiful Women""), January 1994 and Newsstand Special 1999"
"was published in 1953 and serialized in the March, April and May 1954 issues of ""Playboy"". An urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979 (except for a six-month gap in 1976), the ""P"" in ""Playboy"" had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the number of times that Hefner had slept with her, or how good she was in bed. The"
"of the magazine, ""Playgirl"" has featured male frontal nudity except for the early issues in 1973, and 1987 when John Paul became the year's first full frontal centerfold in November after ten months of non-nude photo spreads. Apart from professional models, ""Playgirl"" features amateur models in a section called ""Real Men"" (formerly known as ""Snapshots""). A Real Men of the Year contest is held, in which readers can vote for the best layout of the year. In June of every year, ""Playgirl"" has its ""Man of the Year"" issue. In July, it is the ""Country"" issue and in November, ""Playgirl"""
"Marian Stafford Marian Stafford (February 7, 1931 – August 16, 1984) was an American actress and model. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ruth Sondak, and was the first to consist of three pages. In addition to posing for other men's magazines in the decade, Stafford became a popular personality during the so-called ""Golden Age"" of television. She was a regular on game shows such as ""Treasure Hunt"" and ""The $64,000 Question"". Stafford died on August 16, 1984, at the age of 53. She was survived by her"