Playboy playmate of december 1959 Ellen Stratton

Ellen Stratton (born 9 June 1939 in Marietta, Mississippi) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its December 1959 issue. She was also the first Playmate of the Year, for 1960.

Ellen’s family worked as sharecroppers picking cotton. When she was 10, her parents decided that there was little opportunity in Mississippi and they moved to California, settling in the Los Angeles area. (Ellen has noted that at the time, Mississippi did not require children to attend school.) Her mother found work as an upholsterer.While eating lunch at a diner near her workplace, she was discovered by photographer William Graham and his wife, who asked if they could take some test shots of her. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Stratton)

Playboy playmate of november 1959 Donna Lynn

Donna Lynn (born September 21, 1936 in Walukee, Oklahoma) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its November 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Bez.

Lynn later dabbled in acting, appearing in three films. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lynn)

Playboy playmate october 1959 Elaine Reynolds

Elaine Reynolds (born September 7, 1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its October 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck.

After her Playmate appearance, Reynolds continued to work with Playboy, both as a model and as a Bunny in the Chicago and Miami Playboy Clubs. She also swam with the Water Follies and in Spain learned how to fight bulls. According to The Playmate Book, she eventually underwent breast reduction surgery. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Reynolds)

Playboy playmate of september 1959 Marianne Gaba

Marianne Gaba (born 13 November 1939 in Chicago) is an American model and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 Playboy

magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue. She was the first Playmate to fill out a Playmate Data Sheet, although this was not included in the magazine.
Gaba placed in the top fourteen in the national pageant, which was won by Mary Leona Gage (who would resign the following day amidst scandal).

She later wrote a gossip column for TV and Movie Screen magazine and pursued a film career. For a time, Gaba dated Ricky Nelson. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Gaba)

Playboy playmate of august 1959 Clayre Peters

Clayre Peters is an American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its August 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayre_Peters)

Playboy playmate of july 1959 Yvette Vickers

Yvette Vickers (born August 26, 1936 in Kansas City, Missouri) was a blond-haired, blue-eyed American actress, pin-up model, and singer.

She was the daughter of the jazz musicians Charles Vedder and his wife Iola. During her youth she traveled with her parents on the road. She decided to become a writer and took classes at UCLA in journalism. As a filler she took a class in acting and discovered she enjoyed it, so she changed her major to drama. Her first movie appearance was as Yvette Vedder in Sunset Boulevard (1950), although the role was minor and she was uncredited. In 1953 she was married to Don Prell, but they were divorced by 1957. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Vickers)

Playboy playmate of juny 1959 Marilyn Hanold

Marilyn Hanold (born 9 June 1938 in Jamaica, New York) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its June 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bruno Bernard.

Marilyn was the second of six children and is of German ancestry. Her father was a lieutenant with the New York City police.

Marilyn appeared in a number of films and television programs in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. She was married to oil tycoon Rulon Keaton Nielson from 1967 until his death in 1993. They had three children.

Today, Marilyn lives in Salt Lake City, where she is active in promoting the performing arts. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Hanold)

Playboy playmate of may 1959 Cindy Fuller

Cindy Fuller (born 13 May 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its May 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager.

Prior to being in Playboy, Cindy worked as a secretary at a Boston law firm. She later moved to Miami, where she joined the Water Follies. She also was a regular dancer at the Copacabana in New York City, and went on to become a professional artist.

Cindy claims to have been the first Jewish playmate. She is married and goes by the name Cindy Fuller Martino. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Fuller)

Playboy playmate of april 1959 Nancy Crawford

Nancy Crawford (born April 16, 1941 in Valhalla, New York) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the April 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Barbara Kerr and Justin Kerr.

According to The Playmate Book, Crawford did not go into show business but instead became a wife and mother. She currently lives in the suburbs of New York City. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Crawford)

Playboy playmate of march 1959 Audrey Daston

Audrey Daston (born in Boise, Idaho) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the March 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Lawrence Schiller. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Daston)

Playboy playmate of february 1959 Eleanor Bradley

Eleanor Bradley (born December 13, 1938 in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the February 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.

Bradley was discovered by Playboy while she was in Los Angeles to visit her sister. After the pictorial, she remained active with Playboy for several years, usually with promotional trips and the like; she also was a regular on the syndicated TV show Playboy’s Penthouse. She also posed for other men’s magazines in the early 1960s, along with her career as a mainstream model, mostly in the Midwest. She again posed topless for Playboy for the magazine’s 1979 feature “Playmates Forever!” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Bradley)

Playboy playmate of january 1959 Virginia Gordon

Virginia Gordon (born October 28, 1936 in Chaplin, West Virginia) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the January 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.

Gordon enjoyed a prolific career as a pin-up and nude model before and after her Playboy appearance. She was so prolific, in fact, that Playboy editor Hugh Hefner was compelled to establish exclusivity contracts with future Playmates that kept them from appearing nude in any non-Playboy project for two years following their Playmate pictorials.

Among Gordon’s more significant movies was 1962’s Tonight for Sure, a nudie film that was the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Gordon)

Playboy playmate of december 1958 Joyce Nizzari

Joyce Nizzari (born 20 May 1940 in The Bronx, New York) is an American model, dancer, and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its December 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Nizzari)

Playboy playmate of november 1958 Joan Staley

Joan Staley (born Joan Lynette McConchie on 20 May 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actress and model. She is perhaps best known for being Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its November 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Lawrence Schiller and Ron Vogel. According to The Playmate Book, she was pregnant at the time of her Playmate shoot.
Joan grew up in Los Angeles. Her parents encouraged her to learn to play the violin at a very young age. At six, she joined Peter Meremblum’s Junior Symphony. This led to her first film appearance, as a child violinist in The Emperor Waltz, starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.Her first marriage to TV Director Chuck Staley was brief. They were married in the late 1950s and lived in Memphis, then moved to Los Angeles. They had a daughter, Sherrye, who was born in 1959. By the ear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Staley)

Playboy playmate of october 1958 Mara Corday

Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California) is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure.

Wanting a career in films, Mara Corday came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Her physical beauty brought jobs as a photographer’s model that led to a bit part as a showgirl in the 1951 film Two Tickets to Broadway. She signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UI) contract player where she met actor Clint Eastwood with whom she would remain lifelong friends. With UI, Corday was given small roles in various B-movies and television series. In 1954 on the set of Playgirl she met actor Richard Long. Following the death of Long’s wife, the two began dating and married in 1957. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Corday)

Playboy playmate of september 1958 Teri Hope

Teri Hope (born Natalie Hope Ronson in February 1939) is an American model and actress She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the September 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Don Bronstein and Mike Shea.

Teri became a Playmate while attending Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While attending a Playboy-themed party at the Beta Sigma Rho fraternity house, chapter members proclaimed her the “Party Playmate” and submitted her photos to Playboy.

Hope went on to enjoy a modest acting career in the 1960s, including appearances in two Elvis Presley movies, 1963’s Fun in Acapulco and 1964’s Roustabout. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Hope)

Playboy playmate of august 1958 Myrna Weber

Myrna Weber (born 1938 in Florida) is an American model. She is Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its August 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Weber)

Playboy playmate of july 1958 Linné Nanette Ahlstrand

Linné Nanette Ahlstrand (born 1 July 1936 in Chicago — died 18 January 1967 (aged 30) in Pasadena, California) was an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its July 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Bez.

Linné moved to New York City from Hollywood, Ca. to pursue an acting and modeling career. She appeared in such movies as Living Venus, Beast from Haunted Cave, and in such TV Shows as Highway Patrol, and Johnny Stacatto. She returned to the Los Angeles area in September, 1965. Married on September 7, 1965, she continued to pursue an acting and modeling career before her death to cancer in Pasadena, California on January 18, 1967. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linn%C3%A9_Ahlstrand)

Playboy playmate of juny 1958 Judy Lee Tomerlin

Judy Lee Tomerlin (born in 1940) is an American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its June 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Edward Oppman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Lee_Tomerlin)

Playboy playmate of may 1958 Lari Laine

Lari Laine was the pseudonym used by Corrine Cole (born April 13, 1937 in Brentwood, California), who is an American model and actress She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the May 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.

According to The Playmate Book, Corrine used a pseudonym for her Playboy appearance because her father was considering running for Congress, and she didn’t want to disrupt those plans.

Corrine married her first husband, Jack Entratter, in 1968; they divorced a few years later. In 1972, she married Roger Heffron; they had a child and divorced in 1980. Finally, in 1990, Corrine married her third husband, director George Sidney, with whom she worked for on the 1966 film The Swinger. He passed away in 2002 after 12 years of marriage to Corinne. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lari_Laine)

Playboy playmate of april 1958 Felicia Atkins

Felicia Atkins (born c. 1937) is an Australian model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the April 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bruno Bernard and Bill Bridges.

Atkins was a showgirl at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, which is how she was discovered by Playboy. (The issue she was featured in had a Vegas theme.) She holds the record for the longest tenure in the Tropicana’s long-running Folies-Bergère revue (19 years). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Atkins)

Playboy playmate of march 1958 Zahra Norbo

Zahra Norbo (born Ragnhild Olavsson c. 1934 in Sweden) is a Swedish model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the March 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Tom Caffrey.

Norbo was Miss Sweden 1956 and a popular pin-up model in men’s magazines, but her only nude pictorial was for Playboy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra_Norbo)

Playboy playmate of february 1958 Cheryl Kubert

Cheryl Kubert was an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the February 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.

Little is known about Kubert’s life before and after her Playboy appearance. However The Playmate Book reported that Kubert died on April 25, 1989. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Kubert)

Playboy playmate of january 1958 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.^[1][2] (Her pictorial was titled “Schoolmate Playmate.”) She literally had a note from her mother giving her permission to pose, but both Hugh Hefner and Roberts’ mother were arrested and charged by Chicago authorities with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges were eventually dropped on the grounds of lack of evidence that Hefner had known her true age. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann_Roberts)