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Fourth Anniversary Issue Cover Models: Lisa Winters & Linda Vargas Centerfold Model: Linda Vargas (born 1939) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Herbert Melford and Mike Shea. Vargas, who began modeling when she was a teenager, had a steady career before and after her Playmate appearance as a model and bit actress. Frequent Playboy photographer Peter Gowland used images of her in many of his instruction books.
Cover Model: unidentified model Centerfold Model: Marlene Callahan (born August 24, 1937 in Ventura, California) is an American model, actress and photographer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Vivienne Lapham.
Cover Model: unidentified model Centerfold Model: Colleen Farrington (born in 1936 in Davisboro, Georgia) is an American model and nightclub singer. She is the mother of Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane. She was also Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1957 issue. Her pictorial was photographed by Peter Basch. Before becoming a Playmate, Farrington was a fashion model in New York City and was a particular favorite of fashion designer Oleg Cassini. She eventually married acting coach Burt Lane and divorced him in 1965, shortly after her daughter Diane was born. She later settled in Georgia.
Cover and Centerfold Model: Jacquelyn Prescott (born c. 1936 in Redlands, California) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casili, the first Playmate of his long career with Playboy.
Cover & Centerfold Model: Dolores Donlon is the pseudonym of Patricia Vaniver (born September 19, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), who is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. Donlon had a busy life before becoming a Playmate - she attended a French convent school in New York State, became a successful model in New York City, was a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and had married twice before she appeared in Playboy. Donlon also posed for several other men's magazines, as well as the cover of Life magazine. Some of her acting and modeling work was done under the name Pat Van Iver. [edit]
Cover Model: Dawn Richards Centerfold Model: Jean Jani (born October 31, 1931 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. In a newer edition of The Playmate Book, Jani says she had totally forgotten about her Playboy work until her grown daughter presented her with a copy of the book's first edition, complete with pictures of herself. Since then, Jani has returned to the Playboy fold by attending some convention events.
Cover Model: None/ Rabbit Head cufflinks Centerfold Model: Carrie Radison (born November 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the June 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Desmond Russell. At the time of her centerfold, Radison was attempting to launch a Broadway career. She went on to become one of the first Bunnies at the Playboy Club.
Cover Model: None Centerfold Model: Dawn Richard (born March 5, 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and David Sutton. Richard posed for several other men's magazines during the Fifties. Her most prominent film role was as one of Pharaoh's daughters in 1956's The Ten Commandments, opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner.
Cover Model: Elaine Conte Centerfold Model: Gloria Windsor is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams.
Cover & Centerfold Model: Sandra Edwards (born March 12, 1938 in Los Angeles) is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. Her name is usually spelled Saundra Edwards. In addition to her modeling career for Playboy and other men's magazines, Edwards, who is part Cherokee, was a showgirl in Las Vegas. Her acting credits - she was a contract player at Warner Bros. - including a few films and many more television roles in shows such as Hawaiian Eye and Maverick (her Maverick episode was "Holiday at Hollow Rock" with James Garner). She retired from show business in the 1960s. Edwards married actor Tom Gilson on December 8, 1961 and had a son named Thomas S. Gilson Jr (born the same day). She separated from him in August 1962 after he became abusive, after which she moved in with her sister and brother-in-law. On October 6, 1962, Edwards killed Gilson with a shotgun blast through the heart after he broke into the house where she was staying. A coroner's jury later ruled the shooting as justifiable homicide. The scandal, however, abruptly ended her acting career.
Cover Model: Jayne Mansfield Centerfold Model: Sally Jo Todd (born June 7, 1934 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by David Sutton and Ed DeLong. Todd had a wide-reaching career as a model, and by 1956 she was dubbed "television's highest-paid model." She was among the models who appeared at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Home Show in June 1954. She also posed for several album covers and men's magazines, including Playboy, in which she first appeared in a non-nude pictorial in June 1956.Todd had a wide-reaching career as a model, and by 1956 she was dubbed "television's highest-paid model." She was among the models who appeared at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Home Show in June 1954. She also posed for several album covers and men's magazines, including Playboy, in which she first appeared in a non-nude pictorial in June 1956.
Cover Models: Marian Scott, Elsa Sorensen, Alice Denham, Rusty Fisher, Lisa Winters, Betty Blue, Marguerite Empey, Marian Stafford, Jonnie Nicely, Gloria Walker, Charlaine Karalus (Janet Pilgrim), Lynn Turner Centerfold Model: June Blair (born Margaret June Blair on October 20, 1933, in San Francisco, California[1]) is an American model and actress. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. Blair made her first television appearance in 1954. Through the rest of the decade, she took supporting roles in feature films and guest-starred in series television, including two episodes, "Performance Under Fire" and "The Dead Ringer" of the 1960-1961 syndicated western series Two Faces West. She was engaged to the singer Nino Tempo in 1957. Blair was the inspiration for his song "Looney over Juney". The next year, she broke off her engagement with Tempo and started dating Lindsay Crosby, Bing Crosby's son. Through the late 1950s, she also dated Dick Sargent, Barry Coe, Mickey Callan, and Bill Holmes, as well as other Hollywood actors. On May 21, 1961, Blair married David Nelson and joined the cast of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Ricky Nelson was the best man. She had two sons with David: Daniel Blair Nelson in 1962 and Jamie Eric Nelson in 1966. They were divorced in 1975.
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