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Jackie Rainbow - September 1954 / Madeline Castle - October 1954
Diane Hunter - November 1954 / Terry Ryan - December 1954
Barbara Cameron - November 1955 / Lynn Turner - January 1956
Rusty Fisher - April 1956 / Marion Scott - May 1956
Gloria Walker - June 1956 / Elsa Sørensen - September 1956
Gloria Windsor - April 1957 / Carrie Radison - 1957
Jean Jani - July 1957 / Jacquelyn Prescott - September 1957
Colleen Farrington - October 1957 / Linda Vargas - December 1957
Zahra Norbo - March 1958 / Judy Lee Tomerlin - June 1958
Myrna Weber - August 1958 / Audrey Daston - March 1959
Cindy Fuller - May 1959 / Clayre Peters - August 1959
Elaine Reynolds - October 1959 / Susie Scott - February 1960
Sally Sarell - March 1960 / Elaine Paul - August 1960
Ann Davis - September 1960 / Kathy Douglas - October 1960
Carol Eden - December 1960 / Connie Cooper - January 1961
Barbara Ann Lawford - February 1961 / Tonya Crews - March 1961
Nancy Nielsen - April 1961 / Sheralee Conners - July 1961
Karen Thompson - August 1961 / Christa Speck - September 1961
Jean Cannon - October 1961 / Lynn Karrol - December 1961
Roberta Lane - April 1962 / Unne Terjesen - July 1962
Jan Roberts - August 1962 / Mickey Winters - September 1962
Laura Young - October 1962 / Avis Kimble - November 1962
June Cochran - December 1962 / Judi Monterey - January 1963
Toni Ann Thomas - February 1963 / Adrienne Moreau - March 1963
Sandra Settani - April 1963 / Phyllis Sherwood - August 1963
Terre Tucker - November 1963 / Nancy Jo Hooper - February 1964
Nancy Scott - March 1964 / Terri Kimball - May 1964
Lori Winston - June 1964 / Melba Ogle - July 1964
Rosemarie Hillcrest - October 1964 / Kai Brendlinger - November 1964
Sally Duberson - January 1965 / Jessica St. George - February 1965
Jennifer Jackson - March 1965 / Gay Collier - July 1965
Lannie Balcom - August 1965 / Pat Russo - November 1965
Dinah Willis - December 1965 / Judy Tyler - January 1966
Melinda Windsor - February 1966 / Priscilla Wright - March 1966
Kelli Burke - June 1966 / Tish Howard - July 1966
Dianne Chandler - September 1966 / Linda Moon - October 1966
Surrey Marshe - January 1967 / Kim Farber - February 1967
Fran Gerard - March 1967 / Joey Gibson - June 1967
Heather Ryan - July 1967 / Kaya Christian - November 1967
Lynn Winchell - December 1967 / Nancy Harwood - February 1968
Michelle Hamilton - March 1968 / Gaye Rennie - April 1968
Elizabeth Jordan - May 1968 / Britt Fredriksen - June 1968
Melodye Prentiss - July 1968 / Gale Olson - August 1968
Drucilla Hart - September 1968 / Paige Young - November 1968
Leslie Bianchini - January 1969 / Lorrie Menconi - February 1969
Kathy MacDonald - March 1969 / Lorna Hopper - April 1969
Helena Antonaccio - June 1969 / Nancy McNeil - July 1969
Debbie Hooper - August 1969 / Shay Knuth - September 1969
Gloria Root - December 1969 / Jill Taylor - January 1970
Linda Forsythe - February 1970 / Christine Koren - March 1970
Barbara Hillary - April 1970 / Jennifer Liano - May 1970
Elaine Morton - June 1970 / Carol Willis - July 1970
Debbie Ellison - September 1970 / Avis Miller - November 1970
Carol Imhof - December 1970 / Willy Rey - February 1971
Heather Van Every - July 1971 / Cathleen Lynn Rowland - August 1971
Claire Rambeau - October 1971 / Danielle de Vabre - November 1971
Karen Christy - December 1971 / P.J. Lansing - February 1972
Deanna Baker - May 1972 / Debbie Davis - June 1972
Linda Summers - August 1972 / Lena Soderberg - November 1972
Phyllis Coleman - August 1973 / Geri Glass - September 1973
Valerie Lane - October 1973 / Christine Maddox - December 1973
Francine Parks - February 1974 / Marilyn Lange - May 1974
Kristine Hanson - September 1974 / Ester Cordet - October 1974
Janice Raymond - December 1974 / Bridgett Rollins - May 1975
Mesina Miller - September 1975 / Nancie Li Brandi - December 1975
Patricia McClain - May 1976 / Whitney Kaine - September 1976
Star Stowe - February 1977 / Nicki Thomas - March 1977
Virve Reid - June 1977 / Kristine Winder - October 1977
Rita Lee - November 1977 / Kathryn Morrison - May 1978
Dorothy Mays - July 1979 / Sandy Cagle - February 1980
Henriette Allais - March 1980 / Martha Thomsen - May 1980
Mardi Jacquet - October 1980 / Cathy Larmouth - June 1981
Debbie Boostrom - August 1981 / Anne-Marie Fox - February 1982
Christina Ferguson - April 1983 / Terry Nihen - December 1983
Justine Greiner - February 1984 / Suzi Schott - August 1984
Joan Bennett - January 1985 / Vanessa Hoelsher - September 2005
Regina Deutinger - April 2008 / Grace Kim - November 2008
Jennifer and Natalie Jo Campbell - December 2008 / Kelley Thompson - November 2009
Kyra Milan - March 2010 / Amy Leigh Andrews - April 2010
Shanna Marie McLaughlin - July 2010 / Francesca Frigo - August 2010
Kylie Johnson - February 2011 / Mei-Ling Lam - June 2011
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Not on IMDb:
Jackie Rainbow - September 1954 / Madeline Castle - October 1954
Diane Hunter - November 1954 / Terry Ryan - December 1954
Barbara Cameron - November 1955 / Lynn Turner - January 1956
Rusty Fisher - April 1956 / Marion Scott - May 1956
Gloria Walker - June 1956 / Elsa Sørensen - September 1956
Gloria Windsor - April 1957 / Carrie Radison - 1957
Jean Jani - July 1957 / Jacquelyn Prescott - September 1957
Colleen Farrington - October 1957 / Linda Vargas - December 1957
Zahra Norbo - March 1958 / Judy Lee Tomerlin - June 1958
Myrna Weber - August 1958 / Audrey Daston - March 1959
Cindy Fuller - May 1959 / Clayre Peters - August 1959
Elaine Reynolds - October 1959 / Susie Scott - February 1960
Sally Sarell - March 1960 / Elaine Paul - August 1960
Ann Davis - September 1960 / Kathy Douglas - October 1960
Carol Eden - December 1960 / Connie Cooper - January 1961
Barbara Ann Lawford - February 1961 / Tonya Crews - March 1961
Nancy Nielsen - April 1961 / Sheralee Conners - July 1961
Karen Thompson - August 1961 / Christa Speck - September 1961
Jean Cannon - October 1961 / Lynn Karrol - December 1961
Roberta Lane - April 1962 / Unne Terjesen - July 1962
Jan Roberts - August 1962 / Mickey Winters - September 1962
Laura Young - October 1962 / Avis Kimble - November 1962
June Cochran - December 1962 / Judi Monterey - January 1963
Toni Ann Thomas - February 1963 / Adrienne Moreau - March 1963
Sandra Settani - April 1963 / Phyllis Sherwood - August 1963
Terre Tucker - November 1963 / Nancy Jo Hooper - February 1964
Nancy Scott - March 1964 / Terri Kimball - May 1964
Lori Winston - June 1964 / Melba Ogle - July 1964
Rosemarie Hillcrest - October 1964 / Kai Brendlinger - November 1964
Sally Duberson - January 1965 / Jessica St. George - February 1965
Jennifer Jackson - March 1965 / Gay Collier - July 1965
Lannie Balcom - August 1965 / Pat Russo - November 1965
Dinah Willis - December 1965 / Judy Tyler - January 1966
Melinda Windsor - February 1966 / Priscilla Wright - March 1966
Kelli Burke - June 1966 / Tish Howard - July 1966
Dianne Chandler - September 1966 / Linda Moon - October 1966
Surrey Marshe - January 1967 / Kim Farber - February 1967
Fran Gerard - March 1967 / Joey Gibson - June 1967
Heather Ryan - July 1967 / Kaya Christian - November 1967
Lynn Winchell - December 1967 / Nancy Harwood - February 1968
Michelle Hamilton - March 1968 / Gaye Rennie - April 1968
Elizabeth Jordan - May 1968 / Britt Fredriksen - June 1968
Melodye Prentiss - July 1968 / Gale Olson - August 1968
Drucilla Hart - September 1968 / Paige Young - November 1968
Leslie Bianchini - January 1969 / Lorrie Menconi - February 1969
Kathy MacDonald - March 1969 / Lorna Hopper - April 1969
Helena Antonaccio - June 1969 / Nancy McNeil - July 1969
Debbie Hooper - August 1969 / Shay Knuth - September 1969
Gloria Root - December 1969 / Jill Taylor - January 1970
Linda Forsythe - February 1970 / Christine Koren - March 1970
Barbara Hillary - April 1970 / Jennifer Liano - May 1970
Elaine Morton - June 1970 / Carol Willis - July 1970
Debbie Ellison - September 1970 / Avis Miller - November 1970
Carol Imhof - December 1970 / Willy Rey - February 1971
Heather Van Every - July 1971 / Cathleen Lynn Rowland - August 1971
Claire Rambeau - October 1971 / Danielle de Vabre - November 1971
Karen Christy - December 1971 / P.J. Lansing - February 1972
Deanna Baker - May 1972 / Debbie Davis - June 1972
Linda Summers - August 1972 / Lena Soderberg - November 1972
Phyllis Coleman - August 1973 / Geri Glass - September 1973
Valerie Lane - October 1973 / Christine Maddox - December 1973
Francine Parks - February 1974 / Marilyn Lange - May 1974
Kristine Hanson - September 1974 / Ester Cordet - October 1974
Janice Raymond - December 1974 / Bridgett Rollins - May 1975
Mesina Miller - September 1975 / Nancie Li Brandi - December 1975
Patricia McClain - May 1976 / Whitney Kaine - September 1976
Star Stowe - February 1977 / Nicki Thomas - March 1977
Virve Reid - June 1977 / Kristine Winder - October 1977
Rita Lee - November 1977 / Kathryn Morrison - May 1978
Dorothy Mays - July 1979 / Sandy Cagle - February 1980
Henriette Allais - March 1980 / Martha Thomsen - May 1980
Mardi Jacquet - October 1980 / Cathy Larmouth - June 1981
Debbie Boostrom - August 1981 / Anne-Marie Fox - February 1982
Christina Ferguson - April 1983 / Terry Nihen - December 1983
Justine Greiner - February 1984 / Suzi Schott - August 1984
Joan Bennett - January 1985 / Vanessa Hoelsher - September 2005
Regina Deutinger - April 2008 / Grace Kim - November 2008
Jennifer and Natalie Jo Campbell - December 2008 / Kelley Thompson - November 2009
Kyra Milan - March 2010 / Amy Leigh Andrews - April 2010
Shanna Marie McLaughlin - July 2010 / Francesca Frigo - August 2010
Kylie Johnson - February 2011 / Mei-Ling Lam - June 2011
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and professional struggles within the film industry. Her life and death are still the subjects of much controversy and speculation.
She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1926. Her mother, Gladys Pearl (Monroe), was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, to American parents from Indiana and Missouri, and was a film-cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. Marilyn's biological father has been established through DNA testing as Charles Stanley Gifford, who had been born in Newport, Rhode Island, to a family with deep roots in the state. Because Gladys was mentally and financially unable to care for young Marilyn, Gladys placed her in the care of a foster family, The Bolenders. Although the Bolender family wanted to adopt Marilyn, Gladys was eventually able to stabilize her lifestyle and took Marilyn back in her care when Marilyn was 7 years old. However, shortly after regaining custody of Marilyn, Gladys had a complete mental breakdown and was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and was committed to a state mental hospital. Gladys spent the rest of her life going in and out of hospitals and rarely had contact with young Marilyn. Once Marilyn became an adult and celebrated as a film star, she paid a woman by the name of Inez Melson to look in on the institutionalized Gladys and give detailed reports of her progress. Gladys outlived her daughter, dying in 1984.
Marilyn was then taken in by Gladys' best friend Grace Goddard, who, after a series of foster homes, placed Marilyn into the Los Angeles Orphan's Home in 1935. Marilyn was traumatized by her experience there despite the Orphan's Home being an adequate living facility. Grace Goddard eventually took Marilyn back to live with her in 1937 although this stay did not last long as Grace's husband began molesting Marilyn. Marilyn went to live with Grace's Aunt Ana after this incident, although due to Aunt Ana's advanced age she could not care properly for Marilyn. Marilyn once again for the third time had to return to live with the Goddards. The Goddards planned to relocated and according to law, could not take Marilyn with them. She only had two choices: return to the orphanage or get married. Marilyn was only 16 years old.
She decided to marry a neighborhood friend named James Dougherty; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 400 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later. In 1948, Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948) in which she sang three numbers : "Every Baby Needs a Da Da Daddy", "Anyone Can Tell I Love You" and "The Ladies of the Chorus" with Adele Jergens (dubbed by Virginia Rees) and others. Joseph L. Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in All About Eve (1950) , resulting in 20th Century re-signing her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar.
When she went to a supper honoring her in the The Seven Year Itch (1955) , she arrived in a red chiffon gown borrowed from the studio (she had never owned a gown). That same year, she married and divorced baseball great Joe DiMaggio (their wedding night was spent in Paso Robles, California). After The Seven Year Itch (1955) , she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York's Actors Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller . True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned. They went to England that fall where she made The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) with Laurence Olivier , fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery followed. So had an affair with Yves Montand . Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961) , written for her by departing husband Miller, was interrupted by exhaustion. She was dropped from the unfinished Something's Got to Give (1962) due to chronic lateness and drug dependency.
On August 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe's day began with threatening phone calls. Dr. Ralph Greenson, Marilyn's physician, came over the following day and quoted later in a document "Felt it was possible that Marilyn had felt rejected by some of the people she had been close to." Apart from being upset that her publicist slept too long, she seemed fine. Pat Newcombe, who had stayed the previous night at Marilyn's house, left in the early evening as did Greenson who had a dinner date. Marilyn was upset he couldn't stay, and around 7:30pm she telephoned him to say that her second husband's son had called her. Peter Lawford also called Marilyn, inviting her to dinner, but she declined. Lawford later said her speech was slurred. As the evening went on there were other phone calls, including one from Jose Belanos, who said he thought she sounded fine. According to the funeral directors, Marilyn died sometime between 9:30pm and 11:30pm. Her maid unable to raise her but seeing a light under her locked door, called the police shortly after midnight. She also phoned Ralph Greenson who, on arrival, could not break down the bedroom door. He eventually broke in through French windows and found Marilyn dead in bed. The coroner stated she had died from acute barbiturate poisoning, and it was a 'probable suicide' though many conspiracies would follow in the years after her death.- Buxom and shapely 5'5" brunette Margie Harrison was born on November 3, 1931 in America. Harrison has the distinction of being the first woman to model for Playboy who was designated Playmate of the Month for the January, 1954 issue of Playboy. Her photos were sold to Playboy by the John Baumgarth Company, which specialized in pin-up calendars. Moreover, Margie was also the Playmate of the Month for June, 1954. Outside of Playboy, Harrison was also featured in such men's magazines as Gala and Follies. She died at age 75 on December 23, 2006.
- Lovely, shapely and sunny blonde knockout Marilyn Ardith Waltz was born on November 5, 1931 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Marilyn was a Playmate of the Month in the February 1954, April 1954, and April 1955 issues of "Playboy." Waltz used the alias Margaret Scott for her first "Playboy" pictorial; "Playboy" publisher Hugh Hefner didn't know Waltz had posed for "Playboy" as Margaret Scott until 1996 when he was looking at photographs for the 1996 publication "The Playmate Book." Moreover, she holds the distinction of being the first of two women to be a three-time centerfold girl in "Playboy" magazine. Marilyn also appeared in several other men's magazines in the 50s. Outside of modeling, Waltz was also a singer and TV commercial actress. Her sole movie acting gig was in the obscure 1954 feature "Love Me Madly." Marilyn married Breck Jordan on January 16, 1958; the couple had two children and three grandchildren. Waltz owned a successful real estate firm in Southern California. In 1993 she moved to Oregon and worked in another real estate firm in Medford, Oregon before eventually retiring in 1996. Marilyn Waltz died at age 75 on December 23, 2006 in Medford, Oregon.
- Dolores Del Monte was born on 15 March 1932 in Spokane, Washington, USA. She was married to Al Mack and Roy Card. She died on 11 February 2023 in Laguna Woods, California, USA.
- Lovely, shapely and sunny blonde knockout Marilyn Ardith Waltz was born on November 5, 1931 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Marilyn was a Playmate of the Month in the February 1954, April 1954, and April 1955 issues of "Playboy." Waltz used the alias Margaret Scott for her first "Playboy" pictorial; "Playboy" publisher Hugh Hefner didn't know Waltz had posed for "Playboy" as Margaret Scott until 1996 when he was looking at photographs for the 1996 publication "The Playmate Book." Moreover, she holds the distinction of being the first of two women to be a three-time centerfold girl in "Playboy" magazine. Marilyn also appeared in several other men's magazines in the 50s. Outside of modeling, Waltz was also a singer and TV commercial actress. Her sole movie acting gig was in the obscure 1954 feature "Love Me Madly." Marilyn married Breck Jordan on January 16, 1958; the couple had two children and three grandchildren. Waltz owned a successful real estate firm in Southern California. In 1993 she moved to Oregon and worked in another real estate firm in Medford, Oregon before eventually retiring in 1996. Marilyn Waltz died at age 75 on December 23, 2006 in Medford, Oregon.
- Gloria Victor was born on 1 April 1931 in Fullerton, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962), Girl Gang (1954) and Daddy-O (1958). She is married to Arnold H. Gold.
- Buxom and shapely 5'5" brunette Margie Harrison was born on November 3, 1931 in America. Harrison has the distinction of being the first woman to model for Playboy who was designated Playmate of the Month for the January, 1954 issue of Playboy. Her photos were sold to Playboy by the John Baumgarth Company, which specialized in pin-up calendars. Moreover, Margie was also the Playmate of the Month for June, 1954. Outside of Playboy, Harrison was also featured in such men's magazines as Gala and Follies. She died at age 75 on December 23, 2006.
- Neva Gilbert was born on 1 September 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Combat Squad (1953). She died on 12 November 2022 in Lake Worth, Florida, USA.
- Arline Hunter was born on 16 December 1931 in Caldwell, Idaho, USA. She was an actress, known for Big Daddy (1969), The Angry Red Planet (1959) and White Lightnin' Road (1967). She was married to Wolfgang Wergin. She died on 11 September 2018 in San Pedro, California, USA.
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Bettie Page's life was filled with cult myth, mystery and sadness. Her image captured the imagination of a generation with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality, during an era of strong sexual repression. She was the quintessential pin-up, tacked up on walls in military barracks and garages; five decades later, some feminists still hail her as a pioneer of women's liberation. It has been estimated that over 20,000 photographs of Bettie were taken, and new generations of fans still buy copies by the thousands. Born in Nashville, Tennessee to a part-Cherokee mother, she grew up in a family so poor "we were lucky to get an orange in our Christmas stockings." The family included three boys and three girls, and Page later said her father molested most of the girls. He eventually stole a police car for a cross-country trip, was caught and sent to prison, and for a time Bettie resided in an orphanage. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old.
In her teens, Bettie acted in high school plays and was a straight-A student. She graduated from the Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville on a Daughters of the American Revolution scholarship in 1944, and went on to study drama in New York City. Her notorious career began one day in October 1950, while on a break from her job as a secretary in a New York office. On a walk along the beach at Coney Island, an amateur photographer admired the 27-year-old's curvaceous body and asked her to pose. Nudity didn't bother her, she said, likening it to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Her modeling career took off, and she was the centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine.
In 1951, Bettie fell under the influence of Irving Klaw, a photographer. He cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her trademark, and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She also appeared as a performer in over 50 burlesque films. Her photos and films were publicly denounced by civic and religious leaders as "perversion", and Klaw was later arrested for "conspiracy to distribute obscene material" through the United States mail. Bettie was called to testify in a private session. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, her home state, even launched a congressional investigation against her. Believing that her days as a pin-up were over, Bettie retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents. Her early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce; she moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, but that marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.
In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian. After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down. Instead, she worked full-time for evangelist Billy Graham's ministry. However, a move to Southern California in 1979 brought her more troubles. She was arrested after an altercation with her landlady. Doctors diagnosed her as suffering from acute schizophrenia, and she spent 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino and she was subsequently placed under state supervision for eight years.
Her mysterious disappearance from the public eye only fueled the public's fascination. In fact, for two decades no one was sure where she was or even if she was still alive. She resurfaced in the 1990s after being tracked down for a documentary. She occasionally granted interviews and sold autographs, but refused to allow her picture to be taken in her old age. In a 1993 telephone interview, she told a reporter that she was "penniless and infamous." She later hired a law firm to help her recoup some of the profits being made with her likeness. She spent her final years residing in Los Angeles with her brother.
After a three-week battle with pneumonia, Bettie Page suffered a deadly heart attack at age 85 on December 11, 2008.- Actress
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One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Peers) and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where she spent a portion of her childhood. Her parents were both born with the same surname, and her ancestry was seven eighths English and Cornish and one eighth German. She was reportedly a talented pianist and played the violin when she was young.
Tragedy struck when Jayne was three, when her father suddenly died of a heart attack. Three years later, her mother remarried and she and her mother moved to Dallas, Texas, buying a small home where she had violin concerts in the driveway of their home. Her IQ was reportedly 163, and she attended the University of Dallas and participated in little-theater productions. In 1949, at the age of 16, she married a man five years her senior named Paul Mansfield. In November 1950, when Jayne was seventeen, their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield was born. The union ended in divorce but she kept the surname Mansfield as a good surname for an actress.
After some productions there and elsewhere, Jayne decided to go to Hollywood. Her first film was a bit role as a cigarette girl in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). Although the roles in the beginning were not much, she was successful in gaining those roles because of her ample physical attributes which placed her in two other films that year, Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) and Illegal (1955). Her breakout role came the next year with a featured part in The Burglar (1957). By the time she portrayed Rita Marlowe in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) and Playgirl After Dark (1960), Jayne was now known as the poor man's Marilyn Monroe. She did not get the plum roles that Marilyn got in her productions. Instead, her films were more of a showcase for her body more than anything else. She did have a real talent for acting, but the movie executives insisted she stay in her dumb blonde stereotype roles. By the 1960s, her career had options that grew lower. She made somewhat embarrassing guest appearances like on the popular game show What's My Line? (1950), she appeared on the show four times in 1956, 1957, 1964, and 1966 and many other 1950s and 1960s game shows. By 1962, she was dropped from 20th Century Fox and the rest of her career had smaller options like being in B movies and low budget movies or performing at food stores or small nightclubs.
While traveling from a nightclub in Biloxi, Mississippi and 30 miles from New Orleans to where she was to be on television the following day, she was killed instantly on Highway 90 in Slidell, Louisiana in a car crash in the early hours of June 29, 1967, when the car in which she was riding slammed into the back of a semi-tractor trailer truck that had stopped due to a truck in front of the tractor trailer that was spraying for bugs. Her car went under the truck at nearly 80 miles per hour. Her boyfriend Samuel Brody and their driver Ronnie Harrison, were also killed. The damage to the car was so bad that the engine was twisted sideways. She was not, however, decapitated, as had long been misreported. She was 34 years old.
Mansfield's funeral was on July 3, 1967 and hundreds of people lined the main street of Pen Argyl for Mansfield's funeral, a small private ceremony at Fairview Cemetery in Plainfield (outside Pen Argyl), Pennsylvania (where her father was also buried), attended by her family. The only ex-husband to attend was Mickey Hargitay. Her final film, Single Room Furnished (1966), was released the following year. In 2000, Mansfield's 97 year old mother, Mrs. Vera Peers, was interred alongside Mansfield.
After Mansfield's death, Mansfield's mother, as well as her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay, William Pigue (legal guardian for her daughter, Jayne Marie), Charles Goldring (Mansfield's business manager), and Bernard B. Cohen and Jerome Webber (both administrators of the estate) all filed unsuccessful suits to gain control of her estate, which was initially estimated at $600,000 ($3,712,000 in 2018 dollars), including the Pink Palace (estimated at $100,000 ($619,000 in 2018 dollars)), a sports car sold for $7,000 ($43,000 in 2018 dollars), her jewelry, and Sam Brody's $185,000 estate left to her in his last will ($1,145,000 in 2018 dollars).
In 1971, Beverly Brody sued the Mansfield estate for $325,000 ($2,011,000 in 2018 dollars) worth of presents and jewelry given to Mansfield by Sam Brody; the suit was settled out of court.
In 1977, Mansfield's four eldest children (Jayne Marie, Mickey, Zoltan, and Mariska) went to court to discover that some $500,000 in debt which Mansfield had incurred ($3,093,000 in 2018 dollars) and litigation had left the estate insolvent.- Lovely, shapely and sunny blonde knockout Marilyn Ardith Waltz was born on November 5, 1931 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Marilyn was a Playmate of the Month in the February 1954, April 1954, and April 1955 issues of "Playboy." Waltz used the alias Margaret Scott for her first "Playboy" pictorial; "Playboy" publisher Hugh Hefner didn't know Waltz had posed for "Playboy" as Margaret Scott until 1996 when he was looking at photographs for the 1996 publication "The Playmate Book." Moreover, she holds the distinction of being the first of two women to be a three-time centerfold girl in "Playboy" magazine. Marilyn also appeared in several other men's magazines in the 50s. Outside of modeling, Waltz was also a singer and TV commercial actress. Her sole movie acting gig was in the obscure 1954 feature "Love Me Madly." Marilyn married Breck Jordan on January 16, 1958; the couple had two children and three grandchildren. Waltz owned a successful real estate firm in Southern California. In 1993 she moved to Oregon and worked in another real estate firm in Medford, Oregon before eventually retiring in 1996. Marilyn Waltz died at age 75 on December 23, 2006 in Medford, Oregon.
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Buxom, gorgeous and curvaceous 5'2" brunette knockout Diane Webber was born Marguerite Diane Empey on July 29, 1932, in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of writer/producer Arthur Guy Empey and his wife Marguerite Andrus. Diane worked as a chorus girl and took formal ballet training. She married Joe Webber in 1955 and was discovered by the same man who discovered the young Marilyn Monroe. Webber was the Playmate of the Month in the May 1955 and February 1956 issues of "Playboy" magazine. With her lovely face and exceptionally toned, shapely and voluptuous 39C-23-37 figure, hypnotically sensual presence and large natural breasts, Diane was a popular pin-up girl of the 1950s and 1960s, doing pictorials for and/or gracing the covers of such men's magazines as "Frolic," "Escapade," "Adam," "Beau," "Jem," "Tiger," "Modern Sunbathing," "Mermaid," "Monsieur," "Fling," "American Nudist," "Rogue," "Nugget," and "Esquire." Among the noted glamor photographers she posed for are Bunny Yeager, Russ Meyer and Peter Gowland.
An avowed nudist, Diane appeared on the covers of many publications that endorsed the "naturist" lifestyle. In addition, she also was featured on the cover photos for the music albums "Sea of Dreams" by Nelson Riddle and "Jewels of the Sea" by Les Baxter. Diane acted in a handful of films and TV shows/ She portrayed a mermaid in both the nudie-cutie feature Mermaids of Tiburon (1962) and The Mermaid (1967) episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). She appeared as herself in the obscure 1962 Russ Meyer nudie-cutie short "This Is My Body." Besides acting and modeling, Webber was also a belly dancer and dancing teacher. "The Wonderful Webbers", written by June Lange, documented the Webber's nudist lifestyle. In 1975 Diane was found guilty in a postal obscenity case, but the verdict was later overturned.
Diane Webber died at age 76 from complications following surgery for cancer on August 19, 2008, in Los Angeles, California.- Producer
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Sultry, buxom and shapely blonde looker Eve Meyer was born Evelyn Eugene Turner on December 13, 1928 in Griffin, Georgia. Eve was a popular high profile pin-up model throughout the 50s who was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1955 issue of "Playboy." Other men's magazines Meyer did pictorials for and/or graced the covers of are "Bold," "Scamp," "Caper," and "Modern Man." She often worked as a model for glamor photographer and independent adult filmmaker Russ Meyer. Eve was married to Meyer from 1952 to 1969. She made her film debut with an uncredited bit part in the 1955 feature "Artists and Models." Eve played the titular role in the Meyer movie "Eve and the Handyman." Moreover, she worked as an associate producer on such Meyer films as "Lorna," "Mudhoney," "Motor Psycho," "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," "Vixen!," "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," and "The Seven Minutes." Eve Meyer was a successful businesswoman when her life was tragically cut short at age 48 in the Tenerlife airplane disaster in the Canary Islands on March 27, 1977.- Lovely blonde Janet Pilgrim was born Charlaine Edith Karalus on June 13, 1934 in Wheaton, Illinois. Pilgrim was working in the subscription department for "Playboy" magazine when editor/publisher Hugh Hefner asked her to pose for a pictorial. Hefner choose the alias Janet Pilgrim as a spoof on puritanism. Moreover, Pilgrim's "girl next door" quality set the tone for future Playmates. Janet was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1955 issue of "Playboy." She went on to become the Playmate of the Month in the December, 1955 and October, 1956 issues of "Playboy." Pilgrim holds the distinction of being one out of two Playmates of the Month to be a three-time centerfold in the magazine. Janet Pilgrim was listed at #83 in the 1999 "Playboy" newsstand special "Sex Stars of the Century."
- Pat Lawler was born on 29 December 1929 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) and The Jimmy Durante Show (1954). She died on 21 November 2017 in Oakhurst, California, USA.
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- Jean Moorhead was born in August 1935 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress, known for The Violent Years (1956), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) and The Atomic Submarine (1959).
- Lovely blonde Janet Pilgrim was born Charlaine Edith Karalus on June 13, 1934 in Wheaton, Illinois. Pilgrim was working in the subscription department for "Playboy" magazine when editor/publisher Hugh Hefner asked her to pose for a pictorial. Hefner choose the alias Janet Pilgrim as a spoof on puritanism. Moreover, Pilgrim's "girl next door" quality set the tone for future Playmates. Janet was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1955 issue of "Playboy." She went on to become the Playmate of the Month in the December, 1955 and October, 1956 issues of "Playboy." Pilgrim holds the distinction of being one out of two Playmates of the Month to be a three-time centerfold in the magazine. Janet Pilgrim was listed at #83 in the 1999 "Playboy" newsstand special "Sex Stars of the Century."
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Buxom, gorgeous and curvaceous 5'2" brunette knockout Diane Webber was born Marguerite Diane Empey on July 29, 1932, in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of writer/producer Arthur Guy Empey and his wife Marguerite Andrus. Diane worked as a chorus girl and took formal ballet training. She married Joe Webber in 1955 and was discovered by the same man who discovered the young Marilyn Monroe. Webber was the Playmate of the Month in the May 1955 and February 1956 issues of "Playboy" magazine. With her lovely face and exceptionally toned, shapely and voluptuous 39C-23-37 figure, hypnotically sensual presence and large natural breasts, Diane was a popular pin-up girl of the 1950s and 1960s, doing pictorials for and/or gracing the covers of such men's magazines as "Frolic," "Escapade," "Adam," "Beau," "Jem," "Tiger," "Modern Sunbathing," "Mermaid," "Monsieur," "Fling," "American Nudist," "Rogue," "Nugget," and "Esquire." Among the noted glamor photographers she posed for are Bunny Yeager, Russ Meyer and Peter Gowland.
An avowed nudist, Diane appeared on the covers of many publications that endorsed the "naturist" lifestyle. In addition, she also was featured on the cover photos for the music albums "Sea of Dreams" by Nelson Riddle and "Jewels of the Sea" by Les Baxter. Diane acted in a handful of films and TV shows/ She portrayed a mermaid in both the nudie-cutie feature Mermaids of Tiburon (1962) and The Mermaid (1967) episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). She appeared as herself in the obscure 1962 Russ Meyer nudie-cutie short "This Is My Body." Besides acting and modeling, Webber was also a belly dancer and dancing teacher. "The Wonderful Webbers", written by June Lange, documented the Webber's nudist lifestyle. In 1975 Diane was found guilty in a postal obscenity case, but the verdict was later overturned.
Diane Webber died at age 76 from complications following surgery for cancer on August 19, 2008, in Los Angeles, California.- Lovely and shapely blonde bombshell Marian Stafford was born on February 7, 1931 in Houston, Texas. Marian played bassoon with the Youth Symphony in Texas and was a graduate of the University of Houston. She studied acting at the American Theatre Wing. Stafford was the Playmate of the Month in the March, 1956 issue of "Playboy;" her centerfold was the first to consist of three pages. Moreover, Marian was also featured in a few other men's magazines. In addition, Stafford was not also a regular on such 50's Golden Age television game shows as "Treasure Hunt" and "The $64,000 Question," but also appeared as a human test pattern for Max Liebman spectaculars. Her sole acting role was as the Mistress of Ceremonies in the animated fantasy comedy outing "The Big Fun Carnival." Marian died at age 53 on August 16, 1984 in Texas.
- Alice Denham was born on 21 January 1927 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Olga's House of Shame (1964), She Should Have Stayed in Bed (1963) and Olga's Girls (1964). She was married to John Brady Mueller. She died on 27 January 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Jonnie Nicely was the Playboy magazine centerfold color feature for the August, 1956 issue, and was regularly featured at celebrity and GlamourCon conventions nationwide. By 1996 she had retired from her 12-year career at Rockwell International in Palmdale, California as an electrical installation mechanic. Before that, she had worked as a seamstress and a carhop.
Her mother had died when Jonnie was two, and she was raised by her older sister after her father died four years later. Jonnie entered a convent school briefly, then headed west at sixteen and found work in modeling. Her Playboy work was the centerpiece of that career and she married three times. She met her first husband - Joel - while working as a restaurant hostess. Joel was a college athlete with an engineering degree, and was then studying law. But he suffered an emotional collapse four months after the wedding and was diagnosed with schizophrenia which saw him in and out of mental hospitals for several years. The marriage dissolved after more than five years.
At the end of her life, she lived in Lancaster, California. - Lovely blonde Janet Pilgrim was born Charlaine Edith Karalus on June 13, 1934 in Wheaton, Illinois. Pilgrim was working in the subscription department for "Playboy" magazine when editor/publisher Hugh Hefner asked her to pose for a pictorial. Hefner choose the alias Janet Pilgrim as a spoof on puritanism. Moreover, Pilgrim's "girl next door" quality set the tone for future Playmates. Janet was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1955 issue of "Playboy." She went on to become the Playmate of the Month in the December, 1955 and October, 1956 issues of "Playboy." Pilgrim holds the distinction of being one out of two Playmates of the Month to be a three-time centerfold in the magazine. Janet Pilgrim was listed at #83 in the 1999 "Playboy" newsstand special "Sex Stars of the Century."
- Fetching buxom brunette Betty Blue was born on August 14, 1931 in West Memphis, Arkansas. She worked as a showgirl at the El Rancho Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada prior to becoming the Playmate of the Month in the November 1956 issue of "Playboy." In addition to "Playboy," Betty also posed for a few other men's magazines. Betty played Pocahontas in the lightweight nudie cutie comedy romp Not Tonight Henry (1960) and had a small role in the oddball underground experimental movie Women in Revolt (1971). She also acted in several TV commercials. Blue married adult-film director/producer Harold Lime in 1957; they divorced in 1963, but remarried in 1991. Betty died of heart failure at age 69 on August 23, 2000 in Los Angeles, California.