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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1957. ''
Playboy
''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. 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.
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'' magazine names its
Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
June Blair (born Margaret June Blair; October 20, 1933) 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
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by Hal Adams.
February
Sally Todd (born Sarah Joan Todd; June 7, 1934) is an American actress and model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by David Sutton and Ed DeLong.
March
Sandra Edwards (born March 12, 1938) is an American actress and model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by
Peter Gowland
Peter Andrew Gowland (April 3, 1916 – March 17, 2010) was a famous American glamour photographer and actor. He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades with his business par ...
.
Her name is usually spelled Saundra Edwards.
April
Gloria Windsor (born 1935) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by Hal Adams.
May
Dawn Richard (born March 5, 1936) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by Ed DeLong and David Sutton.
June
Carrie Radison (born November 1, 1938) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the June 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by Desmond Russell.
July
Jean Jani (born October 31, 1931) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by
Peter Gowland
Peter Andrew Gowland (April 3, 1916 – March 17, 2010) was a famous American glamour photographer and actor. He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades with his business par ...
.
August
Dolores Donlon (born Patricia Vaniver; September 19, 1920 – November 30, 2012) was an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by
Peter Gowland
Peter Andrew Gowland (April 3, 1916 – March 17, 2010) was a famous American glamour photographer and actor. He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades with his business par ...
.
September
Jacquelyn Prescott (born 1936) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by
Mario Casili
Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other photos, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of the Mont ...
, the first Playmate of his long career with ''Playboy''.
October
Colleen Farrington (August 5, 1936 – October 12, 2015) was an American model and
nightclub singer
A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may ...
. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by
Peter Basch
Peter Basch (September 23, 1921 – March 15, 2004) was an American magazine and glamour photographer. He was born in Berlin, lived and died in New York City. The main body of his work was produced in the fifties and sixties.
Early life
Peter Ba ...
.
Farrington died in Jupiter, Florida, at the age of 79. She is the mother of
Academy Award
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-nominated actress
Diane Lane
Diane Colleen Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at age 14 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film ''A Little Romance''.
The two films that could have catapulted her to star ...
.
November
Marlene Callahan (born August 24, 1937) is an American model, actress and photographer. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
was photographed by
Vivienne Lapham
Vivian (and variants such as Vivien and Vivienne) is a given name, and less often a surname, derived from a Latin name of the Roman Empire period, masculine ''Vivianus'' and feminine '' Viviana'', which survived into modern use because it is the ...
.
December
Linda Vargas (born April 20, 1939) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1957 issue. Her
centerfold
The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude. The term can also refer to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opp ...
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
Peter Andrew Gowland (April 3, 1916 – March 17, 2010) was a famous American glamour photographer and actor. He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades with his business par ...
used images of her in many of his instruction books.
See also
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List of people in Playboy 1953–1959
This list of people in ''Playboy'' 1953–1959 is a catalog of women and men who appeared in ''Playboy'' magazine in the years 1953 through 1959. Not all of the people featured in the magazine are pictured in the nude.
The entry in indicate ...
References
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1957-related lists
Playmates Of 1957