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List of Playboy Playmates of 1959
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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1959, the 5th anniversary year of the publication. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
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.
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February
Eleanor Bradley (born December 13, 1938, in Waukegan, Illinois)[1] 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.[1]
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March
Audrey Daston (born April 25, 1936 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.
April
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 and Justin Kerr.
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May
Cindy Fuller (May 13, 1938 – January 6, 2020) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] She was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager.[2] Many years later, at around the turn of the 21st century, she claimed to be the first Jewish Playmate. That means she was the first, by about seven years, before the previously presumed first one, December 1966's Susan Bernard.[3] Fuller died on January 6, 2020, at the age of 81.[4]
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June
Marilyn Hanold (born June 9, 1938, in Jamaica, New York)[5] 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.
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July
Yvette Iola Vickers (née Vedder) (August 26, 1928 – c. 2010) was a blond-haired, blue-eyed American actress, pin-up model, and singer. In 1959 she appeared as the Playboy Playmate of the Month for the July issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Russ Meyer. She also appeared in several other men's magazines.
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August
Clayre Peters born September 17, 1930 in Manhattan, New York, 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.
September
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Marianne Gaba (November 13, 1939 – May 3, 2016) was an American model, actress and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue. Marianne Gaba Starkman died from a brain tumor in Los Angeles, on May 3, 2016, at the age of 76.[7]
October
Elaine Reynolds (born September 7, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey)[8] 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.[8] Her centerfold appears in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society.
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November
Donna Lynn (born September 21, 1936, in Walukee, Oklahoma)[9] 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.
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December
Bonnie La Rue Miller (née Nix, June 9, 1939 – April 26, 2016), better known as Ellen Stratton, was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1959. She also became the first "official" Playmate of the Year for 1960.[10] Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham. Stratton died in California, on April 26, 2016 at the age of 76.[11]
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