List of Playboy Playmates of 1968
The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1968. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
[edit] January
| Connie Kreski | |
|---|---|
| Playmate of the Year | |
| 1969 | |
| Preceded by | Angela Dorian |
| Succeeded by | Claudia Jennings |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 19, 1946 Wyandotte, Michigan, United States |
| Died | March 21, 1995 (aged 48) Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Measurements | Bust: 35" Waist: 23" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in |
| Weight | 118 lb |
Connie Kreski (September 19, 1946, Wyandotte, Michigan – March 21, 1995, Beverly Hills, California), an American model and actress, was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 1968 and was Playmate of the Year for 1969. Kreski had long taffy-colored hair and blue eyes.
Kreski died of a blocked carotid artery on March 21, 1995 in Beverly Hills, California.
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[edit] February
| Nancy Harwood | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 17, 1948 Riverside, California |
| Measurements | Bust: 36 Waist: 22 Hips: 35 |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in |
| Weight | 115 lb |
Nancy Harwood (born December 17, 1948 in Riverside, California) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong. She describes herself in her Playboy.com biography page as "really inexperienced, still a virgin, in fact" at the time she posed for her centerfold.
Nancy has an older brother and an older sister. Her father was a pharmacist. She became a representative for several jewelry makers, as well as the one-time president of the Centerfold Alumni Association.
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[edit] March
| Michelle Hamilton | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Roxanna Platt December 20, 1948 Elmira, New York, United States |
| Measurements | Bust: 38" Waist: 23" Hips: 35" |
| Height | 5 ft 4.5 in |
| Weight | 110 lb |
Michelle Hamilton (born Roxanna Platt on December 20, 1948 in Elmira, New York) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1968 issue. She made a prior appearance in Playboy in the November 1967 issue in the Playboy Charter Yacht Party pictorial (starting on page 133) as "Roxanna". Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong.
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[edit] April
| Gaye Rennie | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | September 21, 1949 Los Angeles, California |
| Measurements | Bust: 35" Waist: 24" Hips: 35" |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in |
| Weight | 118 lb |
Gaye Rennie (born September 21, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong.
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[edit] May
| Elizabeth Jordan | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | January 11, 1945 Fort Myers, Florida[1] |
| Measurements | Bust: 33"[1] Waist: 21" Hips: 33" |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in[1] |
| Weight | 93 pounds (42 kg) |
Elizabeth Jordan (born January 11, 1945 in Fort Myers, Florida)[1] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.[1]
In addition to being a Playmate, Jordan was also a Bunny at the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. According to The Playmate Book, she later became the associate dean of an unnamed university in the Western United states.
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[edit] June
| Britt Fredriksen | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 October 1945 Norway |
| Measurements | Bust: 34" Waist: 21.5" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in |
| Weight | 108 lb |
Britt Fredriksen (born 1 October 1945 in Norway) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
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[edit] July
| Melodye Prentiss | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 14, 1944 Chicago, Illinois[2] |
| Died | March 3, 2009 (aged 64)[2] |
| Measurements | Bust: 34"[2] Waist: 23" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[2] |
| Weight | 100 lb (45 kg; 7.1 st) |
Melodye Prentiss (December 14, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois – March 3, 2009 in California)[2] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.[2]
Melodye was working in the Playboy editorial library when she was "discovered" by the magazine as Playmate material.[3] She studied fine art and painting at both the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Chicago.
Prentiss died on March 3, 2009 after taking medications that made her unable to breathe following knee surgery and other illnesses.
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[edit] August
| Gale Olson | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | October 27, 1947 Fort Sill, Oklahoma, U.S.[4] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36"[4] Waist: 22.5" Hips: 35" |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[4] |
| Weight | 110 lb (50 kg; 7.9 st)[4] |
Gale Olson (born October 27, 1947 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma)[4] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.
Her mother was from New Zealand, and her father was in the United States Army. Gale grew up with five brothers and three sisters.
For a time, Gale worked as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club.
Olson's daughter, Crystal McCahill, appeared on the November 9, 2008 edition of The Girls Next Door at the Hooters near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, in a radio interview with Bridget Marquardt and McCahill's tryout effort for the 55th anniversary edition of Playboy in January 2009. McCahill is the May 2009 Playmate of the Month.[5]
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[edit] September
| Dru Hart | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | November 25, 1948 San Fernando, California[6] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36"[6] Waist: 24" Hips: 35" |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in[6] |
| Weight | 122 lb |
Drucilla Hart (born November 25, 1948 in San Fernando, California)[6] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bill Figge and Mel Figge.[6] At the time of her pictorial, Hart was working as a legal secretary.
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[edit] October
| Majken Haugedal | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 March 1947 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Measurements | Bust: 34" Waist: 22" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in |
| Weight | 108 lb |
Majken Haugedal (born 26 March 1947[verification needed] in Copenhagen, Denmark) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1968 issue.[7] Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.[8]
Posar is quoted in The Playmate Book as saying that Majken and Connie Kreski were the two finalists for the title of 1969 Playmate of the Year. Kreski won the title in the long run, but Majken posed for Playboy again in the April 1984 pictorial "Playmates Forever! Part Two."
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[edit] November
| Paige Young | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | March 16, 1944 Los Angeles, United States[9] |
| Died | July 13, 1974 (aged 30)[9] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36"[9] Waist: 24" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[9] |
| Weight | 118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st) |
Paige Young (March 16, 1944 in Los Angeles – July 13, 1974 in Los Angeles)[9] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland.[9] She died on July 13, 1974 at her home in Los Angeles, of an overdose of sleeping pills.[10]
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[edit] December
| Cynthia Myers | |
|---|---|
 Photo courtesy of Cynthia Myers. |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | September 12, 1950 Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | November 4, 2011 (aged 61) |
| Measurements | Bust: 39"DD Waist: 24" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) |
| Weight | 119 lb (54 kg; 8.5 st) |
Cynthia Myers (born September 12, 1950, in Toledo, Ohio - November 4, 2011) is an American model and actress, and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1968 issue.
[edit] Career
Cynthia Myers was the first Playboy Playmate born in the 1950s when she appeared in the magazine in December 1968. The pictures were shot in June 1968[11] when she was 17 years old,[12] but it was Playboy's policy by that time to wait until a Playmate turned 18 before her pictures would be published.[13] Her pictorial was titled "Wholly Toledo!" because of Myers' hometown and large breasts. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, and quickly became a favorite of American troops in Vietnam. The centerfold appears in the 1987 film Hamburger Hill. According to Myers, she was 13 when her breasts began to develop to the size 39 DD they were when she appeared in Playboy.
After her magazine debut, Cynthia made frequent appearances on Hugh Hefner's Playboy After Dark TV series in 1969. She made an uncredited appearance in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? before taking the leading role of the sensitive lesbian rock and roll singer and bass player Casey Anderson in Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. She followed this with a supporting role in the Western, Molly and Lawless John (1972).
In 1994, it became known that Cynthia's centerfold photo (along with Angela Dorian, Reagan Wilson and Leslie Bianchini) was scanned and inserted into Apollo 12 Extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by pranksters at NASA[14] [15] .[16]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cynthia Myers |
- "Cynthia Myers' official website". http://www.cynthiamyers.com. Retrieved 2006-12-14.
- Cynthia Myers at Playboy.com
- Cynthia Myers at the Internet Movie Database
- "Cynthia Myers: retroCrush Interviews the Star of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and the #10 Playmate of the Century". retroCrush. http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2006/cynthiamyers/. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "Playmate data". http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=jordan%2C+elizabeth&limit=0. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f "Playmate data". http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=prentiss%2C+melodye&limit=0. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ "Playmate News". Playboy (Playboy) 56: 116–117. June 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Playmate listing". http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=1968&limit=0. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
- ^ "uChicago Playmate listing". http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=2009&limit=0. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Playmate data". http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=hart%2C+dru&limit=0. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Palyboy-tema: Playboys piger. B.T., 09.06.2003, KUN_FOR_KVINDER, Side 6
- ^ Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds Hugh Hefner, Dave Hickey (2008)
- ^ a b c d e f "Playmate data". http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=young%2C+paige&limit=0. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ Rollings, Grant (May 9, 2007). "Playmate data". The Sun (London). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article17643.ece. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ Cynthia Myers' official biography. Retrieved on 2001-06-18.
- ^ Randy Waage's interview with Cynthia Myers. Retrieved on 2006-10-27.
- ^ Steve Sullivan's biography of Cynthia Myers. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
- ^ Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists - Boing Boing
- ^ The Playboy Blog
- ^ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/a12.lmpcuf08.jpg
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