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each month throughout the year.


January

Connie Cooper (born September 20, 1941) is an
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model. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its January 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Paul Morton Smith. According to ''The Playmate Book'', she also attended college courses to study real estate and later became a wife and mother.


February

Barbara Ann Lawford (born October 7, 1942) is an American
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. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its February 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by
Mario Casilli Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of t ...
. She also appeared on the cover of the September 1961 issue.


March

Tonya Crews (born Alice Crews; February 2, 1938 – August 7, 1966) was a
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American
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. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its March 1961 issue. Her
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was photographed by
Mario Casilli Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of t ...
. Crews died in an automobile accident in 1966.


April

Nancy Nielsen (born December 14, 1940) is an American
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. She was
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its April 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by
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.


May

Susan Kelly (born February 15, 1938) is an American
model A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , . Models can be divided in ...
and actress. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its May 1961 issue. Her
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was photographed by Frank Bez.


June

Heidi Becker (born October 11, 1940) is an Austrian-born model. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its June 1961 issue. Her
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was photographed by
Mario Casilli Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of t ...
. In December 1979 she again posed semi-nude for ''Playboy'' for the "Playmates Forever!" pictorial. Becker attended the
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.


July

Sheralee Conners (born December 12, 1941) is an American
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. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its July 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Crespinal and Sherman Weisburd. Conners also was the model for the unusual double-sided cover of the December 1962 issue.


August

Karen Thompson is an American
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and actress. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its August 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by
Mario Casilli Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of t ...
.


September

Christa Speck (August 1, 1942 – March 22, 2013) was a German
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. She was ''
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'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for September 1961, and the 1962 Playmate of the Year. Her original pictorial was photographed by Sam Wu. Her centerfold is seen in the 1978 film ''
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'', which takes place in 1962. Speck married TV producer
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.


October

Jean Cannon (October 5, 1941 – November 17, 2005) was an American
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. She was ''
Playboy ''Playboy'' (stylized in all caps) is an American men's Lifestyle journalism, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, available both online and in print. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, funded in part by a $ ...
'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its October 1961 issue. Her
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was photographed by Ron Vogel. She died on November 17, 2005, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Her cause of death was not disclosed, but according to ''The Playmate Book'', she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2002.


November

Dianne Danford (born August 9, 1938) is an American
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. She was ''
Playboy ''Playboy'' (stylized in all caps) is an American men's Lifestyle journalism, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, available both online and in print. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, funded in part by a $ ...
'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its November 1961 issue. Her
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was photographed by
Mario Casilli Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of t ...
. In 1966, she appeared in a horror film, '' Weekend of Fear'', directed, written and produced by Joe Danford.


December

Lynn Karrol (born July 31, 1939) is an American
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. She was ''
Playboy ''Playboy'' (stylized in all caps) is an American men's Lifestyle journalism, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, available both online and in print. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, funded in part by a $ ...
'' magazine's
Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
for its December 1961 issue. Her
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was photographed by Frank Eck.


See also

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List of people in Playboy 1960–1969 The following women have appeared in the American or international edition of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month. Those who were also named Playmate of the Year are highlighted in green. A common misconception is that Marilyn Monroe ...


References

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