List of Playboy Playmates of 1965

The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1965. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Sally Duberson (born October 23, 1942 in New York City)^[1] is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.^[1]

February

Jessica St. George (born October 13, 1946 in Los Angeles, California)^[2] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.^[2]

March

Jennifer Jackson (born February 6, 1945) is an American model who was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the month for its March 1965 issue.^[3] She was the first Black Playmate of the Month, and she was photographed by Pompeo Posar.^[3]

April

Sue Williams (November 14, 1945 – September 2, 1969) was an American actress and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William V. Figge.

Born Karen Susan Hamilton in Glendale, California, she began her career in modeling shortly after graduating from high school. After a photographer sent in pictures he had taken of her to Playboy, she was chosen for a layout in the magazine, posing under the name Sue Williams.^[4] She was the first Playmate to get breast implants,^[5] and at 4'11, one of the shortest women to appear as a Playmate in Playboy (with Karla Conway, April 1966, being the other).

After appearing in Playboy, she began acting in various films and television. She appeared in several Beach Party films, including How to Stuff a Wild Bikini under the name Sue Hamilton.

Williams committed suicide on September 2, 1969. She is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Some sources claim that this is not true and is a case of mistaken identity as are more details presented on this wikipage. See amongst others the lined page stated above. ^[4]

Filmography

May

Maria McBane (born 8 February 1946 in Avignon, France) is a French American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William Figge.

McBane grew up in Spain and Cuba, and moved to the United States as an adult. She appeared in one film, Fireball 500 (1966) playing the part of "Leander Fan". In this film, her credit appeared as Marie McBane.

McBane now lives in Hawaii. According to The Playmate Book, by 1996 she was seriously considering a run for the Hawaii legislature, prompted in part by her and her husband losing their restaurant in a land dispute.

June

Hedy Scott (born 24 January 1946) is a Belgian-American model and actress. Scott was born in Jodoigne, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium and later became an American citizen.

Scott became Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel. She went on to have a brief acting career, appearing in Fireball 500 (1966) ^[6] and an episode of The Munsters.

Film and television work

• Fireball 500 (1966) .... Leander Fan
• The Munsters (1966) .... 2nd Girl

July

Gay Collier (born October 9, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana)^[7] is an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.^[7]

August

Lannie Balcom (March 17, 1941 – April 25, 1991) was the stage name for Linda K. Balcom, an American model and actress born in Clarkdale, Arizona. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by J. Barry O'Rourke. She was also a Playboy Bunny at the Chicago club.^[8]

Balcom died on 25 April 1991, and her cause of her death was not disclosed.

September

Patti Reynolds (born May 28, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1965 issue (at the age of 17). Her centerfold was photographed by Stan Malinowski. She also appears in a photograph on page 56 dated 1960 (along with Ashlyn Martin and two other bunnies) in The Bunny Years by Kathryn Leigh Scott, for which she also wrote a short bio of herself.

In January 1966 Patti was subpoenaed by a Federal grand jury investigating the crime syndicate in Chicago. Also subpoenaed were reputed underworld figures Fiori (Fifi) Buccieri, 59, and Charles (Chuckie) English, 52. Reynolds was identified by Federal authorities as an intimate friend of Frank (the Horse) Buccieri, 52, the brother of Fiori.^[9]

October

Allison Parks (born Gloria Waldron October 18, 1943)^[10] is an American model and actress. She is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for October, 1965 and Playmate of the Year for 1966. Her original pictorial was photographed by William Figge.^[10]

"Allison Parks" was a pseudonym that she used when she modeled for Playboy, but she told The Playmate Book that she liked it so much, she kept using it all the time.

After her Playmate work, Parks went on to a long career as a model and actress, mostly in TV commercials. She also worked for an investment counseling firm.

November

Pat Russo (born October 5, 1941 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.

December

Dinah Willis (born August 5, 1945) is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. She was also on the cover of the 1966 Playboy calendar.

References

See also

• List of people in Playboy 1960-1969