Playboy's Girls of Playboy # 1 (3rd Print)

In every field there's a standard of excellence. If one is weighing the purchase of a fine car, one thinks of Rolls-Royce. Diamonds? Tiffany. French cuisine? Those few establishments honored with the supreme three-star accolade of the "Guide Michelin." When it comes to standards in such areas as artistic taste, photographic quality and—especially—feminine beauty, a consensus is more difficult to achieve. Nevertheless, we're confident that if one posed the question "Where, over the past couple of decades, could one find the most beautiful photographic tributes to women?" the answer would overwhelmingly be, in PLAYBOY magazine.
Best-known examples are, of course, our Playmates of the Month, the girls who have graced the magazine's gatefold with each issue since our debut with the celebrated Marilyn Monroe calendar nude back in December 1953. Over the years our Misses January, February, March and their sisters have proved to be the magazine's most durably popular single feature. But, despite their preeminence, the Playmates are by no means the only beauties who have found a congenial home in our pages. For example, consider Playboy's other exclusive coterie, the Bunnies, who staff the 17 Playboy Clubs, five hotels and Hugh M. Hefner's posh DC-9 jet, the "Big Bunny." Playboy keyholders see the cottontails in person regularly; readers make their acquaintance less frequently, but memorably, in features both regional ("The Bunnies of New York," "The Bunnies of Detroit") and annual ("Bunnies of 1971," et a!.).
Then there are our cover girls: models, many of them; Bunnies and Playmates, some of them; even Playboy Building office workers—all eye-catching, each sporting somewhere a new rendition of the familiar Playboy Rabbit symbol. And we mustn't neglect our regular uncoverage of attractive actresses, both established Hollywood figures and aspiring screen hopefuls: Jane Fonda, Stella Stevens, Ursula Andress, Elke Sommer, Paula Pritchett, Paula Kelly, Brigitte Bardot—and on and on. There's nothing provincial about PLAYBOY or its readers, and, believing that the process of learning about any area of the world should ideally, and most delightfully, include some information about the local lovelies, we've instituted "Playboy's Girls of the World" features, circling the globe. Still more girls are seen in fashion layouts, as guests partying at a gourmet buffet or splashing at a yacht party.
All in all, in the past 20 years, we figure we've published nearly 10,000 pictures of women, not counting those in cartoons or paid advertising. That's an educated guess; we haven't actually counted, and, no, we're not taking applications from volunteers to do the job. We've had fun selecting the 151 pictures that appear in this book and on its cover. We think you, too, will enjoy looking them over and choosing your own personal favorites.
—the editors of PLAYBOY
Models
Claudia Jennings (cover, front)
Majken Haugedal (cover, back)
Songe Songey (not nude)
Clair Rambeau
Darine Stern
Lenna Sjooblom
Crystal Smith
Joanna Pettet
P.J Lansing
Ursula Andress
Valerie Perrine
Priscilla Wright
Elki Sommer
Angela Dorian
Heather Van Every
Fran Jeffries
Myriam Rydge
Janice Pennington
Karen and Christy Flagg
Rosie Holotik
Paula Kelly
Carole Green
Tanya Mohammed
Susan Denberg
Crystal Smith
Pauline Erich
Cato Margaretha Polman
Anne Tuchmeyer
Barbara Parkins
Bibi Andersson
Pamela Rawlings (not nude)
Allison Parks
Cherie Latimer
Rita Nielsen
Barbi Benton
Beth Hyatt
Jennie Wallace
Jenny Davis
Teresa Rietan
Cathy Rowland
Ava Faulkner (not nude)
Gwen Welles
Elaine Morton
Deanna Baker
Liz Asher
Marie Liljedahl
Marilyn Cole (not nude)
Margaret Markov
Ellen Michaels
Marie-Francoise Robinet
Anne Randall
Linda Forsythe
Sarah Kennedy
Lana Wood (Natalie's sister)
Vera Gittlieb von Lehndorff
(aka Veruschka)
Miki Garcia
Clair Rambeau
Irene Caneal
Nikki Minich
Arlene Dahl
Connie Kreski
Susan Miller
Cynthia Myers
Lorna Scoville (not nude)
Linda Summers
Linda Evans
Moran We
Chizuko Arai
Le McKay
Shai Moen
Karen Philipp
Tish Howard
Lee Wydra
Christiane Schmidtmer
Vicki Peters
Sandra Jozefski
Mary and Madeleine Collinson (twins)
Jillian Bergamo
Angel Tompkins
Marilyn Cole
Tina Aumont
Vicki Peters
Donna Michelle
Sylvia Out
Ann Smyrner
Gwen Wong
Christiane Rucker
Jeanette Larson Paula Pritchett
Paula Kelly
Karen Christy
Sherry Jackson
Liv Lindeland