Playboy's Girls of Playboy # 2 (1st Print)

Pinpointing the exact origin of a style—especially in the fields of fashion, art, music, literature and cinema—is often difficult. Who was first to wear the string bikini, paint in the Impressionistic style, play bluegrass, write in iambic pentameter or use a dissolve shot? Opinions vary, and the true innovator is sometimes lost in a crowd of more popular copiers.
Now ask any number of "experts" which men's magazine can take credit for consistently achieving the highest-quality photography of women. Since December 1953, when 70,000 copies of PLAYBOY first hit the newsstands with the Marilyn Monroe cover and centerspread, the answer was clear. With that issue, PLAYBOY started a revolution, not only in glamour photography but in magazine journalism and design, and ultimately in the lifestyle of an entire country.
And although, over the years, many imitators have tried to duplicate PLAYBOY'S style, they found PLAYBOY cannot be successfully copied; it is in a distinct class of its own—both innovator and popularizer—with a spirit so alive and ever-changing that the results defy imitation. The same holds true for the women who are photographed for the magazine's pages every month. The PLAYBOY woman is as impossible to duplicate as she is beautiful, for she, too, is constantly changing and growing. She is spontaneous and sexy, adventurous and alluring, fresh and fun-loving, and always happy and proud just being herself.
In The Girls of Playboy, published in 1973, we selected—out of more than 10,000 possibilities-169 photographs of girls who had appeared in the magazine and who we thought best reflected PLAYBOY's special joie de vivre. Your overwhelming response to that first collection gave us all the excuse we needed for an encore performance. So now we bring you The Girls of Playboy 2, the second in what could easily become an annual series of photo albums of the women who have made PLAYBOY the most successful and distinctive men's magazine in history. Within these pages—all in full color—you'll meet dozens of Playmates, the stars of our most popular feature—including favorites Mercy Rooney and Karen Christy and such outstanding Playmates of the Year as Claudia Jennings, Martel Cole and Cyndi Wood. There's also a representative sampling of cottontails from the nearly 1000 Bunnies who staff 17 Playboy Clubs and four hotels, including 1972 Bunny of the Year Ruthy Ross and Jet Bunny Lieko English, who also became Playmates. Other stellar attractions include young actresses like Deep Throat's Linda Lovelace and Last Tango's Maria Schneider. More established film stars such as Raquel, Ursula and Brigitte are here, too. Veruschka is one of the models represented; Fran Jeffries, one of the singers; Paula Kelly, one of the dancers. Beautiful and talented girls from Paris, Australia, Israel, Munich and other lands are well represented, too—plus writers, poets and even a circus performer.
Choose your favorites if you can. We gave up trying. We love them all.
—the editors of PLAYBOY
Models
Alyson Merkel
Liv Lindeland
Barbi Benton
Janice Pennington
Karen Christy
Linda Lovelace
Paula Pritchett
Claudia Jennings
Bonnie Large
Martha Smith
Tina Aumont
Connie Turner
Susan Clark
Linda Evans
Marissa Delgado
Carol Imhof
Norma Wickliff
Danielle de Vabre
Phyllis Coleman
Cherie Latimer
Marilyn Cole
Tina Cristiana
Anita Pallenberg
Ursula Andress
Lana Wood
Lieko English
Karen Christy
Sue Huggy
Carol Willis
Brigitte Bardot
Julie Woodson
Victoria Principal
Anulka Dziubinska
Shelley Smith with Clint Eastwood
Angel Tompkins
Marion van Renssen
Alexas Urba
Carol O'Neal
Barbara Leigh
Jennifer Liano
Debbie Hanlon
Terri Striebel
Nicole Cisar
Brenda Honey
Celine Lafreniere
Ellen Michaels
Debbie Davis
Susie Bright
Bonnie Larger
Anne Randall
Simone Hammerstrand
Kiev Chinh
Sandra Viva
Vera Gottlieb von Lehndorff (aka Veruschka)
Miki Garcia
Cynthia Myers
Irit Lavi
Betty Ortega
Janice Shilinsky
Sally Sheffield
Eva Garden
Shay Knuth
Ruthy Ross
Sarah Stephane
Cathy Rowland
Vicki Peters
Donna Michelle
Sylvan Sylva Koscina
Raquel Welch
Evelyn Wilczek
Claire Rambeau
Fran Jeffries
P.J. Lansing
Victoria Vetri
Christine Maddox
Marlene Appelt
Toby Ostreicher
Sheila Ryan
Elke Sommer
Kacey Cobb
Virginie des Rieux
Marie-Ange Agnese
Debbie Shelton
Geri Glass
Susanne Benton
Connie Kreski
Willy Rey
Lenna Sjooblom
Ann Randall
Joanna Cameron
Jan Seratt
Cyndi Wood
Mercy Rooney
Donna Gillette
Reagan Wilson
Mei Mei Eskelund
Edy Williams
Monica Tidwell
Morgan Wyler
Dianna Soutar
Phyllis Babila
Chris Cranston
Maria Schneider
Paula Kelly
Leora Lapidot
Amanda Muir
Karen Christy
Sara Reynolds
Pam Sweet
Ruthy Ross
Nancy Cameron
Valerie Lane
Jennifer Liano
Heather Menzies
Gwen Wong