List of Playboy Playmates of 1979

{{Short description|none}} __NOTOC__ The following is a list of '''Playboy Playmates of 1979''', the 25th anniversary year of the publication. ''Playboy'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. ==January== {{main|Candy Loving}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Candy Loving | issue = | birth_name = Candis Loving | birth_place = Oswego, Kansas, U.S.<ref name=pigs1 /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1956|9|4}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}}<ref name=pigs1 /> | website = }} '''Candis "Candy" Loving''' (born September 4, 1956)<ref name=pigs1>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=loving%2C+candy&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=February 5, 2010}}</ref> is an American model. She was {{italics correction|''Playboy''}}'s Playmate of the Month for the January 1979 issue, which made her Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate.<ref name=pigs1 /> Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker.<ref name=pigs1 /> {{clear}} ==February== {{main|Lee Ann Michelle}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Lee Ann Michelle | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Surrey, England<ref name=listing /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1960|3|17}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=4}}<ref name=listing /> | website = }} '''Lee Ann Michelle''' (born 17 March 1960)<ref name=listing>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=1979&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=January 11, 2010}}</ref> is an English model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.<ref name=listing /> {{clear}} ==March== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Denise McConnell | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Wiesbaden, Germany<ref name=pigs3 /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1958|12|23}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}<ref name=pigs3 /> | website = }} '''Denise McConnell''' (born December 23, 1958)<ref name=pigs3>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=mcconnell%2C+denise&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=February 7, 2010}}</ref> is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Nicholas DeSciose and Pompeo Posar.<ref name=pigs3 /> {{clear}} ==April== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Missy Cleveland | image = | imagesize = | caption = | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Jackson, Mississippi<ref name=wekinglypigs4 /> | birth_date = {{birth date|1959|12|25|mf=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2001|8|14|1959|12|25|mf=y}} (adverse reaction to prescription medication) | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=4}}<ref name=wekinglypigs4 /> | website = }} '''Amanda "Missy" Hodges Cleveland''' (December 25, 1959 – August 14, 2001)<ref name=wekinglypigs4>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=cleveland%2C+amanda+%22missy%22&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=January 29, 2010}}</ref> was an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1979 issue. Her centrefold was photographed by Mario Casilli.<ref name=wekinglypigs4 /> Cleveland was born in Jackson, Mississippi<ref name=wekinglypigs4 /> and attended Provine High School and McClure Academy.<ref name=clarion>{{cite web|url=http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0108/16/2001081607.html|title=Obituary at Clarion Ledger|access-date=January 29, 2010}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She came to the magazine's attention through its 25th Anniversary Great Playmate Hunt. Her death, which resulted from side effects of a prescription drug, occurred the year she would have reached the age of 42. She was a property manager.<ref name=clarion /> {{clear}}

==May== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Michele Drake | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = La Jolla, California, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1958|2|7}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}} | website = }} '''Michele Drake''' (born February 7, 1958) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1979 issue and a member of Playboy's vocal group, The Singing Playmates.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Meet Playboy's Little-Known Group, The Singing Playmates|url=https://www.playboy.com/read/singing-playmates-1|magazine=Playboy Magazine (Spring 2019)|date=17 May 2019|first=Steve|last=Palopoli}}</ref> {{clear}}

==June== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Louann Fernald | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, U.S.<ref name=LF>{{cite web|title=Speaking Out With Louann Fernald|url=https://www.playboy.com/read/louann-fernald|first=Louann|last=Fernald|website=Playboy|date=17 March 2020}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|10|23}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=4.5}} | website = }} '''Louann Fernald''' (born October 23, 1957) is an American lawyer and former model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1979 issue.<ref name=LF/> Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. {{clear}}

==July== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Dorothy Mays | issue = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|7|24}} | birth_place = Nuremberg, Germany | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}} | website = }} '''Dorothy Mays''' (born July 24, 1957) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. {{clear}} ==August== {{main|Dorothy Stratten}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Dorothy Stratten | image = | imagesize = | caption = | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<ref name=wekinglypigs8 /> | birth_date = {{birth date|1960|2|28}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|8|14|1960|2|28}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}}<ref name=wekinglypigs8 /> | pmoy-year = 1980 | pmoy-preceded = Monique St. Pierre | pmoy-succeeded = Terri Welles }} '''Dorothy Stratten''' (February 28, 1960 – August 14, 1980)<ref name=wekinglypigs8>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=stratten%2C+dorothy&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=January 29, 2010}}</ref> was a Canadian model and actress. Stratten found fame as the ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and subsequently Playmate of the Year for 1980.<ref name=wekinglypigs8 /> Stratten is remembered for the circumstances of her murder at age 20 by her estranged husband,<ref name="nytimes star80">{{cite news | title = SCREEN: 'STAR 80,' A SEX-SYMBOL'S LIFE AND DEATH | author = Vincent Canby | work = The New York Times | date = 1983-11-10 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E1DD1539F933A25752C1A965948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | access-date = 2008-07-22 }}</ref> an act that was the basis of two motion pictures. {{clear}}

==September== {{main|Vicki Iovine}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Vicky McCarty | issue = | birth_name = Vicki Ann McCarty | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1954|1|13}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}} | website = }} '''Vicki McCarty Iovine''' (born '''Vicki Ann McCarty'''; January 13, 1954) is an American model, writer, and lawyer. She is a former member of the board of directors of the Special Olympics, as well as a former television producer and radio talk show host. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1979 issue and was photographed by Arny Freytag. She was divorced from her first husband, record producer and founder of Interscope Records Jimmy Iovine, with whom she has four children.<ref name=huffpost>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-iovine/divorce-is-trite-but-ever_b_199805.html|title=Divorce Is Trite, But Everyone's Is Special|access-date=2009-09-09 | work=Huffington Post|first=Vicki|last=Iovine}}</ref> In May 2014, she married David Coiro.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kuT3osM00|title='Guide to Divorce' Star Lisa Edelstein Just Got Married | TODAY|access-date=15 January 2022|via=YouTube}}</ref> She has published several books pertaining to pregnancy and parenthood under the brand of Girlfriends' Guides, as well as Best Friends' Guides. {{clear}}

==October== {{main|Ursula Buchfellner}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Ursula Buchfellner | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Munich, Germany | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1961|6|8}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}} | website = }} '''Ursula Buchfellner''' (born 8 June 1961) is a German model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Weissbrich. Buchfellner also was the Playmate for the December 1977 issue of ''Playboy's'' German edition. In her later modeling and acting work, she was sometimes credited as Uschi Buchfellner, Ursula Fellner, Ulla Maris and Ursula Maris. Most of her movie roles were in European B-movies. {{clear}} ==November== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Sylvie Garant | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Montmagny, Quebec, Canada | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|9|23}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}} | website = }} '''Sylvie Garant''' (born September 23, 1957) is a Canadian model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1979 issue.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sylvie Garant|url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0027082F&R=DC-TSPA_0027082F|website=Toronto Public Library|access-date=24 August 2021}}</ref> Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.<ref>{{cite web|title=Playboy's Playback: Sylvie Garant|url=https://www.playboy.com/read/playback-sylvie-garant|website=Playboy|access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref> She served as hostess for one season of the late 1970s game show ''The $128,000 Question'' and later served as hostess on another Canadian game show, ''The Joke's on Us''.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} {{clear}}

==December== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Candace Collins | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Dupo, Illinois, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|5|26}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}} | website = https://www.candidcandace.com }} '''Candace Collins''' (born May 26, 1957) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. She was a 9-time cover girl (two US, seven international), and her February 1980 iconic "eyes" cover was chosen as Cover of the Year by Marketing Bestsellers Association.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} Collins was also a Playboy Bunny<ref>{{cite journal|date=July 2008|title=Playboy|pages=131}}</ref> at the St. Louis club and Chicago Playboy Bunny of the Year in 1976. The issue Collins appeared in was 410 pages, the largest issue ''Playboy'' ever published. Professionally, she now goes by the name Candace Jordan,<ref>{{cite news|title=Where are those Playmates now? Former cover girls return in Playboy photo project|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-playboy-centerfolds-revisited-sidewalks-kogan-ae-0604-20170603-column.html|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|first=Rick|last=Kogan|date=2 June 2017}}</ref> as a television host, popular media personality in Chicago,{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} and onetime ''Chicago Tribune'' social columnist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/chi-candace-jordan-staff-staff.html|title=Candace Jordan|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> In May 2017, at the age of 59, Collins duplicated her cover along with her cohorts Kimberley Conrad, Renee Tenison, Lisa Matthews, Cathy St. George, Charlotte Kemp, and Monique St. Pierre nearly four decades on.<ref name="Playboy Cover Retrospective Three Decades On">{{Cite web |url=https://www.boredpanda.com/playmates-recreate-covers-playboy-magazine-hugh-hefner/ |title=7 Playboy's Playmates Recreate Their Own Magazine Covers Around 30 Years Later |last=n/a |first=Iveta |website=Bored Panda |access-date=2017-12-18}}</ref> {{clear}}

==See also== * List of people in Playboy 1970–1979 ==References== {{reflist}} {{Playmates of 1979}}

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