List of Playboy Playmates of 1959

{{Short description|none}} __NOTOC__ The following is a list of '''Playboy Playmates of 1959''', the 5th anniversary year of the publication. ''Playboy'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

==January== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  |image =  | imagesize = 150px | name = Virginia Gordon | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Chaplin, West Virginia, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1936|10|28}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}

| website = }} {{main|Virginia Gordon}} '''Virginia Gordon''' (born October 28, 1936, in Chaplin, West Virginia) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel. {{clear}}

==February== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate | image = | caption = | name = Eleanor Bradley | issue = | birth_place = Waukegan, Illinois, United States<ref name=febkingly /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1938|12|13}} | height = 5 ft 8{{frac|1|2}} in (1.74 m)<ref name=febkingly /> }}

'''Eleanor Bradley''' (born December 13, 1938, in Waukegan, Illinois)<ref name=febkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=bradley%2C+eleanor&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref> is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.<ref name=febkingly /> {{clear}}

==March== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = | imagesize = 150px | name = Audrey Daston | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Boise, Idaho, United States | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1936|4|25}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = | website = }}

'''Audrey Daston''' (born April 25, 1936 in Boise, Idaho) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Lawrence Schiller. {{clear}}

==April== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate | image = | imagesize = 150px | name = Nancy Crawford | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Valhalla, New York, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1941|4|16}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}} | website = }}

'''Nancy Crawford''' (born April 16, 1941, in Valhalla, New York) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Barbara and Justin Kerr. {{clear}}

==May== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  |image =  | imagesize = 150px | name = Cindy Fuller | issue = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|5|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|1|6|1938|5|13|mf=y}} | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}<ref name= "Fuller Playboy Date"/> | website = }}

'''Cindy Fuller''' (May 13, 1938 – January 6, 2020) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.<ref name= "Fuller Playboy Date"> {{cite web | last1 = Tomolson | first1 = Mark | title = Cindy Fuller | website = PLAYBOY Playmates | location = Kalamazoo, Michigan | url = http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=fuller%2C+cindy&limit=0\ | access-date = 11 December 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231211070401/http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=fuller%2C+cindy&limit=0%5C

| archive-date = 11 December 2023 | url-status = live }}</ref> She was an American model who was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager.<ref name= "Fuller Playboy Date"/> Many years later, at around the turn of the 21st century, she claimed to be the first Jewish Playmate. That means she was the first, by about seven years, before the previously presumed first one, December 1966's Susan Bernard.<ref name="Cindy's Jewish">{{cite news | last1 = Friedman | first1 = Gabe | title = 7 Jewish Playboy playmates from 62 years | url = https://www.timesofisrael.com/7-jewish-playboy-playmates-from-62-years-2/ | access-date = 11 December 2023 | work = Times of Israel | date = 28 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220522183853/https://www.timesofisrael.com/7-jewish-playboy-playmates-from-62-years-2/ | archive-date = 22 May 2022 | location = Jerusalem, Israel | url-status = live}}</ref> Fuller died on January 6, 2020, at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cindy Fuller |url=https://mypmates.club/1959/Miss-May/Cindy-Fuller |website=My P Mates |access-date=14 December 2023}}</ref> {{clear}}

==June== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = File:Marilyn Hanold as Peggy Howard.png | imagesize = 150px | name = Marilyn Hanold | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Jamaica, New York, United States<ref name=junkingly /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1938|6|9}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}<ref name=junkingly /> | website = }} {{main|Marilyn Hanold}} '''Marilyn Hanold''' (born June 9, 1938, in Jamaica, New York)<ref name=junkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=hanold%2C+marilyn&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref> is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bruno Bernard. {{clear}}

==July== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = Yvette Vickers publicity photo.jpg | caption = | imagesize = 150px | name = Yvette Vickers | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|08|26}} | death_date = {{circa}} 2010 (aged 81-82)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/playmate-found-mummified-friends-portrait-yvette-vickers/story?id=13522253|title = 'Mummified' Former Playmate Swerved Between Recluse and Storyteller|website = ABC News}}</ref> (exact date unknown; body found on April 27, 2011) | death_place = Los Angeles | height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}} | website = }} {{main|Yvette Vickers}} '''Yvette Iola Vickers''' (née '''Vedder''') (August 26, 1928 – c. 2010) was a blond-haired, blue-eyed American actress, pin-up model, and singer. In 1959 she appeared as the ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for the July issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Russ Meyer. She also appeared in several other men's magazines. {{clear}}

==August== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  |image =  | caption = | imagesize = 150px | name = Clayre Peters | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1930|9|17}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = | website = }}

'''Clayre Peters''' born September 17, 1930 in Manhattan, New York, is an American model. She is best known for being ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck. {{clear}}

==September== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  |image = Marianne Gaba 77 Sunset Strip 1960 (cropped).jpg | imagesize = 150px | name = Marianne Gaba | issue = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|11|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|5|3|1939|11|13|mf=y}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}} | website = }} {{main|Marianne Gaba}} '''Marianne Gaba''' (November 13, 1939 – May 3, 2016) was an American model, actress and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue. Marianne Gaba Starkman died from a brain tumor in Los Angeles, on May 3, 2016, at the age of 76.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marianne Gaba Starkman |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/marianne-starkman-obituary?id=16196709 |website=Legacy |access-date=14 December 2023}}</ref> {{clear}}

==October== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = | caption = | imagesize = 150px |name=Elaine Reynolds | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey<ref name=octpigs /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1939|9|7}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}<ref name=octpigs /> | website = }}

'''Elaine Reynolds''' (born September 7, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey)<ref name=octpigs>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=reynolds%2C+elaine&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 October 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck.<ref name=octpigs /> Her centerfold appears in the 1989 film ''Dead Poets Society''. {{clear}}

==November== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  |image =  | imagesize = 150px | name = Donna Lynn | issue = | birth_name = | birth_place = Walukee, Oklahoma<ref name="novkingly"/> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1936|9|21}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=3.5}}<ref name="novkingly"/> | website = }}

'''Donna Lynn''' (born September 21, 1936, in Walukee, Oklahoma)<ref name="novkingly">{{Cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=1959&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=2009-02-15}}</ref> is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Bez. {{clear}}

==December== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = | caption = | imagesize = 150px | name = Ellen Stratton | issue = | birth_name = Bonnie La Rue Nix | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|6|9|mf=y}} | birth_place = Marietta, Mississippi, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|4|26|1939|6|9|mf=y}} | death_place = Redlands, California, U.S. | height = {{height|ft=5|in=4}} | pmoy-year = 1960 | pmoy-succeeded = Linda Gamble | website = }}

'''Bonnie La Rue Miller''' (née '''Nix''', June 9, 1939 – April 26, 2016), better known as '''Ellen Stratton''', was an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1959. She also became the first "official" Playmate of the Year for 1960.<ref name=vegas>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/03/miss-march-named-2009-playmate-year-las-vegas/|title=Hugh Hefner announces Playmate of the Year in Las Vegas|date=3 May 2009 |access-date=March 12, 2010}}</ref> Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham. She also worked as a legal secretary and real estate manager.<ref name=DR>{{cite web |title=Death record for Ellen Stratton |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vMAk_D75_ARZ0Chh7qF-ZoQ7K3MW-CAO/view |access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref> Stratton died in Redlands, California, on April 26, 2016 at the age of 76.<ref name=DR/> {{clear}}

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