List of Playboy Playmates of 1966

The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1966. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Judy Tyler
Personal details
Born	(1947-12-24)December 24, 1947 Los Angeles, California, United States[1]
Died	June 18, 2013 (age 65) [1] Died from complications of open heart surgery.[1]
Height	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[1]

Judy Tyler (December 24, 1947, in Los Angeles, California, – June 18, 2013)^[1] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.^[1]

Tyler went into sales following her Playboy days.

June 18, 2013, Judy died from complications of open heart surgery. She was 65 years young).^[1]

February

Melinda Windsor
Personal details
Born	Ann Brockway (1944-06-25) June 25, 1944 (age 80) Akron, Ohio
Height	5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Melinda Windsor (born June 25, 1944, in Akron, Ohio) was the pseudonym used by Ann Brockway,^[2] a 21-year-old student at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Tony Marco.^[3]

She used a pseudonym to protect her true identity. According to The Decatur Daily Review, from December 1966, she was 22 and married to Niells Hansson at the time she appeared on the cover of the January 1967 Playboy.^[2]

Windsor was photographed by Maynard Frank Wolfe for the January 1967 issue of Playboy and by Morton Tadder for the Fall 1967 issue of VIP magazine.

March

Priscilla Wright
Personal details
Born	(1943-11-20) November 20, 1943 (age 81) Santa Barbara, California, United States[4]
Height	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)[4]

Priscilla Wright (born November 20, 1943)^[4] is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.^[4]

April

Main article: Karla Conway

Karla Conway
Personal details
Born	Karla Jo Musacchia (1946-07-05) July 5, 1946 (age 78) Pasadena, California[5]
Height	4 ft 11 in (1.50 m)[5]

Karla Conway (born Karla Jo Musacchia on July 5, 1946, in Pasadena, California)^[5] was the name used by American model and artist Karla Jo Musacchia for her appearance as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Paul Morton Smith and R. Charleton Wilson.^[5]

She has started going by the name Sachi and became an artist.^[6] Due to her concern for the environment, she created a turtle logo for companies to use for bags that they make that are both biodegradable and compostable.^[6]

May

Main article: Dolly Read

Dolly Read
Personal details
Born	(1944-09-13) September 13, 1944 (age 80) Bristol, England[7]
Height	5 ft 4.5 in (1.64 m)[7]

Dolly Read (born September 13, 1944, in Bristol, England^[7]) is an English pinup model and actress. She is best remembered for her appearance in Playboy May 1966 magazine and as the lead character in the motion picture Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. She is sometimes credited as Margaret Read, Dolly Read Martin, or Dolly Martin.^[8]

In 1971, Read married American comedian Dick Martin. They divorced in 1974^[9] and were remarried in 1978 and remained married up to Dick Martin's death on May 24, 2008.^[10]

June

Main article: Kelly Burke

Kelly Burke
Personal details
Born	(1944-12-31) December 31, 1944 (age 79) Los Angeles, California
Height	5 ft 1 in (1.55 m)

Kelly Burke (born December 31, 1944) is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge.

Burke was born in Los Angeles, California.

According to The Playmate Book, Kelli was pregnant while she was shooting her Playmate centerfold. She also was (at the time) the sister-in-law of 1966 Playmate of the Year Allison Parks.

July

Tish Howard
Personal details
Born	(1946-07-04) July 4, 1946 (age 78) New York City, United States
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Tish Howard (born July 4, 1946, in New York City) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1966 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong. She was a finalist for the title of 1967's Playmate of the Year, along with Susan Denberg and the winner, Lisa Baker.

August

Main article: Susan Denberg

Susan Denberg
Personal details
Born	Dietlinde Zechner (1944-08-02) August 2, 1944 (age 80) Bad Polzin, Germany (now in Poland)
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Susan Denberg (born August 2, 1944, in Bad Polzin, Germany (now Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland)) is the stage name of an Austrian model and actress, born Dietlinde Zechner. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1966 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. She also was one of the finalists for the title of 1967's Playmate of the Year along with Tish Howard and the eventual winner, Lisa Baker.

She was married to Tony Scotti (1965–1968) (divorced).^[11] She had a son Wolfgang-Dieter in 1971; the father is of Yugoslavian descent and a second child. Now as Dietlinde Scotti, she resides in the tenth district of Vienna, Austria.[3][4]

September

Main article: Dianne Chandler

Dianne Chandler
Personal details
Born	(1946-12-31) December 31, 1946 (age 77) Oak Park, Illinois[12]
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[12]

Dianne Chandler (born December 31, 1946, in Oak Park, Illinois)^[12] is an American model who served as both a Playboy Playmate of the Month and as a Playboy Bunny. She was Miss September 1966.

Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.^[12]

October

Linda Moon
Personal details
Born	(1948-09-24) September 24, 1948 (age 76) State of Michigan[7]
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[7]

Linda Moon (born September 24, 1948, in Michigan^[7]) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham, Stan Malinowski, and Gene Trindl.

November

Lisa Baker
Playboy Playmate of the Year
1967
Preceded by	Allison Parks
Succeeded by	Angela Dorian
Personal details
Born	(1944-03-19) March 19, 1944 (age 80) Detroit, Texas
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Lisa Baker (born March 19, 1944, in Detroit, Texas) is Playboy's Playmate of the Month for November 1966, and Playmate of the Year for 1967. Her original pictorial for photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong.

She was also able to get some work on television, on The Jonathan Winters Show and as the Budweiser girl on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

She posed nude for the December 1979 Playboy pictorial "Playmates Forever!"

December

Main article: Susan Bernard

Susan Bernard
Susan Bernard circa 1965.
Personal details
Born	(1948-02-11)February 11, 1948 Los Angeles, California
Died	June 21, 2019(2019-06-21) (aged 71) Los Angeles, California
Height	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[13]
Official website

Susan Bernard (February 11, 1948 – June 21, 2019 Los Angeles, California)^[13] was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli and her father Bruno Bernard.^[13]

Bernard had a sporadic film and television career, appearing for one season of General Hospital in the late 1960s and in small parts in series television. In most of her work, she was credited as Sue Bernard.^[14]

When she posed for Playboy, she was working on the Russ Meyer film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.^[14] She was believed – at the time – to be the first Jewish Playmate of the month. However, at the turn of the 21st century, Cindy Fuller, Miss May 1959, has claimed that she was the first Jewish Playmate.^[15]

In an interview in the August 1998 issue of Femme Fatales, Bernard revealed, "I was the first under-18 Jewish virgin who was in the centerfold placed in front of a Christmas tree."^[16] Prior to her Playboy photo shoot, she had never been nude in front of anyone other than her mother.^[16]

The photographer of her centerfold, Mario Cassili, was one of her father's apprentices.^[16] Her father was photographer Bruno Bernard.^[17] She was working on several books about her father that were published before her death.^[17]

On June 21, 2019 – in Los Angeles – 71-year-old Susan Bernard died from an apparent cardiac arrest.^[18]

See also

• List of people in Playboy 1960–1969

References

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8. IMDb credits for Dolly Read
9. Deseret News, June 14, 1974, p. A2
10. "'Laugh-In' comic Dick Martin dead at 86". CNN. Associated Press. May 25, 2008. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008.
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13. Tomlonson, Mark. "Susan Bernard". PLAYBOY Playmates. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
14. Seelye, Katharine Q. (June 30, 2019). "Susan Bernard, 71, Dies; Actress and Keeper of a Photographic Legacy". The New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
15. Goodyear, Dana (October 9, 2002). "Icon: Love, Susan of Hollywood". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008.
16. Scapperotti, Dan (August 1, 1998). "Banned in Boston: Bernard of Hollywood". Femme Fatales. 7 (3). Forest Park, Illinois: Frederick S. Clark: 8–31. ISSN 1062-3906.
17. "Playmate News". Playboy. 55. Playboy: 143–144. November 2008.
18. Evans, Greg (June 26, 2019). "Susan Bernard Dies: 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' Actress, Publisher Of Iconic Hollywood Photo Archive Was 71". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved May 21, 2021.