It was the 1960s and the sexual revolution was in full swing! Though hundreds of women graced the pages of Playboy, these ten buxom bunnies make our list of Temptress Magazine’s Top Ten Playmates of the 1960s!
By Kelly A. | Contributing Writer
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TEDDI SMITH
One of the most prolific Playboy Playmates of the 1960s, Teddi Smith appeared on the cover of Playboy four times! Smith started the swinging sixties off right as Playmate of the Month in July 1960. With her strawberry blonde hair and girlish smile, Smith was the perfect Playboy Playmate.
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BARBARA ANN LAWFORD
Not every cover girl is a centerfold, and not every centerfold is on the cover, but Barbara Ann Lawford was both! Lawford was on the cover of Playboy in February 1961 and again in September of ’61. The busty brunette was also the centerfold Playmate of the Month in the February issue. Her doe-eyed, girl-next-door stare made Lawford a Playboy favorite.
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JUNE COCHRAN
A blonde bombshell with a sky-high bouffant, June Cochran makes the Temptress Magazine list of the Top Ten Playmates of the 1960s! Cochran won the title Miss Indiana in 1960 and modeled as Playboy Magazine’s Playmate of the Month in December 1962. Cochran went on to become Playmate of the Year in 1963.
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DONNA MICHELLE
Donna Michelle was a curvaceous model who was the December 1963 Playmate of the Month as well as the 1964 Playmate of the Year. Michelle was a California girl with a sultry temptress pout. Michelle was just seventeen when she first appeared in the magazine.
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CHINA LEE
An exotic beauty, China Lee was the first Asian American Playmate! Lee appeared as the centerfold of the August 1964 issue. Playboy never discriminated against beautiful women, featuring Lee’s long dark hair and voluptuous body with pride. Lee would later go on to perform a striptease in Woody Allen’s film, What’s Up Tiger Lily?
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JO COLLINS
Jo Collins embodied the Playboy Playmate of the 1960s: beautiful, brunette, and buxom! Collins glowed in her 1964 Playmate of the Month centerfold, eventually winning her Playmate of the Year for 1965. In 1966 Collins traveled all the way to Vietnam to hand-deliver a copy of Playboy to a lieutenant who had a lifetime subscription!
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JENNIFER JACKSON
Playboy broke down countless barriers between society, race, and sex in the 1960s. Always leading the charge for change, Playboy was one of the first American magazines to feature women of color. Jennifer Jackson was the very first African American Playmate of the Month in March of 1965. Jackson was also a Playboy Bunny at the famed Playboy Club.
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DOLLY READ MARTIN
Born in Bristol England, Dolly Martin was featured as the May 1966 Playmate of the Month. Martin was a British vixen who went on to star in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Martin was also a Playboy Bunny at the Playboy Club! She was as beautiful as she was busty.
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ANGELA DORIAN
Born Victoria Vetri in San Fransisco, Vetri posed for Playboy under the name Angela Dorian and was chosen at the Playmate of the Month in the September 1967 issue. Dorian would go on to act and appear in a few major films such as Rosemary’s Baby. In May 2000 she was featured #48 in the Collector’s Edition of Playboy’s Centerfolds of the Century. Eleven years later in 2011 Dorian was arrested and sentenced to 9 years in prison for shooting her husband. Dorian was one dangerous dame!
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GALE OLSON
Centerfold Gale Olson was Playmate of the Month for the August 1968 issue in a spread that was more indicative of the free-wheeling, care-free attitude of the late 1960s. Olson brought a more natural, ethereal look to Playboy. Olson was also a bunny at the Playboy Club. Her daughter, Crystal McCahill, would go on to be Playmate of the Month a few decades later in May of 2009.
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How come my friend Dianne Chandler- Miss September 1966- was NOT included?!
Sorry, but any Playmate list with Gale Olson cannot be taken seriously. Unless it’s a list of the “Bottom 10 Playmates of the 60′s.”
Where are Gaye Rennie,Dianne Chandler,Michelle Hamilton?
Donna Michelle and China Lee I agree with.
Hey THANKS!!
Great to see my China Doll once again!
She’s gorgeous ….
In my early teens I copped a copy…..by stuffing down my dungarees …..and during a sleep out……examined the Playboy and China Doll Centerfold more closely …..
Thank you for bringing back those hilarious memories!!!
All drag queens, then as now.
i don’t agree with your list. what about frag gerard , cynthia myers, melinda windsor, and about 15 more i can think of?
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