The document discusses four pioneering Playboy Playmates from the 1950s and 1960s who helped shape the magazine: - Bettie Page, the first bondage model, was Playmate in January 1955 and helped popularize fetish photography. - Elizabeth Ann Roberts, just 16, was the first underage Playmate in January 1958, sparking legal issues. - China Lee, in August 1964, was the first Asian American Playmate and had roles in films like What's Up Tiger Lily?. - Jennifer Jackson broke barriers as the first African American Playmate in March 1965 and faced controversy for her selection.

1. Four Playboy
Playmates that made history
Contains nudity
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2. Bettie Page
- First Underage Playmate

3. Bettie Page
The Innocent Bondage Model
Playboy Playmate in January 1955
Bettie Page was a pin-up model of the 1950s
who was unaware that her beauty and style
would inspire comic books, fashion stylists
and commercial products for decades.
She only viewed her job as a pin up queen
as fun and many of the outfits she wore
were designed and made on her own which
includes her lingerie, bikinis, and a lot of her
dresses. Even the iconic hair was another of
her choices.
She captured the imagination of a
generation with her combination of naughty
and innocent. She had no qualms about
doing full nudity at a time when talking
about sex was a taboo.
Bettie Page died at the age of 85 in
December 2008.

4. Bettie Page
The Innocent Bondage Model
Playboy Playmate in January 1955
Bettie Mae Page was born in Nashville,
Tenesse in 1923 and was the second of six
children. In 1949, she moved to New York with
aspirations of becoming an actress.
It was there she met the bondage
photographer, Irving Klaw, who created a large
collection of Bettie Page in bondage outfit
from 1952 to 1957. The images where Bettie
Page poses in bondage outfit would make her
famous. Full nudity and photos in bondage
outfit was revolutionary for America in the 50s
where the government tried to suppress the
distribution of sexually explicit material.
The bondage photos were innocent compared
to our time but in the 50s they were not
acceptable and lead to a U.S Senate
investigation in the 1950s.

5. Bettie Page
The Innocent Bondage Model
Playboy Playmate in January 1955
Bettie Page’s most professional photographs were
taken in 1955 by fashion photographer Bunny
Yeager. They included shots of Page nude and
frolicking in waves and deep-sea fishing, and a
January 1955 Playboy centerfold.
Page wore nothing but a Santa hat in Playboy's
January 1955 centerfold. Playboy founder Hugh
Hefner said her appearance in his magazine's first
year was a milestone. "She became, in time, an
American icon, her winning smile and effervescent
personality apparent in every pose” according to
Hefner
In 1957 at the height of her popularity and with a
promising acting career before her, she quit, and
wasn’t seen in public for more than 30 years. She
experienced a religious inclination and said to
have been born-again Christian In 1987,

6. Elizabeth Ann Roberts
- First Underage Playmate

7. Elizabeth Ann Roberts
The first underage teen playmate
Playboy Playmate in January 1958
Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Playmate of the
Month for January 1958, looked like a high
school student--because she was!
Born in August 1941, the pretty 16-year-old
showed up for her photo shoot with a note
signed by her mother (who actually
accompanied Elizabeth!).

8. Elizabeth Ann Roberts
The first underage teen playmate
Playboy Playmate in January 1958
Mom's note gave the okay for her daughter to pose for
Playboy and also attested that Elizabeth was not a minor.
Roberts appeared in a pictorial salaciously titled
"Schoolmate Playmate." Her elegant but very youthful
appearance prompted an investigation.

9. Elizabeth Ann Roberts
The first underage teen playmate
Playboy Playmate in January 1958
Charges were laid in Chicago against both
Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner and
Elizabeth's mother for "contributing to the
delinquency of a minor."
The charge against Hefner was later
dropped when it could not be proved that
Hefner knew Roberts' real age.
Had the case proceeded to court, Hefner
was prepared to argue that the girl who
posed nude for the famous 1912 painting
September Morn was only 15..

10. Elizabeth Ann Roberts
The first underage teen playmate
Playboy Playmate in January 1958
Roberts later worked as a bunny in Chicago's
Playboy Club.
There have been at least seven Playboy
Playmates of the Month who were under 18
years of age.
Almost all appeared before 1967 when
previously vague laws pertaining to modelling
for art, erotica, and pornography were
clarified and tightened.

11. China Lee
- First Asian American Playmate

12. China Lee
First Asian American Playmate
Playboy Playmate in August 1964
China Lee was born in New Orleans, Louisiana
and was 21 years old when she appeared as
Playboy Playmate in August 1964.
At that time, China Lee was a training bunny in
the Playboy Club Empire, where her teaching
duties would take her to different locations
with every new Playboy Club opening.

13. China Lee
First Asian American Playmate
Playboy Playmate in August 1964
In Playboy Magazine, China Lee was
portrayed as an active and athletic female
with ambitions to become a professional
singer.

14. China Lee
First Asian American Playmate
Playboy Playmate in August 1964
As a result of her Playmate appearance she signed
a contract with Ava Records. China Lee was one of
the most popular playmates in 1964 but lost the
Playmate of the year title
Lee made her film debut playing a hooker in the
comedy The Troublemaker (1964). She then
joined a gaggle of starlets as anonymous gold
lame bikini-clad robots in Dr. Goldfoot and the
Bikini Machine (1965) a takeoff on James
Bond’s Goldfinger. The film that brought China
Lee most fame was her strip tease performance in
Woody Allen’s What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966).
Though the movie brought Lee to the masses as
the still of her in her swimsuit was used to
promote the movie worldwide it didn’t bring her
any significant film role

15. Jennifer Jackson
- First African American Playmate

16. Jennifer Jackson
The First African American Playmate
Playboy Playmate in March 1965
Jennifer Jackson broke racial barriers when
she became the first black Playmate of the
Month in March 1965.
She was born in 1945, Februrary 6, Chicago,
Illinois.

17. Jennifer Jackson
The First African American Playmate
Playboy Playmate in March 1965
Jackson's selection as a Playmate caused much
controversy at the time, with Hugh Hefner and
the magazine receiving a flood of letters, not all
supportive, regarding the decision.
Interestingly, the article that accompanied
Jennifer's pictorial doesn't make any reference to
her race or her "pioneering" status.

18. Jennifer Jackson
The First African American Playmate
Playboy Playmate in March 1965
Jennifer Jackson worked as a Bunny at the
Playboy Club in Chicago along with her twin
sister Janis.
According to The Playmate Book, she later
became a social worker and settled down in
the Pacific Northwest with her husband. She
has three children and one grandchild.

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