List of Playboy Playmates of 1979
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
[edit]| Candy Loving | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | Candis Loving September 4, 1956 Oswego, Kansas, U.S.[1] |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1] |
Candis "Candy" Loving (born September 4, 1956)[1] is an American model. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for the January 1979 issue, which made her Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate.[1] Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker.[1]
February
[edit]| Lee Ann Michelle | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 March 1960 Surrey, England[2] |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[2] |
Lee Ann Michelle (born 17 March 1960)[2] 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.[2]
March
[edit]| Denise McConnell | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 23, 1958 Wiesbaden, Germany[3] |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[3] |
Denise McConnell (born December 23, 1958)[3] 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.[3]
April
[edit]| Missy Cleveland | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 25, 1959 Jackson, Mississippi[4] |
| Died | August 14, 2001 (aged 41) (adverse reaction to prescription medication) |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[4] |
Amanda "Missy" Hodges Cleveland (December 25, 1959 – August 14, 2001)[4] 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.[4]
Cleveland was born in Jackson, Mississippi[4] and attended Provine High School and McClure Academy.[5] 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.[5]
May
[edit]| Michele Drake | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 7, 1958 La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
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.[6]
June
[edit]| Louann Fernald | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 23, 1957 San Antonio, Texas, U.S.[7] |
| Height | 5 ft 4.5 in (1.64 m) |
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.[7] Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker.
July
[edit]| Dorothy Mays | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 24, 1957 Nuremberg, Germany |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
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.
August
[edit]| Dorothy Stratten | |
|---|---|
| Playboy Playmate of the Year | |
| 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Monique St. Pierre |
| Succeeded by | Terri Welles |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 28, 1960 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[8] |
| Died | August 14, 1980 (aged 20) |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[8] |
Dorothy Stratten (February 28, 1960 – August 14, 1980)[8] 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.[8] Stratten is remembered for the circumstances of her murder at age 20 by her estranged husband,[9] an act that was the basis of two motion pictures.
September
[edit]| Vicky McCarty | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vicki Ann McCarty January 13, 1954 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
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 is separated from her husband, record producer and founder of Interscope Records Jimmy Iovine. They have four children.[10] She has published several books pertaining to pregnancy and parenthood under the brand of Girlfriends' Guides, as well as Best Friends' Guides.
October
[edit]| Ursula Buchfellner | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 June 1961 Munich, Germany |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
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.
November
[edit]| Sylvie Garant | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 23, 1957 Montmagny, Quebec, Canada |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Sylvie Garant (born September 23, 1957) is a Canadian model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1979 issue.[11] Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.[12] 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]
December
[edit]| Candace Collins | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 26, 1954 Dupo, Illinois, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
[www.candidcandace.com Official website] | |
Candace Collins (born May 26, 1954) 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] Collins was also a Playboy Bunny[13] 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,[14] as a television host, popular media personality in Chicago,[citation needed] and onetime Chicago Tribune social columnist.[15] In 2017 at the age of 60, 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.[16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Playmate data". Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Playmate listing". Retrieved January 11, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Playmate data". Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "Playmate data". Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ a b "Obituary at Clarion Ledger". Retrieved January 29, 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Palopoli, Steve (17 May 2019). "Meet Playboy's Little-Known Group, The Singing Playmates". Playboy Magazine (Spring 2019).
- ^ a b Fernald, Louann (17 March 2020). "Speaking Out With Louann Fernald". Playboy.
- ^ a b c d "Playmate data". Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ Vincent Canby (1983-11-10). "SCREEN: 'STAR 80,' A SEX-SYMBOL'S LIFE AND DEATH". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ Iovine, Vicki. "Divorce Is Trite, But Everyone's Is Special". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
- ^ "Sylvie Garant". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Playboy's Playback: Sylvie Garant". Playboy. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Playboy". July 2008: 131.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Kogan, Rick (2 June 2017). "Where are those Playmates now? Former cover girls return in Playboy photo project". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Candace Jordan". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ n/a, Iveta. "7 Playboy's Playmates Recreate Their Own Magazine Covers Around 30 Years Later". Bored Panda. Retrieved 2017-12-18.