Playboy's First Fold-Out Centerfold Was Shot by a Woman
Remembering the prodigious career of Ruth Sondak.
There are a number of ways to historically frame Playboy’s final fully nude U.S. issue, on newsstands now. One is simple arithmetic.
Miss February 2016 Kristy Garett, the 25-year-old Russian-born model with the Middle America sounding name, is Playmate #749. Number one (after “Sweetheart of the Month” Marilyn Monroe) was Margie Harrison in the January 1954 issue, while the first Playmate to come with a three-page fold-out centerfold was Marian Stafford, Miss March 1956.
Another way to honor and appreciate the span of Hugh Hefner’s groundbreaking magazine is to look back at the photographer who shot that Stafford spread: Ruth Sondak.
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