A Bunny's Tale

{{short description|1985 American television biopic about feminist journalist Gloria Steinem}}

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| genre = Biography
comedy-drama

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| writer = Deena Goldstone
Lynn Roth

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| director = Karen Arthur

| starring = Kirstie Alley

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| theme_music_composer = Paul Chihara

| country = United States

| language = English

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| producer = Stan Margulies
Joan Marks
Janette M. Webb

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| editor = Millie Moore

| cinematography = Gayne Rescher

| runtime = 104 minutes

| company = ABC Circle Films

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| network = ABC

| released = {{Start date|1985|02|25}}

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A Bunny's Tale is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy-drama based on American feminist icon and journalist Gloria Steinem's experiences working as a Playboy Bunny in 1963, as described by her 1963 article "A Bunny's Tale" (published in Show magazine in two parts).[http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny%27s%20Tale-Part%20One-May%201963.pdf Part I] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218105108/http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny's%20Tale-Part%20One-May%201963.pdf |date=2014-12-18 }} and [http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny%27s%20Tale-Part%20Two-June%201963.pdf Part II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150824191851/http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny's%20Tale-Part%20Two-June%201963.pdf |date=2015-08-24 }}

It stars Kirstie Alley as Steinem.

Plot

Engaged by a magazine to write an investigative article on publisher Hugh Hefner's nightclub chain, Ms. Steinem poses as a young girl named "Marie" and enters the Bunny training program at the New York City Playboy Club. Outfitted with phony ears, a fuzzy tail, and a revealing costume, Gloria learns the proper method of serving drinks, the "bunny dip", and how to fend off customers who ignore Hefner's "look but don't touch" policy. She also concludes that being a sex object, even a chaste one, is depressingly demeaning—an "awakening".

Cast

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