List of Playboy Playmates of 1981#July
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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1981. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
{{Main|Karen Price}}
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| name = Karen Price
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| birth_place = Pasadena, California
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|7|17}}
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Karen Elaina Price (born July 17, 1960){{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=price%2C+karen+elaine&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=November 9, 2010}} is an American model, stunt woman and television producer. She is sometimes credited as Karen Castoldi. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.
After she became a Playmate, Price started acting, but soon switched to performing stunts for over two dozen films, including Leonard Part 6 (1987), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), and The Golden Child (1986). After a hiatus, she began a new career as an associate producer of television programs such as Amazing Vacation Homes (2004) and Amazing Babies (2005).
Price made a cameo appearance of sorts in the early Mel Gibson film The Road Warrior – her centerfold is pasted onto a tailfin of Gyro Captain's Benson gyrocopter.
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February
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| name = Vicki Lasseter
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| birth_place = Iola, Kansas
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|2|19}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}
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Vicki Lynn Lasseter (born February 19, 1960, in Iola, Kansas) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.
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March
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| name = Kymberly Herrin
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|10|2|mf=y}}{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=herrin%2C+kymberly+ellen&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}}
| birth_place = Santa Barbara County, California
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|10|28|1957|10|2|mf=y}}{{cite news |title=Kymberly Herrin, Playboy Playmate From 'Ghostbusters', Dead at 65 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/kymberly-herrin-playboy-playmate-ghostbusters-dead-65-1760037 |access-date=16 November 2022 |publisher=Newsweek |date=16 November 2022}}
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Kymberly Ellen Herrin (October 2, 1957 – October 28, 2022) was an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Herrin had several small roles in films of the 1980s, such as Ghostbusters and Romancing the Stone, as well as the ZZ Top video "Legs".
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April
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| name = Lorraine Michaels
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| birth_place = Canterbury, England
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|1|23|mf=y}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}
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Lorraine Michaels (born January 23, 1958, in Canterbury, England) is an English model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in for the April 1981 issue.
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May
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| name = Gina Goldberg
| birth_name = Tiina Virenius
| birth_place = Turku, Finland
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|6|30}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}
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Gina Goldberg (born Tiina Virenius June 30, 1963 in Turku) is a Finnish model, actress and singer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1981 issue.
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June
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| name = Cathy Larmouth
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| birth_name =
| birth_place = Torrance, California, United States
| birth_date = {{birth date|1953|7|15|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2007|1|4|1953|7|15}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}
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Cathy Larmouth (July 15, 1953 – January 4, 2007) was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=larmouth%2C+cathy&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=January 22, 2009}} A year after her centerfold, she appeared as a contestant on The Joker's Wild winning several games.
Larmouth died on January 4, 2007, of a heart attack at the age of 53, after a period of declining health.{{cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/pml1@yahoogroups.com/msg15710.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030104543/http://www.mail-archive.com/pml1@yahoogroups.com/msg15710.html|archive-date=30 October 2008|title=Cathy Larmouth – R.I.P.|date=6 Jan 2008|website=Yahoo Groups}}
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July
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| name = Heidi Sorenson
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| birth_name =
| birth_place = Vancouver, Canada
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|8|5}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}
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Heidi Sorenson (born in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 5, 1960) is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1981 issue.
She was in the 1985 vampire horror film Fright Night as well as the 1985 comedy Spies Like Us and the 1987 comedy Roxanne.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814888/|title=Heidi Sorenson|website=IMDb}}
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August
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| name = Debbie Boostrom
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| birth_place = Peoria, Illinois
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1955|6|23|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2008|7|29|1955|6|23}}{{cite web |title=Week ending August 2, 2008 |url=http://lifeinlegacy.com/display.php?weekof=2008-08-02#D9810 |website=Life in Legacy |access-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131202312/http://lifeinlegacy.com/display.php?weekof=2008-08-02#D9810 |archive-date=January 31, 2014 |url-status=dead}}
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Debbie Boostrom (born June 23, 1955, Peoria, Illinois, d. July 29, 2008) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli while she was living in Florida.{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=boostrom%2C+debbie&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}} Boostrom subsequently married and relocated to Kansas. Following the end of the marriage she moved to Florida to design jewelry{{cite journal|periodical=Playboy|publisher=Playboy|title=Playmate News|volume=55|date=October 2008|pages=123–124}} and act in infomercials. On July 29, 2008, she was found dead in her apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She had reportedly been suffering from terminal breast cancer.{{cite web |title=Obits: "Bo" – "Bt" |url=http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-bo.htm#BoostromDeborah |website=Caskets On Parade |access-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426190332/http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-bo.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2015 |url-status=dead}}
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September
{{Other people|Susan Smith}}
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| name = Susan Smith
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| birth_place = Beloit, Wisconsin
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1959|1|14}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}
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Susan M. Smith (born January 14, 1959, in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus and Robert Scott Hooper.
Susan first appeared in Playboy in the February 1979 pictorial "The Girls of Las Vegas." She also "wrestled" Andy Kaufman for the "intergender championship of the world" for a February 1982 layout, and did occasional ring announcing in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s.
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October
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| name = Kelly Tough
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| imagesize = 150px
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| birth_name =
| birth_place = Vancouver, Canada
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1961|12|16}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}}
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Kelly Ann Tough (born December 16, 1961, in Vancouver, British Columbia){{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=tough%2C+kelly+ann&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=March 15, 2009}} is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.
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November
{{Main|Shannon Tweed}}
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| image = Shannon_Tweed_2007.jpg
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| caption = Shannon Tweed at the 2nd Annual Night of 1000 Stars. Ritual Supper Club, Hollywood, California
| name = Shannon Tweed
| birth_name = Shannon Lee Tweed
| birth_place = St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|3|10}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}
| pmoy-year = 1982
| pmoy-preceded = Terri Welles
| pmoy-succeeded = Marianne Gravatte
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Shannon Lee Tweed (born March 10, 1957){{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=tweed%2C+shannon+lee&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}} is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,Green, Phillip. Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998:170 she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed currently lives with her husband Gene Simmons of Kiss and they have two children.
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December
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| name = Patricia Farinelli
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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|3|18}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}
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Patricia "Patti" Farinelli (born March 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California),{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=farinelli%2C+patricia&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}} is an Italian-American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.
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See also
References
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