Marilyn Cole
{{Short description|English model}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
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| name = Marilyn Cole
| issue = January 1972
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| birth_place = Gosport, Hampshire, England
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|5|7}}
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| height = {{convert|5|ft|8|in|cm|abbr=on}}
| preceded = Karen Christy
| succeeded = P. J. Lansing
| pmoy-year = 1973
| pmoy-preceded = Liv Lindeland
| pmoy-succeeded = Cyndi Wood
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Marilyn Cole (born 7 May 1949){{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=cole%2C+marilyn&limit=0|title=Playmate data|accessdate=8 November 2010}} was Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month. She was the magazine's first full-frontal nude centerfold.{{efn|Since her pubic hair was partly covered by the shadow cast from the book in her hand, Bonnie Large, the Playmate of the Month for March 1973, is often regarded as the first Playmate of the Month to appear clearly full frontal nude.[http://playmate.uw.hu Playboy Playmate of the Month]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428211715if_/http://playmate.uw.hu:80/ |date=28 April 2010}}}} She also became 1973's Playmate of the Year, becoming the only Briton to hold that title. Her original pictorial was photographed by Alexas Urba.
Career
Cole worked at a Post Office punched card unit in Portsmouth Central Telephone Exchange, before working, for £12 weekly, at the Portsmouth Co-op Fuel Office, when she was interviewed to be a Playboy Bunny at the London Playboy Club.{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-industry/50-years-of-the-bunny-girl-hugh-hefner-on-life-with-a-controversial-pop-icon-1971934.html | last=Jenkins | first=David | title=50 years of the bunny girl:Hugh Hefner on a life with controversial pop icon | newspaper=The Independent | date=15 May 2010 | accessdate=28 January 2020}} She worked as a bunny from 1971 to 1974, and, within a few days of starting work there, was noticed by Victor Lownes and test-photographed for the magazine. Marilyn also worked as a barmaid at the Auckland Arms Hotel in Southsea during the late 60s.
She appeared on the cover of the Roxy Music album Stranded, having been noticed by Bryan Ferry after winning Playmate of the Year. She had previously appeared on the covers of various Top of the Pops albums.[http://www.tonybarrell.com/cover-stories/ Barrell, Tony, "Cover Stories", Sunday Times (11 November 2007)]
Personal life
She was married to former Playboy executive Victor Lownes, over 20 years her senior, until his death in 2017, and now works as a journalist.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7719952/Playboy-Bunnies-50-years-on.html Van Praagh, Anna, "Playboy bunnies 50 years on" Telegraph (23 May 2010)] Among the subjects she writes about is professional boxing, which she began covering in 2000.[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/nov/30/boxing.features1 Lownes, Marilyn Cole, "How I fell in love with the fight game", The Observer (30 November 2003)]
Her interests include the tango, which she studied under Paul Pellicoro,[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/11/movies/flirting-with-the-tango.html Scott, Janny, "Flirting with the tango", New York Times (11 June 1999)] and has partnered with actor Brian Cox.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514221105/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article6813294.ece Grove, Valerie, "Brian Cox plays Humbert Humbert in Lolita", Sunday Times (29 August 2009)]
Filmography
- Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates (2004) (V)
- Forty Minutes (1990) TV Episode
- V.I.P.-Schaukel (1972) TV Episode
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1519499|Marilyn Cole}}
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Category:1970s Playboy Playmates
Category:Playboy Playmates of the Year
Category:People from Portsmouth
Category:English female models
Category:20th-century English women