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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1954. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. Prior to September 1959, Playmates were not asked to complete data sheets.
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January
Margie Harrison was an American actress and model. She was Playmate of the Month for both January 1954 and June 1954. While Marilyn Monroe preceded her as a Playboy "Sweetheart of the Month", Monroe did not appear in the center pages, but was pictured on pages 16 to 18. Harrison is therefore the first model designated "Playmate of the Month". Like Monroe, her photo was purchased from the John Baumgarth Company, which specialized in pin-up calendars. According to The Playmate Book, Harrison also appeared in the men's magazines Follies and Gala.
February
Billed as "Margaret Scott", Marilyn Ardith Jordan (née Waltz) (November 5, 1931 in Waukesha, Wisconsin – December 23, 2006 in Medford, Oregon) was an American actress and model who appeared as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in the February 1954.
Known as Marilyn Waltz, (later Marilyn Jordan), she also appeared as Playmate of the Month in the April 1954 and April 1955 issues.
She was the first of two women to become a three-time Playmate. However, for the first of her Playboy appearances, Waltz was billed as Margaret Scott. For many years thereafter, many assumed that Marilyn and Margaret actually were two different women. It was not until the mid-1990s that the two were determined to be the same woman.
March
Dolores Del Monte (born March 15, 1932 in Spokane, Washington) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1954 issue.
April
Marilyn Waltz (See February entry above)
May
Joanne Arnold (born April 1, 1931) was an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1954 issue. She also appeared on the covers of the March 1954 and August 1955 issues.
June
Margie Harrison (See January entry above)
July
Neva Gilbert (born September 1) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1954 issue.
August
Arline Hunter (born December 16, 1931) was an American actress and model. She is perhaps best known as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for August 1954. Her centerfold was the first not to be purchased from the John Baumgarth Co. by Hugh Hefner, and was photographed by Ed DeLong.
September
Jackie Rainbow (June 6, 1933 – June 15, 1988) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1954 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Carlyle Blackwell for the Publix Pictorial Service.
October
Madeline Castle (born December 1, 1933) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1954 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Jack Drebert and Jean Drebert. According to The Playmate Book, Castle was a prominent model in pin-ups and in men's magazines during the 1950s and early 1960s.
November
Diane Hunter was a pseudonym for Gale Rita Morris (born July 14, 1937 in Tacoma, Washington), who was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1954 issue.
December
Terry Ryan (born December 1, 1933) was an American model. She is best known as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1954 issue.
Ryan's pictorial was the first photographed directly under Playboy's supervision. Prior to this issue, Playboy had purchased layouts from independent photographers.