Arline Hunter

Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Arline Hunter


issue = August 1954
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bust = 38"
waist = 24"
hips = 35"
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preceded = Neva Gilbert
succeeded = Jackie Rainbow
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Arline Hunter is 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 instead photographed by Ed DeLong, who would go on to become one of the more prolific "Playboy" photographers in the 1960s.

Much of Hunter's fame was built upon her resemblance to Marilyn Monroe; indeed, her "Playboy" pose was obviously inspired by Monroe's notorious 1949 nude photo session with Tom Kelley from which her own "Playboy" photo came. The similarity in look between Hunter and Monroe also came into play when a nude Hunter starred in a film short called "Apple Knockers and Coke". For many years there have been those who have seen the film and have mistaken Hunter for Monroe.

Hunter went on to have a film career that consisted mostly of sexy parts in B-movies such as "White Lightnin' Road" and "The Art of Burlesque". She also appeared alongside the Three Stooges in 1957's "Outer Space Jitters". Perhaps one of her biggest film roles was with fellow bombshell Mamie Van Doren in "Sex Kittens Go to College". She also had guest roles in prominent TV series such as "Perry Mason" and "My Three Sons".

Filmography

Films

* "The Bluest Marilyn Monroe" (1981) (V)
* "Big Daddy" (1969)
* "The Art of Burlesque" (1968) .... Herself
* "Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title" (1966) .... Girl Student
* "White Lightnin' Road" (1965) .... Ruby
* "Madison Avenue" (1962) (uncredited) .... Miss Horn
* "The Ruined Bruin" (1961)
* "Sex Kittens Go to College" (1960) .... Nurse
* "The Angry Red Planet" (1960) .... Joan
* "Revolt in the Big House" (1958) .... Girl
* "Outer Space Jitters" (1957) (uncredited) .... Sunev Girl
* "Son of Sinbad" (1955) (as Arlene Hunter) .... Tartar Girl
* "Casanova's Big Night" (1954) (uncredited) .... Girl in window
* "Baghdad After Midnight" (1954) (as Arlene Hunter)
* "Strip Tease College Girls" (1948) .... Betty
* "A Virgin in Hollywood" (1948)

Television

* "My Three Sons" - "Robbie and the Chorus Girl" (1965) .... Beauty
* "Hot Off the Wire" - "Floundered in Florida" (as Arlene Hunter) .... Angela
* "Johnny Staccato" - "Swinging Long Hair" (1960) .... Photographer
* "Perry Mason" - "The Case of the Fraudulent Photo" (1959) .... Receptionist

ee also

* List of people in Playboy 1953-1959

External links

*playmate|1954|8
*imdb name|id=0402718|name=Arline Hunter