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| Dolores Del Monte | ||
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| Also known as: | Busty Brown | |
| Birthdate: | Mar 15, 1932 | |
| Birthplace: | Spokane, Washington | |
| Measurements: | 34-24-35 in (86-60-88 cm) | |
| Height: | 5' 6" (1.68m) | |
| Weight: | 118 lbs (54 kg) | |
Dolores Del Monte (born 15 March 1932 in Spokane, Washington) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1954 issue.
Del Monte was an only child of Italian ancestry and at an early age held a love for singing, dancing and music. She moved to Hollywood after graduating from high school in 1950 to pursue an acting career.
While in Hollywood, Del Monte posed for photographers Bruno Bernard and Zoe Mozert. She was happy that the work paid well ($50.00 per hour) but was hesitant at first to pose in the nude. Bernard had sold some of her photos to the Baumgarth Calendar Company in Melrose Park, Illinois, who in turn sold them to a young magazine publisher named Hugh Hefner. It wasn't until 1979 that Del Monte realized that she had been a Playmate. She found out when her son Steve, who was attending college in New Jersey, saw his mother's centerfold while leafing through the 25th anniversary issue of Playboy.
In 1952, Del Monte married her high school sweetheart, Roy Card, and settled down to start a household in San Bernardino, California. She had three children, Greg, Steve and Lisa. Her husband had a job in the aerospace industry, and his work on the Titan II missile took the family all over the world.
By 1969, Del Monte had returned to Spokane and got a job at the Crecent Department Store as a scarf and scarf-clip demonstrator. During the early seventies, Del Monte and Card divorced. In 1974, she was hired as the senior tour guide supervisor for the 1974 World's Fair held in Spokane.
Dolores married her second husband, Al Mack, in 1977. They moved to Beaverton, Oregon, where Mack worked as an insurance broker. He died in 1987, and Del Monte moved down to Southern California.
Today, Del Monte participates in Playboy events and devotes much of her time to fundraising for the 18th Chromosone Registry.
http://doloresdelmonte.com/home/DDmain.htm website Updated: 2001 |
Dolores quickly began to model for a photographer named Bruno Bernard, working under the name of Bernard of Hollywood who specialized in figure modeling. A naive Dolores was too shy to disclose that she did not know figure modeling meant posing nude. Much to Dolores’ joy, it paid $50 per hour which was a lot of money in the fifties. Bernard primarily sold his nudes to Baumgarth Calendar Company of Melrose Park, Illinois.
For a six month period of time she lived with and modeled for Zoe Mozert, a famous artist who sold her pinups to Brown & Biglow Calendar Company. Finally in 1952, succumbing to the marriage pleas of her fiancée, Dolores walked away from her short lived modeling career and married Roy. They remained in San Bernardino and soon after she welcomed the births of her children Greg, Steve and Lisa.
She believes in late 1953 (while she was pregnant with Greg) a letter arrived asking her permission to publish her picture in Playboy. Not familiar with Playboy, she believed it was a pin-up in which she was wearing a leopard print bathing suit so she went ahead and signed it but never saw the magazine. As it turned out, it was the pinup Bruno Bernard sold to the Baumgarth Calendar Company titled "Radiant Beauty" and was later sold to Hugh Hefner for his March 1954 issue of his fledgling Playboy Magazine.
Trivia
- Del Monte was one of the Spider Pool models
- Del Monte is the only Playmate to be preceded and succeeded by the same woman: Marilyn Waltz, whose first appearance was under the name Margaret Scott.
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