Susan Bernard

Infobox Playboy Playmate


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name = Susan Bernard
issue = December 1966
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birthplace = Los Angeles, California
birthdate = birth date and age|1948|2|11
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bust = 35"
waist = 22"
hips = 35"
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preceded = Lisa Baker
succeeded = Surrey Marshe
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Susan Bernard (born February 11, 1948) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.

Biography

Personal life

Bernard was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Bruno Bernard, a celebrity photographer and Holocaust survivor, and Ruth Brand, a stage actress and director. Bernard was married and divorced twice. She has a son with her first husband, Jason Miller, an actor/playwright who died in 2001. Their son, Joshua John Miller, is an actor as well.

Today, she lives in Los Angeles, runs a small business and is putting together a website to honor her father's work.

Career

Bernard had a sporadic film and television career, appearing for one season of "General Hospital" in the late 1960s and in small parts in series television. In most of her work, she was credited as Sue Bernard.

She posed for "Playboy" while working on the Russ Meyer film "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!". She was believed to be the first Jewish Playmate of the month, though in recent years Cindy Fuller, Miss May 1959, has claimed that she was the first Jewish Playmate. [ [http://www.laweekly.com/columns/a-considerable-town/icon-love-susan-of-hollywood/10257/ LA Weekly - Columns - Icon: Love, Susan of Hollywood - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles ] ] [ [http://www.gay.com/entertainment/news/?coll=pno_entertainment&sernum=4735&navpath=/channels/entertainment/movies/&page=4 "That Tender Touch" star Susan Bernard talks - Queer Lesbian Gay Arts & Entertainment: Movies - Gay.com ] ] In an interview in the August 1998 issue of "Femme Fatales", Bernard revealed, "I was the first under-18 Jewish virgin who was in the centerfold placed in front of a Christmas tree" and that she'd never been nude in front of anyone other than her mother prior to posing for Cassili, who had been one of her father's apprentices.

Filmography

Films

* "The Mao Game" (1999)
* "Teenager" (1974)
* "The Killing Kind" (1973) .... Tina
* "Necromancy" (1972) .... Nancy
* "" (1971) .... Julie
* "The Phynx" (1970) .... London Belly
* "That Tender Touch" (1969) .... Terry Manning
* "The Witchmaker" (1969) .... Felicity Johnson
* "Stranger In Hollywood" (1968) .... Woman
* "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965) (as Susan Bernard)

Television

* "The Smith Family" - "No Place to Hide" (1971)
* "The Beverly Hillbillies"
** "The Girls from Grun" (1971) .... Girl
** "The Grunion Invasion" (1971) .... Girl
* "Room 222" - "Funny Boy" (1969) .... Joellen
* "General Hospital" (1963) .... Beverly Cleveland Fairchild (1968-1969)

ee also

* List of people in Playboy 1960-1969

References

External links

*playmate|1966|12
*imdb|id=0076396|name=Sue Bernard
*amg name|2:128919|Sue Bernard
* [http://www.bernardofhollywood.com/susans.html Susan's Salon Poolside]
*cite web
url=http://www.laweekly.com/a-considerable-town/10257/icon-love-susan-of-hollywood
publisher=LA Weekly
title=Love, Susan of Hollywood
date=2002-10-09
last=Goodyear
first=Dana
accessdate=2006-10-28