Janet Pilgrim

Infobox Playboy Playmate


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name = Janet Pilgrim
issue = July 1955
birthname =
birthplace = Wheaton, Illinois
birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1934|6|13
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bust = 36"D
waist = 24"
hips = 36"
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weight = convert|115|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
preceded = Eve Meyer
succeeded = Pat Lawler
website = Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Janet Pilgrim
issue = December 1955
deathdate =
preceded = Barbara Cameron
succeeded = Lynn Turner Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Janet Pilgrim
issue = October 1956
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preceded = Elsa Sorensen
succeeded = Betty Blue

Janet Pilgrim (born Charlaine Edith Karalus on June 13, 1934 in Wheaton, Illinois) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as "Playboy"'s Playboy Playmate of the Month three times: July 1955, December 1955 and October 1956.

As Charlaine Karalus, she worked in "Playboy"'s subscription department. Hugh Hefner talked her into posing nude for his magazine. Her stage name "Janet Pilgrim" was Hefner's pun on puritanism. For Hefner, Janet's "girl next door" qualities set the tone for future playmates.

She posed for a few hundred dollars (today the fee is $65,000 USD).

Trivia

* She is one of only two Playmates (the other being Marilyn Waltz / Margaret Scott) to be a three-time "Playboy" centerfold.
* She ranked #83 in Playboy's "Sex Stars of the Century".

Notable TV guest appearances

* "Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself
* " (1992) (V) .. Herself
* " (2000) (TV) .... Herself

ee also

* List of people in Playboy 1953-1959

External links

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* cite web
url=http://www.playboy.com/worldofplayboy/hmh/hefsladies/pilgrim.html
title=Hef's Special Ladies: Janet Pilgrim
publisher=Playboy.com
accessdate=2006-12-14