Margaret Scott Bio 
Margaret Scott was an American glamour and nude model. Born Marilyn Ardith Waltz on November 5, 1931, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, she has also been credited as Marilyn Ardith Jordan and Marilyn Waltz. Playboy named her its February 1954 Playmate at 22. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Scott had natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-23-34.
Margaret Scott’s place in Playboy history turned out to be more complicated than it first appeared. For decades, readers and collectors treated Scott as a separate model from Marilyn Waltz, but research in the 1990s established that the two names belonged to the same woman. What had looked like two different early Playmates was actually one recurring model working under more than one credit.
The confusion began with Playboy’s third issue. Hugh Hefner selected Scott’s photographs from the files of the John Baumgarth Calendar Company, one of the commercial image sources that supplied material during the magazine’s earliest months. The dressing-room pictorial proved popular with readers and reportedly generated a substantial volume of fan mail, making her one of the first models to demonstrate how strongly a single centerfold could resonate with Playboy’s emerging audience.
She soon returned under the Marilyn Waltz name. Her next appearance came in April 1954, followed by another in April 1955. Taken together, those appearances made her the first of the very small number of women to become a three-time Playboy Playmate.
That belated identification gives Scott’s story a particular archival fascination. Playboy’s earliest years were still informal enough for photographs, pseudonyms and commercial calendar material to move between publications without the meticulous attribution later readers would expect. Once Margaret Scott and Marilyn Waltz were recognized as the same woman, a small mystery in Playboy history disappeared—and one model’s unusually important place in the magazine’s formative years became much clearer.
