Margie Harrison Bio
Margie Harrison was an American glamour and nude model. She was born on November 3, 1931, in Los Angeles, California. Playboy named her its January 1954 Playmate at 22. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Harrison had natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 36-26-37.
Margie Harrison’s image belongs to the early, experimental chapter of mid‑century pin‑up culture: her centerfold was produced as a John Baumgarth Company sequence, a commercial, calendar‑friendly approach that helped define how glamour photography occupied the middle of a magazine page. Even as other celebrities had already appeared in the publication’s pages, Harrison’s pictorial was presented as a full center spread, a format still finding its most effective expression.
The photographs themselves leaned toward the polished, accessible pin‑up look that Baumgarth’s work favored—cleanly lit, composed for reproduction, and easily transferable to calendars and popular prints. That commercial sensibility made her images useful to more than one market; copies turned up beyond the magazine in the pin‑up and glamour circuits that fed popular appetite for tasteful, widely circulated nudes.
Following her Playboy appearance, Harrison sustained a steady presence in that same marketplace. Contemporary notices and later recollections place her among the models who supplied pin‑up calendars and glamour shoots through the 1950s, work that kept her image in view of collectors and fans long after the original magazine run.
Her portraiture belongs to a moment when commercial photography, calendar art and the magazine centerfold were negotiating one another’s rules. Those convergences—studio craft, mass reproduction and the comfortable rhythms of midcentury pin‑up—are where Harrison’s pictures continue to look most at home.
