Marilyn Waltz Bio
Marilyn Waltz was an American glamour and nude model. Born Marilyn Ardith Waltz on November 5, 1931, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, she has also been credited as Margaret Scott. Playboy named her its April 1955 Playmate at 23. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Waltz had natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-23-34.
Waltz quietly complicated the tidy narratives of early magazine stardom. Decades after the issues first appeared, researchers established that the pictures bearing her likeness ran under two names across the mid‑1950s—an unusual publishing footprint that ultimately made her one of Playboy’s rare three‑time Playmates.
That dual identity was literal on the newsstand: an early pictorial appeared under the name Margaret Scott in February 1954, while another issue from the same year carried Marilyn Waltz’s credit. The two mypmates pages that record those runs underline how the magazine, its readers, and its record‑keepers long treated a single performer as separate presences; the overlap was not widely recognized until the mid‑1990s. February 1954 and April 1954 issues still serve as the clearest record of that curious chapter.
Her first appearance as Margaret Scott generated an extraordinary response at the time: according to contemporary accounts reproduced in the archive, it drew the most fan mail of any Playmate that year—an old‑fashioned measure of popularity that helps explain why the magazine kept returning to her images. Beyond pinup work, she pursued performance in modestly visible ways, taking singing and commercial acting assignments before stepping away from full‑time entertainment.
Waltz’s later life turned to a different kind of public service: she built a second career in real estate, first in Southern California and later in Oregon, retiring from that work in 1996. The arc—from midcentury pinup under two names to working professional and retiree—keeps her story from settling into a single label and preserves her as a small, intriguing presence in Playboy’s formative years.
