Diane Webber

Playboy Playmate of The Month for February 1956

Diane Webber Bio Editors Choice

Diane Webber was an American glamour model, belly dancer, and actress. Born Marguerite Diane Empey on July 29, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, she has also been credited as Marguerite Empey. Playboy named her its February 1956 Playmate at 23. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.

Webber had natural breasts, green eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-23-37.

Webber's relationship with the magazine began earlier than many realize: an elegant May 1955 centerfold—photographed by Bunny Yeager—preceded the better-known February 1956 Playmate feature, a return that underlined how the magazine reused and refined its own visual language in those early years. The Yeager images framed her statuesque lines and a composed, almost classical bearing that read as much like portraiture as pinup work.

Away from the studio lights she cultivated a parallel life as a dedicated performer and teacher of Middle Eastern dance. Over the 1950s and into the following decade she taught, toured nightclub and studio circuits, and helped introduce American audiences to the form’s theatrical possibilities, moving it beyond exotic novelty into a sustained performance practice.

Webber also tried her hand at on-screen work, with brief appearances in films and television across the 1950s and 1960s. Though the credits were seldom starring parts, they reinforced a screen presence shaped by poise and a background in performance rather than commercial modeling alone.

Later pages and lifeways broadened the picture: she associated with naturist and body-positive publications that argued for an unhysterical view of the unclothed body and individual freedom of expression. That strand of her public life, alongside the dance and the camera work, left a portrait of a woman comfortable moving between staged glamour, staged movement and a modestly outspoken public stance on naturalism—an uncommon mix in mid-century American popular culture.

Diane Webber Playboy Gallery