Lynn Turner Bio
Lynn Turner is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on December 1, 1935, in Salinas, California. Playboy named her its January 1956 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Turner has natural breasts, green eyes and red hair. Her measurements are 38-24-37.
Lynn Turner’s centerfold was captured by Peter Gowland and, by the account of contemporary notes, served as the first of his extensive collaborations with Playboy. The picture’s clean composition and unhurried poise helped establish a quietly elevated frame for the magazine’s pictorials—an early example of Playboy’s effort to treat glamour photography with a commercial eye for elegance as well as appeal.
Outside that centerfold, Turner was a sought-after presence in the men’s magazines that flourished in the 1950s. She appeared in Frolic, Jest and Modern Man Quarterly, where her radiant smile and assured presence made her a reliable favorite with photographers and readers, the kind of face that suited both staged glamour and the looser, magazine-by-magazine personality of the era.
Decades on, Turner remains a remembered figure from Playboy’s formative years, her work cited among the small set of images and collaborations that helped the publication refine its visual tone.
