June Blair Bio
June Blair was an American glamour and nude model. She was born Margaret June Blair on October 20, 1932, in San Francisco, California. Playboy named her its January 1957 Playmate at 24. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Blair had natural breasts, green eyes and red hair. Her measurements are 34-24-35.
June Blair was already chasing an acting career when Playboy photographed her, and the timing gave the session a personal twist: her centerfold was shot on her birthday. Television had provided an early foothold, including work connected with Jimmy Durante, while appearances in other men’s magazines and pinup photography helped establish her camera presence. Playboy arrived during that same period, when Blair was moving steadily from modeling into more substantial screen work.
One of her first significant film roles came in Hell Bound, a 1957 film noir in which she played the female lead opposite John Russell and Stuart Whitman. Supporting roles followed in the Western Lone Texan and the exotic adventure Island of Lost Women. Blair also worked under contract to 20th Century Fox before obtaining a release and moving on to Screen Gems, where television offered a wider range of guest appearances.
Her later credits included The Texan, Sea Hunt and Two Faces West, along with film roles in The Rabbit Trap and A Fever in the Blood. The work gave Blair a genuine acting career rather than leaving her confined to the decorative roles Hollywood so often handed attractive young performers of the period.
Her most enduring television chapter began after she married actor David Nelson in 1961. Blair subsequently joined The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, playing David’s on-screen wife across 28 episodes. The unusual overlap between real marriage and television family life made the role far more memorable than a conventional guest spot.
Blair left show business in 1966 and devoted more of her time to family and painting. She died in 2022 at the age of 90. Her Playboy appearance belongs to the beginning of a career that quickly moved into film noir, Westerns and network television, but the lasting image is broader: a working actress who used glamour as one part of a larger screen career and eventually stepped away from Hollywood on her own terms.
