Colleen Farrington Bio 
Colleen Farrington was an American and nightclub singer. Born Colleen Leigh Violet Farrington on August 5, 1936, in Davisboro, Georgia, she has also been credited as Colleen Price. Playboy named her its October 1957 Playmate at 21. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Farrington had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 38-25-35.
Before her centerfold moment, Colleen Farrington made a name in Manhattan’s fashion world, working as a successful model whose looks and poise caught the attention of designers. She is recorded as a favored muse of Oleg Cassini, a connection that places her squarely within the polished, couture-minded circles that fed midcentury magazine imagery.
Her Playboy pictorial, shot by Peter Basch, carries a few unusual details for the era. The shoot captures Farrington in three distinct hair colors — blonde, brunette and red — a small demonstration of the kind of versatility commercial modeling demanded. More strikingly, she was pregnant with her first child during the session, a fact that lends the spread a quietly unexpected human note amid the otherwise carefully staged glamour.
That child would grow into another kind of public figure: Farrington was the mother of Academy Award–nominated actress Diane Lane, an intergenerational link between the pages of glossy magazines and the red carpets of later decades.
Alongside modeling, Farrington worked as a nightclub singer, bringing a performance element to a career already split between runway and portrait. The combination of fashion-room polish, a voice for the late-night stage, and the uncommon detail of a pregnant pictorial lend her biography a texture that belongs as much to the business of image-making as to the personal rhythms behind it — a midcentury portrait in which professional style and private circumstance meet on camera.
