Felicia Atkins Bio
Felicia Atkins was an Australian glamour model, showgirl, and actress. She was born on April 5, 1937, in Sydney, Australia. Playboy named her its April 1958 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Atkins had natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 40-26-37.
Her centerfold was photographed by Bruno Bernard and Bill Bridges, the pair framing the images with the poised, mid‑century composition that suited Atkins’s showgirl training. Those photographs emphasized the sculptural lines and stage polish she brought from the revue floor, translating a live performance sensibility into the still, editorial eye of the magazine.
Atkins spent the bulk of her career as a mainstay of the Tropicana's Las Vegas Folies Bergere, the long‑running revue where she not only performed but became a fixture—ultimately setting a record tenure of nineteen years. It was on that stage, amid the sequins and choreographed spectacle of the Tropicana production, that talent scouts took notice and her work moved from the showroom into print; the issue that featured her drew explicitly on Las Vegas imagery and the revue’s glamour.
Outside the spotlight of costume changes and publicity photos Atkins kept a social life threaded through old‑Hollywood circles. She served as maid of honor at the marriage of Phillip Crosby and fellow Tropicana performer Sandra Drummond, a role complicated and enlivened by the fact that she was then seeing Phillip’s brother, Gary Crosby. Those connections—professional, personal and theatrical—help sketch the world she inhabited: a performer whose identity was as much made by the stage she lived on as by the pages that captured her there.
