Eleanor Bradley Bio
Eleanor Bradley is an American glamour model, and fashion model. She was born on December 13, 1938, in Waukegan, Illinois. Playboy named her its February 1959 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Bradley has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 40-22-37.
Discovered while visiting her sister in Los Angeles, Bradley’s entry into the pages of men’s magazines arrived with a centerfold shot by Russ Meyer that played up a poised, quietly flirtatious camera manner. Meyer’s framing emphasized the naturalness the photographers of the era prized, and that image became the touchstone for much of her early visibility in the industry.
Rather than vanish after her pictorial, she remained a familiar presence on the promotional circuit, taking part in magazine-sponsored trips and public appearances. Television also offered her a regular spot: she was a recurring performer on the syndicated variety program Playboy’s Penthouse, a venue that folded magazine personalities into mainstream entertainment and kept her name before a broader audience during the early 1960s.
Outside the Playboy orbit Bradley broadened her portfolio with pictorial work for other men’s magazines in the early ’60s and sustained a steady career as a mainstream fashion and glamour model, largely working in the Midwest. Those assignments allowed her to move between commercial shoots and the more candid pages of gentleman’s publications without abandoning either lane.
Her association with the brand lasted into the next decade; she returned for the 1979 feature “Playmates Forever!,” posing again for the magazine and reminding readers of a photographed style that had first registered twenty years earlier. Though she did not pursue acting as a full-time pursuit, the combination of magazine, television and regional modeling work left a compact, recognizable résumé—one that kept her visible across two decades of shifting tastes.
