Marilyn Hanold Bio
Marilyn Hanold is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Marlyn S. Hanold on June 9, 1938, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its June 1959 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Hanold has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 40-26-38.
Marilyn Hanold took an unconventional route into show business. After graduating from secretarial school, she spent roughly 18 months working for a patent attorney before exchanging the office for Las Vegas. In 1957 she joined the chorus line at the El Rancho, later appeared in its Scandalettes revue and worked as a showgirl at Ciro’s and Frank Sennes’ Moulin Rouge in Hollywood. It was there that a William Morris representative noticed her and recruited her for George Gobel’s Riviera Revue.
Gobel gave Hanold one of her most memorable early stage bits. In his nightclub act, he joked about employing an assistant solely to look after his guitar, then called for “Charlie,” prompting Hanold to make her entrance. The nickname became part of the routine even though there was nothing Charlie about her real identity. She also appeared with Gobel in The Birds and the Bees, adding film work to a career already divided between nightclub stages and modeling.
By 1959, Hanold’s photographs were circulating beyond the showgirl circuit; she appeared on the cover of Photo Life before Bruno Bernard photographed her Playboy centerfold. Bernard’s experience with Hollywood portraiture suited a performer already accustomed to carefully staged entrances and camera-ready presentation. The Playboy assignment became another highly visible stop rather than an isolated introduction to glamour work.
Hanold continued acting through the late 1950s and 1960s, accumulating appearances in film and television while maintaining the polished show-business identity she had developed in Las Vegas and Hollywood. Her interests outside the studio were considerably more outdoorsy: hunting and water skiing were among the pursuits Playboy singled out, an energetic counterpoint to the gowns, nightclub lights and posed photography associated with her professional image.
In 1967, Hanold married Rulon Keaton Neilson, president of Skyline Oil Company, and the couple had three daughters. Her public life gradually moved away from acting and modeling, and she later became associated with charitable and gala events in the Salt Lake City area. The career that had begun behind a legal secretary’s desk ultimately passed through Las Vegas revues, George Gobel’s comedy act, film, television and Playboy—a distinctly mid-century route into Hollywood, with “Charlie” only one of the characters she picked up along the way.
