Elaine Reynolds

Playboy Playmate of The Month for October 1959

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Elaine Reynolds is an American Playboy model. She was born on September 7, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Playboy named her its October 1959 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.

Reynolds has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-25-37.

After her centerfold, Reynolds remained a visible presence in Playboy’s live world, working as a Playboy Bunny in the Chicago and Miami clubs and returning periodically to photographic assignments that kept her familiar to the magazine’s audience. Those club rooms let her translate pinup polish into performance: she learned to charm a room as readily as a camera, and her name circulated in the social circuits that sustained mid‑century glamour.

Offstage she pursued a streak of theatricality that cut against the era’s tidy expectations. She toured with Water Follies revues, trading still‑photograph glamour for synchronized movement and seaside spectacle, and even spent time in Spain studying the ritualized gestures of bullfighting—an unlikely apprenticeship that added a dash of danger to an otherwise studio‑polished résumé.

Her image continued to turn up in later popular culture: the centerfold itself makes a brief on‑screen appearance in Peter Weir’s 1989 film Dead Poets Society, a small, curious afterlife for a photograph first published in another decade.

Reynolds’ personal choices also became part of her story. She later elected to have breast‑reduction surgery, and for a time was cited in record listings as the largest‑breasted Playmate in Playboy history—an unusual footnote that, alongside her Water Follies work and her bullfighting lessons, helps explain why her name keeps surfacing in retrospectives of the magazine’s more theatrical mid‑century personalities.

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