Dolly Martin Bio
Dolly Martin is a British Playboy Bunny, actress, glamour and pin-up model. Born Margaret Read on September 13, 1944, in Bristol, United Kingdom, she has also been credited as Dolly Read and Dolly Read Martin. Playboy named her its May 1966 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Martin has natural breasts, blue eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 37-24-37.
Martin moved easily from centerfold to screen, arriving in Russ Meyer’s audacious melodrama Beyond the Valley of the Dolls as Kelly MacNamara — a wide‑eyed singer whose part called for equal measures of sweetness and theatrical bite. Her film work also included the 1969 low‑budget picture That Tender Touch, credits that placed her squarely in the late‑sixties, early‑seventies crossover between pop culture and camp cinema.
Television kept her in regular view after those movies. The 1970s brought guest turns on network series such as Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island and Vega$, and she became a familiar face on Match Game, where an English accent and quick repartee made for welcome studio banter. These appearances broadened a public persona that could move from the pin‑up frame to a laughing, talkative presence on commercial television.
Before the camera, she spent time working inside the Playboy Clubs, including assignments in Chicago, New York and London — experience that tied her to the brand beyond a single issue and, when the moment was right, brought her back for a second pictorial in 1970. Those pages and the clubs together map a career that mixed glossy photography, live performance and on‑screen bits in equal measure.
Offstage, her personal life intersected with comedy when she formed a long‑term relationship with comedian Dick Martin. Seen today through the twin lenses of cult film and syndicated television, her work exemplifies the period’s porous boundary between magazine glamour and mainstream entertainment — a modestly varied career that kept her in the public eye across formats and audiences.
