Dianne Chandler

Playboy Playmate of The Month for September 1966

Dianne Chandler Bio

Dianne Chandler is an American Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. She was born on December 31, 1946, in Berwyn, Illinois. Playboy named her its September 1966 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.

Chandler has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 37-24-37.

Photographed for her centerfold by Pompeo Posar, Dianne Chandler’s Playboy spread favored a poised, statuesque glamour that played her smile against carefully lit, classic portraiture. Posar’s framing gave the images a composed, almost cinematic quality—an approach that suited Chandler’s measured presence and helped the pictures read as more than a single-season novelty.

Her childhood carried a quieter, more changeable rhythm than the magazine frames suggest. Raised in a religious household, she experienced her parents’ divorce at an early age and moved to live with grandparents in Arkansas as a child, later returning to the Chicago area to finish high school. Those shifts between households and regions shaped a chaptered early life more than a straight trajectory into the spotlight.

College years brought the practical rhythm of work and study. While enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign she answered the call for evening work at the Playboy Club in Chicago, literally stepping into the costume and the company’s social world. That proximity to the magazine’s photographers and promotional apparatus turned into an opportunity: she paused her studies for a time to pursue modeling and promotional work, becoming a familiar face at club appearances and publicity functions in the Midwest.

In later decades Chandler remained connected to the circles that first introduced her to a national audience, attending reunions and club events and keeping a hand in entertainment culture. She moved to the Atlanta area and, by her own account in contemporary profiles, turned a long‑standing interest in film into regular reviewing work for Adult Video News. It is a tidy, practical coda: a centerfold that opened doors to steady work in and around the business that first photographed her.

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