Marilyn Lange Bio 
Marilyn Lange is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on January 12, 1952, in Westfield, New Jersey. Playboy named her its May 1974 Playmate at 22. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1975. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Lange has natural breasts, gray eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-24-36.
Marilyn Lange’s life had already taken an abrupt turn before Playboy entered the picture. Married at 18 to a rock musician, she soon divorced, left school and headed for Hawaii, where Waikiki offered a considerable change from New Jersey. There she became involved with a pianist named Kip and began imagining a future that remained deliberately open-ended. Lange talked about studying at the University of Hawaii and regretted not taking more biology and science in school; given another chance, she said, she might have worked toward becoming a veterinarian.
Hawaii suited both her temperament and her interests. Lange played soccer, tended a vegetable garden, cooked and pursued modeling work while living in Honolulu among mango, papaya and avocado trees. She also stopped eating meat after conversations with Hare Krishna practitioners prompted her to think about karma and the treatment of animals. For all the tropical idyll, she did not romanticize Hawaii as a permanent escape. New York was already under consideration as a temporary base for modeling, and she admitted that choosing one career from so many possibilities remained difficult.
Her Playboy photographs were the work of Dwight Hooker, who photographed both her 1974 centerfold and the pictorial that accompanied her 1975 Playmate of the Year recognition. The pairing gave Lange an unusually consistent visual record across two important Playboy appearances, with the same photographer returning to interpret her a year later rather than handing the assignment to a new creative team.
Soccer produced the strangest footnote in her public career. In the 1976 North American Soccer League draft, the Chicago Sting selected Lange in the final round as a publicity stunt. She never appeared for the team as a player, but the connection did not end with the headline: she subsequently worked in the Sting’s promotions department. It was the sort of distinctly 1970s crossover—Playboy, professional sports and publicity spectacle—that would be difficult to imagine emerging quite the same way in another era.
What comes through most strongly in Lange’s Playboy interviews is not a fixed plan but a willingness to keep revising one. She spoke seriously about relationships, preferred leaving something to the imagination in an increasingly candid culture, and resisted treating sex as disposable. At the same time, she was gardening in Honolulu, considering university, contemplating New York modeling and finding herself drafted by a professional soccer club. Lange’s Playboy years capture someone very much in motion, testing different versions of adulthood rather than pretending she had already settled on one.
