Gail Stanton Bio
Gail Stanton was an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Brenda Gail Stone on November 19, 1954, in Memphis, Tennessee, she has also been credited as Gail Stone-Stanton. Playboy named her its June 1978 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Stanton had natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-22-34.
Her relationship with the magazine began before the centerfold that would later bring her wider notice: she first appeared in an April 1977 pictorial titled “Girls of the New South,” and the Playmate centerfold was photographed by David Chan—two concrete moments that moved her from regional work into national pages.
Stanton arrived in front of cameras with a background rooted in straightforward commercial shoots. A former high‑school cheerleader, she parlayed that fresh, camera‑ready presence into promotional work and television commercials, the everyday assignments that kept many models in steady demand between magazine features.
The early 1980s added a different kind of credential: she held the promotional title Miss Michelob Lite, a period honor that matched the era’s crossover of advertising and glamour. An oft‑repeated anecdote from those years places her briefly in the orbit of rock‑and‑roll celebrity—she went on a few dates with Elvis Presley while working as a young model—an item that belongs to the lighter, human side of a public life built on visibility.
Credits beyond print include a screen appearance in the 1984 comedy Making the Grade, a modest but verifiable turn that rounded out a résumé otherwise concentrated in modeling and promotional work. Taken together, Stanton’s path traces a familiar route of the time: regional promotion, magazine exposure, a branded title and an occasional film credit—small shifts that kept a working model working across several corners of the public eye.
