Dorothy Mays Bio
Dorothy Mays is a German actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on July 24, 1957, in Nuremberg, Germany. Playboy named her its July 1979 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Mays has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-25-34.
Her centerfold, photographed by Richard Fegley, arrived from someone who already cut hair for a living rather than someone stepping into glamour as a hobby. By then she was working behind the chair at Head First in Glen Burnie, Maryland, a practical profession that quietly shaped the way she presented herself on camera and in print.
Contemporary reporting described her as a Baltimore‑area haircutter whose Playmate fee was $10,000; she planned to put that money toward opening her own shop. The notion of using a magazine assignment as seed capital—saving a trade’s earnings to build a small business—gave her profile a distinctly entrepreneurial note uncommon in the standard centerfold backstory.
Before the national exposure she had already collected regional titles, including Miss Van Festival in Richmond and Miss Georgetown.
What gives the portrait its unexpected edge is a long‑term wish that sounds nothing like studio gloss: she wrote that she hoped one day to run a farm with horses and cows, grow and sell her own vegetables and “live happily ever after.” That rural plan, set against a working life as a stylist and a short, decisive flirtation with national attention, is the clearest thing she left on the record—a modest, specific ambition that steadies the image as much as any photographer’s light.
