Morganna Roberts Bio
Morganna Roberts is an American-born adult model, exotic dancer, and entertainer. She was born on July 4, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Her zodiac sign is cancer. She is also known as Morganna the Kissing Bandit, Morganna the Wild One, Morganna Cottrell.
In June 1983, Morganna Roberts brought her signature glamour and star appeal to Playboy.
Morganna Roberts has big enhanced breasts, seductive green eyes, and luminous blond hair. With a voluptuous 48-24-39 frame, she's a true embodiment of Playboy allure.
Morganna Roberts turned a single mischievous dare into one of American sports culture’s most recognisable novelty acts. Her legend began at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field in August 1969, when she ran onto the diamond and kissed Pete Rose on the cheek. A newspaper headline christened her “the Kissing Bandit,” and the name followed her through three decades of surprise appearances at baseball games, basketball courts and hockey arenas. Her targets eventually included Johnny Bench, Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Steve Garvey, Cal Ripken Jr. and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Long before stadium crowds knew her nickname, Morganna had developed a successful nightclub act combining glamour, dancing and broad comedy. She never regarded herself simply as a sex symbol; her performances relied upon exaggerated costumes, jokes and an instinct for making an audience laugh. That playful theatricality distinguished her from conventional glamour personalities and made her well suited to talk shows, game shows and promotional appearances. She appeared on programs hosted by Johnny Carson and David Letterman and was a mystery guest on To Tell the Truth.
Playboy featured Morganna on three occasions: June 1983, April 1985 and September 1989. She appeared as a celebrity entertainer rather than as a Playmate of the Month. Her final and most substantial feature, “Ode to Morganna,” was photographed by Arny Freytag, with accompanying text by sportswriter Curry Kirkpatrick. Published when her Kissing Bandit persona was firmly established, the pictorial blended Playboy glamour with the humorous baseball mythology she had spent years creating.
Her celebrated measurements became part of that mythology. Morganna often promoted the memorable figure of 60-23-39 as her personal “baseball statistics,” while other profiles and early publicity materials supplied considerably different numbers. Such inconsistencies were typical of entertainment publicity, where a striking slogan mattered more than precise measurement. What remained consistent was the way Morganna treated her remarkable figure as a comic stage prop, surrounding it with self-deprecating jokes rather than relying upon beauty alone.
Morganna extended her personality into sports videos, television appearances and promotional work, even becoming a part-owner of the minor-league Utica Blue Sox. She appeared as herself in the Farrelly brothers’ 1996 bowling comedy Kingpin, one of her last prominent screen appearances before retiring around the end of the decade. ESPN later revisited her extraordinary career in the 2014 documentary Morganna: The Kissing Bandit. Her methods belonged to a looser era of stadium entertainment, but her legacy remains singular: part glamour model, part comedian and part unofficial mascot, she created a sports persona no publicist could have invented.
