The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success. Hefner chose what he deemed the "sexiest" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy.
The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering "Top Hat", "Gentleman", "Sir'", "Satyr", "Pan" and "Bachelor" before Sellers suggested "Playboy". However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner eventually raised just over $8,000, including from his brother and mother. He formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors. Ĭenterfold of Marilyn Monroe from the first issue of Playboy, December 1953īy spring 1953, Hugh Hefner-a 1949 University of Illinois psychology graduate who had worked in Chicago for Esquire magazine writing promotional copy Publisher's Development Corporation in sales and marketing and Children's Activities magazine as circulation promotions manager -had planned out the elements of his own magazine, that he would call Stag Party. The magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities. Playboy features monthly interviews of notable public figures, such as artists, architects, economists, composers, conductors, film directors, journalists, novelists, playwrights, religious figures, politicians, athletes, and race car drivers. With a regular display of full-page color cartoons, it became a showcase for notable cartoonists, including Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Erich Sokol, Roy Raymonde, Gahan Wilson, and Rowland B. Wodehouse, Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Margaret Atwood. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. The magazine has a long history of publishing short stories by novelists such as Arthur C. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models ( Playmates), Playboy played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. Lua error in Module:Official_website at line 90: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). "San Juan Businessman Found Guilty of Killing Partner". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. "Archive for April 16, 2004Las Vegas Sun News".
You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 4,489 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the French article.
0 kommentar(er)
