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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1963. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Judi Monterey (born January 12, 1944, in Bell, California) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1963 issue.

Her centerfold is photographed by Peter Gowland.

February

Toni Ann Thomas (born April 15, 1944, in Huntington Park, California) is an American model who is best known for her appearance as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. In 1969 she was named Playmate of the Decade.

March

Adrienne Moreau (born July 5, 1941, in Trenton, New Jersey) is a French-American model who is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck.

April

Sandra Settani (born February 18, 1938, in Wisconsin) is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager.

May

Sharon Cintron (born January 16, 1945, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. She later appeared in a season two episode of The Monkees called "Some Like it Lukewarm". She also held a recurring role on the TV series Baretta.

Sharon died on July 31, 2017, in Prescott, AZ after a short battle with cancer. She was 72.

June

Connie Mason (born August 24, 1937, in Washington, D.C.) is an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. She was also a Playboy Bunny at the Chicago club.

July

Carrie Enwright White (August 25, 1943 – May 3, 2022) Born in Beverly Hills, California, Carrie was an American hairdresser, author, and spokesperson, who in her youth worked occasionally a model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.

Carrie died May 3, 2022 from cancer in Los Angeles, California. She was 78.

August

Phyllis Sherwood (born Phyllis Sowicki on September 30, 1937, in Niagara Falls, New York – April 16, 2007 in Davie, Florida) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.

Her real name was Phyllis Sowicki. She was born September 30, 1937, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. She moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1959 and worked at Miami's Playboy Club for two years where she donned a bunny outfit. She continued modeling, working with different photographers and traveling to cities as a Playboy bunny. She married Merrill Spivak in 1972.

She married Merrill Spivak and became a housewife and raised her two sons and daughter. Later, the family moved to Chicago, then moved back to South Florida in 1996. She resided in Davie, where she was co-owner of her husband's condo management business.

Phyllis died of lung cancer on April 16, 2007 in Davie, Florida, U.S. Phyllis was 69.

September

Victoria Valentino (born December 13, 1942) is an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1963 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.

Between 1967 and 1971, Valentino acted in an episode of the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and several low-budget films, using the names Vicki Carbe (and variations thereof) and Victoria Wales.

In November 2014, the 71-year-old Valentino came forward to allege comedian and actor Bill Cosby had drugged and raped her in 1970, shortly after the drowning death of her young son. Valentino is one of several women who have made public sexual-abuse allegations against Cosby Valentino was one of the five women interviewed in a Washington Post piece published on November 22, 2014, making her the sixteenth woman to come forward and speak out against Cosby. Valentino met Cosby shortly after the death of her son and claims that the comedian was trying to "cheer" her up over her loss. She was accompanied by her former roommate at the time, Meg Foster, and Cosby took the ladies to an apartment after dinner. According to Valentino, Cosby took advantage of her and Foster by drugging them with pills. From her recollection, Valentino noticed that Foster had passed out from the pills and that Cosby stood over Foster with an erection and a "predatory" look. "It was very clear to me that he was going to assault her while she was asleep or unconscious", Valentino alleged. "I reached out, grabbing him, trying to get his attention, trying to distract him. He came over to me and sat down on the love seat and opened his fly and grabbed my head and pushed my head down. And then he turned me over. It was like a waking nightmare." Valentino states that she has difficulties speaking about her sexual encounter with Bill Cosby, moreover, she did not come forward at the time because she felt that she had "little credibility."

October

Christine Williams (January 7, 1945 – November 22, 2017), Born in Basingstoke, England) is an English-American model, actress and artist who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1963 issue.

Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.

Christine died on November 22, 2017. No cause of death is listed.

November

Terre Tucker (Karen Smith) (October 9, 1944 – December 16, 1990) was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1963 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Stan Malinowski.

The newest edition of The Playmate Book reports that Terre died on December 16, 1990. Her cause of death listed as cervical cancer.

December

Donna Michelle (December 8, 1945 – April 9, 2004) was an American model, actress, and photographer. She was Playboy magazine's December 1963 Playmate of the Month and 1964 Playmate of the Year. Pompeo Posar and Edmund Leja photographed her centerfold images.

Donna died April 9, 2004, suffering a heart attack in a supermarket, at the age of 58.

See also

• List of people in Playboy 1960–1969

References

1. Steve Sullivan's Glamour Girls: The Illustrated Encyclopedia lists her birth year as 1944.
2. Terrace, Vincent (1985). Encyclopedia of Television: 1974–1984. ISBN 9780918432612. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
3. "Miss June 1963 Connie Mason". Playboy. PEI. Archived from the original on December 27, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
4. "Former Playboy model was loving wife and mother". The Miami Herald. Archived from the original on April 28, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
5. Martinez, Ani (April 20, 2007). "Obituaries: Phyllis Spivak, 69 – Former Playboy model was loving wife and mother". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on April 28, 2007.
6. "Bill Cosby's legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
7. McRady, Rachel (November 23, 2014). "Bill Cosby rape allegations: former playmate Victoria Valentino becomes the 16th victim to speak out". Us Weekly: News. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
8. "Playmate data". Retrieved February 7, 2010.

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