Playboy Magazine

The magazine Playboy has a long associated history with the James Bond series.

Short Stories Several Ian Fleming short stories were published in Playboy:
The Hildebrand Rarity was first published in Playboy in March 1960
The Property of a Lady was published in Playboy in 1964.
Octopussy was first serialised in the March and April 1966 issues of Playboy magazine

The following Bond novels by Raymond Benson were first published in Playboy:
Blast from the Past - First publication: Playboy, January 1997 issue
Midsummer Night's Doom - First publication: Playboy, January 1999 issue. Midsummer Night's Doom is a special story commissioned to help celebrate Playboy's 45th anniversary, featuring Playboy Playmate Lisa Dergan. She is, to date, the only real-life person to be featured as a Bond girl in any literary Bond story.

Movie appearances
A Playboy magazine can be seen quite clearly in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The issue of Playboy that James Bond (George Lazenby) is reading whilst cracking Gebrüder Gumbold law firm safe in Bern, Switserland, is the February 1969 issue, with Lorrie Menconi as the Playmate. Her centrefold can be seen briefly as 007 is walking out of the office. See below for the cover.

In the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever, it is revealed that Bond is a member of the London Playboy Club.

Playmates and Bond girls
A Dutch adult magazine model, Rachel ter Horst, who appeared in many Playboy magazine issues and books, made a brief appearence in the 1995 movie GoldenEye, as a glamorous casino girl.

Gloria Hendry, Bond girl Rosie Carver in the James Bond film Live and Let Die, was a Playboy Bunny.

February 1967, "The girls of Casino Royale" with Woody Allen & Joanne Pettet (promotional 13-Page pictorial for the 1967 spoof movie Casino Royale), page 109-122

Jill St. John, Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), posed for Playboy in March 1960, the same issue that published for the first time a Ian Fleming novel, The Hildebrand Rarity, in their pages.

Ursula Andress, who played Honey Ryder in Dr. No appeared in the July 1965 issue of Playboy.

Barbara Bach, who plays Major Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), posed for Playboy to promote the film.

Maryam D'Abo, who plays Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights (1987), posed for Playboy to promote the film.

Denise Richards, who plays Doctor Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough (1999), posed for Playboy in the 2004 Christmas issue.

Bond actors in Playboy Magazine
Sean Connery was interviewed in the November 1965 issue on the set of Thunderball. Read the interview on Thunderball Obsessional.

An in-depth interview with Pierce Brosnan, after he was told that he was too old for the Bond role, in the December 2005 Playboy issue. Read more about this article on CommanderBond.net

All cover scans by MagazineShopOnline

Playboy Magazine, november 1965
Playmate of the Month Pat Russo photographed by Pompeo Posar. Interview Sean Connery. Features James Bond's Girls Ursula Andress, Daniela Bianchi, Tania Mallett, Nadja Regin, Lois Maxwell, Margaret Nolan, Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman, Maggie Wright, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paoluzzi, Martine Beswick and Molly Peters. Beth Hyatt (cover) photographed by Pompeo Posar.

Playboy Magazine, February 1969
The issue that can be seen in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. When James Bond (George Lazenby) is cracking Gebrüder Gumbold law firm safe in Bern, Switserland, he is reading this February 1969 issue, with Playboy's Playmate of the Month Lorrie Menconi photographed by Bill Figge and Ed Delong.

Playboy Magazine, July 1973
Bond Gets Sainted! Roger Moore as 007 In Live and Let Die. Pictorial is of James Bond's girls.

Playboy Magazine, July 1979
Playboy July 1979 has a special Bond inspired cover. Playmate of the Month: Dorothy Mays photographed by Richard Fegley. Interview Joseph Wambaugh by Lawrence Linderman. Features Moonraker, New Women for 007, Corinne Clery photograhed by Alberta Tiburzzi, Catherine Serre, Chichinou Kaeppler, Christina Hui, Irka Bochenko, Nicaise Jean Louis and Francoise Gayat photographed by Richard Fegley. Denise Gauthier (cover) photographed by Tom Staebler, Patti McGuire.

Playboy Magazine, December 2005
This issue has an interview with Pierce Brosnan about Bond and beyond, after he found out that the Bond producers didn't want him anymore as 007.