Marilyn Lange Discussion

[BetterBlue]

MARILYN LANGE (PMOM 5-74, PMOY 75)
BUST: 39
HEIGHT: 5'7"
WEIGHT: 130
BIRTH DATE: 1-12-52
BIRTHPLACE: WESTFIELD, NJ


We need a Marilyn Lange Discussion Thread!

Post your thoughts on Marilyn from your 1st memories seeing her in Playboy, what set her apart from other models, and anything else you'd like to talk about.

[BetterBlue]

If only they had the Video Centerfold back in 1975 when she became PMOY. Here is how I kind of imagine the setting would be. 1st, great shots of the Hawaii Islands, and the beautiful beaches.

"An oasis like nowhere on Earth. Well, maybe just one...and her name is Marilyn Lange."

Zoom in on Marilyn's amazing smile and long curly golden brown hair, up to those penetrating eyes. She looks at the camera and walks by. Next, she is on the beach walking as the waves come up to her feet. Wearing a bikini (of course). Her voice is then in the background talking about growing up in New Jersey, and how she came to Hawaii. She giggles and laughs as we get another shot of her face, she blows a kiss to the camera and it fades out slowly....

Next scene? Please add yours!

[Flowerpot Man]

Cut to Marilyn undoing the top of her bikini, slowly revealing first one and then the other of her huge 39 inch tits, which have a hint of a tan line but chiefly have such firmness and shape, and such gorgeous nipples! She smiles her enigmatic but welcoming smile and walks some more in the surf. She laughs again and removes her bottom, slowly, slowly till we see her tan line and black bush. Then she slowly stretches her leggy frame, smiling some more, and lies down in the surf as we fade out again . . . .

[pbuw]

Fade in to Marilyn as she stands up along the surf. Her back is turned to the camera and as we see her beautiful ass, she looks over her shoulder, smiles, and with her right hand index finger, she motions us to join her. She starts to proceed forward towards the ocean slowly, and after a close up of her ass, she notices a wave and makes a nice surface dive into the water. Cut to the ocean as we see Marilyn swimming smoothy underwater, her 39's bouncing nicely and erect, as she descends a little deeper, blowing a few bubbles realizing that she needs to go back up to surface, and as she does, a nice look at her ass as it moves nicely in the water. We see an underwater shot of her treading, then cut to her exiting the ocean, her 39's bouncing in rhythm as she walks, and then a look at her ass as she walks away along the beach as we fade out.

[boobman215]

Originally Posted by BetterBlue

MARILYN LANGE (PMOM 5-74, PMOY 75)
BUST: 39
HEIGHT: 5'7"
WEIGHT: 130
BIRTH DATE: 1-12-52
BIRTHPLACE: WESTFIELD, NJ


We need a Marilyn Lange Discussion Thread!

Post your thoughts on Marilyn from your 1st memories seeing her in Playboy, what set her apart from other models, and anything else you'd like to talk about.

I remember being struck by Marilyn's incredibly beautiful smile combined with her massive naturals. The text with her pictorial made her seem like such a free spirit who was very erotic and must have been the ideal girlfriend in her prime.

For some reason I've always been interested in knowing the hometowns of PlMs. A few years ago I attended a wedding in New Jersey. As I got off on my exit the sign said "Westfield." An alarm went off in my head: "Marilyn Lange!" I kept expecting there to be a statue of her in the town hall. Surely she has represented the town better than anyone else. Alas there was no statue. In my rankings of favorite PMs, Marilyn is numero uno.

[BetterBlue]

Says Playmate of Year "I Want People To See Me For Myself"

Miss Lange says her only hangup is when the public makes rude and suggestive remarks about her posing in the nude. "Men don't say ugly things to their wives or girlfriends, and I resent it when they make snide remarks about me," she says. "I wish they could know me and not just what they see in magazines." When asked about her measurements, it was evident that this was another hangup. "When I'm asked, I say 'I'll give you my waist and hip measurements', and people aren't too pleased," she says. "But I want them to see me as I am and not my measurements. As a matter of fact, I don't even know my measurements."

Even in her capacity as Playmate of the Year, Miss Lange doesn't feel "she owes it to her public", who only want to know out of curiousity. With time drawing near for her to give up her title, Miss Lange seems to be looking forward to getting back to a more serene life. "I was majoring in accounting at school in Hawaii, but after my experiences as Playmate, I hope to go into advertising." Miss Lange was "discovered" about three years ago when she and a friend, who were residing in Hawaii, decided to tour the United States. One stop was at the Playboy Building in Chicago, where a photographer friend asked her to pose for the European version of Playboy magazine, Ouy. Playboy magazine was impressed with the pictures, and within a few days she began posing for a Playboy layout. It took about four months to pose for the Miss May layout. "I returned to Hawaii and was called to Chicago once a week every month for pictures," she recalls. On several occasions she has been the house guest of Hugh Hefner himself at both his homes in Chicago and Los Angeles, but admits she only knows him as a host. "He's on the conservative side," says Miss Lange, "and is the perfect host." At the time she was chosen as a Playgirl, Playboy wanted to change its image and promote wholesome, All - American looking girls. Miss Lange fits this description and wear little, if any, make - up. From the the twelve girls that appear in Playboy during the year, one is chosen by Hefner himself to be Playmate of the Year. Miss Lange 's title will expire on May 9 when she turns the title over to another Playgirl in New York. She admits that she's ready to relinquish her title. "I have been asked to continue promotional work for Playboy, but I'm ready to give it up," she says. She may go into a career job for a period before trying to continue her education.

One wonders how parents react when all of a sudden Daughter is posed in a centerfold layout. "My parents didn't like it at first. They wondered what kind of a person I would become, but after I took Mother to Chicago for a visit, she changed her mind. She saw the other side of the business," relates Miss Lange. "My father, however, still doesn't like going into a barber shop and seeing my picture on a calendar." immediate plans include promotional travels until May. Once married, she doesn't see another marriage in the future. She has turned down parts in movies, and claims she's not an actress and has no plans to pursue a career along those lines. "It has its good points and bad points," says Marilyn Lange when relating her experiences as Playmate of the Year. Miss Lange, a 24 - year - old native of New Jersey, is in Burlington a few days and says the best part about being Miss May 1974 of Playboy magazine and going on to become Playmate of the Year has been the opportunity to travel not only to larger cities but to smaller towns all over the United States. She came to Burlington from Medford, Ore., and will leave for Montreal, Canada, in a few days. She appears mostly in custom car shows and does promotional work and is usually billed with such personalities as Batman and Robin and Rhoda's television husband, Joe. Some of the bad points, she has found, is not being able to complete her education and being away from her boyfriend, who is living in Chicago where she now makes her home. "I crave learning, but not a degree," says Miss Lange, who has two and a half more years of college.

[BUSTYFAN1947]

Just checking on a point, did someone comment on her cup/bust size as a 39DD? Just thought I'd check as some post of her simply don't state her bust/cup size that large. BTW, what has become of her?

[SouthernMaster]

Originally Posted by BUSTYFAN1947

Just checking on a point, did someone comment on her cup/bust size as a 39DD? Just thought I'd check as some post of her simply don't state her bust/cup size that large. BTW, what has become of her?

I have repeatedly seen her bust listed at 39DDD. Also, I did see an amateur & unposed pic of Marilyn taken a few years ago when she was in her mid 50's. It was an outdoor pic & 3 other people were in the photo. She just looked like an average woman of her age; not bad, but no wow factor either. But she still is my all-time favorite Playmate.

[BUSTYFAN1947]

Wonder how she looks at 50?

[BetterBlue]

(Some more insight into the controversy around Marilyn being drafted by the Sting, and what happened when Chicago WNBC interviewed the Sting's GM Jim Walker about drafting her.)


That's so NASL: The time the Chicago Sting decided to draft a Playboy Bunny

Quite satisfied with his team’s five selections in the opening three rounds of the 1976 North American Soccer League college draft that Jan. 14, Chicago Sting and general manager Jim Walker decided to shake things up, make some history and get the second-year soccer team some publicity.

When the Sting's turn came around in the fourth round, Walker announced Chicago's selection on the conference call.

"Marilyn Lange, forward; Hawaii," he said matter-of-factly.

Silence.

Commissioner Phil Woosman, who was on the line, made Walker repeat that name five times.

"What was the first name? What was the last name? How do you spell the first name?" Woosnam asked, Dallas Tornado general manager Dick Berg then spoke up. "It's a girl!" he exclaimed.

"As if we just had a baby," Walker remembered, adding that "Phil said something like, 'We're not going to make a joke of this.'

"He was pretty pissed, actually.”

That’s how Lange became the first woman selected in a draft by a U.S. professional soccer team that day. Oh, and Lange also happened to be the 1975 Playboy Playmate of the Year.

Woosnam certainly could not have been peeved about the attention the publicity-starved league received from that news. Instead of being relegated to a paragraph in most newspapers, this draft received unprecedented publicity. Many papers published a short story and a picture of Lange with an NASL ball. In Zander Hollander's 1976 “The Complete Handbook of Soccer,” Lange was the only draftee pictured with a rundown of the draft.

Few fans remember that Brown University midfielder Steve Ralbovsky, the MAC Hermann Trophy winner, was the first player taken in that draft by the Los Angeles Aztecs.

While playing was the longest of longshots, the Sting was had hoped to use Lange in promotions.

"Marilyn has a soccer background in Hawaii," Walker said then. "Women are becoming more and more involved in pro sports.

"As for signing her, we'll sit down and talk and see what develops."

The 23-year-old Lange realized her limitations. "I've seen the Sting. There's all guys on that team. We practiced three times a week and played our games on weekend," she told reporters. "But that was girls. I wouldn't want to play against the guys the Sting play. They're too rough.”

Actually, Lange already had a relationship with the Sting, taking the ceremonial kickoff in May 1975 for a game against the Aztecs at Soldier Field. After every game the team would have a post-match party with players, their wives, club officials and fans at McCormick Place.

"She showed up at the games," Walker said. "She wasn't like a celebrity at all. She was real friendly."

That positive experience gave the Sting an idea.

"When the draft thing came up, her name popped up and it was kind of a natural thing because we also had her come out and take pictures with our team in our uniform, taking the ball," Walker said. "I think there was a shot of her and [head coach] Bill Foulkes in a magazine, maybe Time magazine, may have carried [that] picture."

Lange was born on Jan. 12, 1952 (she turns 65 on Thursday, the day of the National Women's Soccer League college draft in Los Angeles) and was raised in Westfield, N.J. She admitted she was a bit introverted.

Six months after graduating from high school, Lange married a rock musician but eventually got divorced. While living in Hawaii, she took up soccer. When she visited Chicago, her boyfriend, Kip Palmer, convinced her to model for Playboy.

Not only was she the Playmate of the Month for May 1974, Lange was selected as Playmate of the Year, earning $10,000, a Porsche 911 and a Kawasaki 100 motorcycle.

Lange never got an opportunity to work for the Sting.

A week after the draft, Tim Weigel, a sportscaster for the Chicago WNBC affiliate (Channel 5), interviewed Walker about the team's unique selection.

"She was very excited and said this was the first time she's ever been drafted," Walker told Weigel on a taped segment.

The station, however, decided to bleep the word drafted, leaving it to the viewer's imagination.

"What is so cheap and disgusting is that NBC Sports bleeped the word 'drafted,' implying that Marilyn had said something censorable," a Playboy spokesman told the Chicago Tribune.

To which an executive at the TV station replied, "Weigel was just trying to have some fun."

It was no fun for the Sting or Playboy, which banned Lange from participating with the team.

"The lady we were dealing with was really mad," Walker said. "She said, 'We're not going to cooperate any more with this as far as her having her do appearances."

The Sting had no way of contacting Lange after her contractual obligations with Playboy were completed.

Not much is known about Lange after that as she shied away from publicity. A Playboy Enterprises spokesperson said the organization did not have any contact information.

As it turned out, Lange wasn't the only woman taken in the draft that day. Defending champion Tampa Bay Rowdies made B.J. Woodward of the University of North Carolina the 80th and final pick of the draft. Because of her initials -- her name is Betty Jo – no one originally suspected Woodward was a woman.

Tampa had an unofficial scout on the East Coast, Dr. John McKeon, who had coached at East Stroudsburg and searched for college players -- men and women.

"We thought it would make sense for us to counteract what the Sting did with a legitimate female player that will not be embarrassed to come to training camp and that will get a lot of publicity," said Francisco Marcos, who was vice president of player personnel and public relations. "We knew that she was a real player at the time."

In 1976, the Tar Heels had a soccer club and not a team, and were three years away from Anson Dorrance becoming coach and directing North Carolina to the first of its 21 NCAA championships in 1982. Title XI, created in 1972, was still in its infancy.

Unlike Lange, Woodward got an opportunity to train with the Rowdies several weeks later.

"She did not embarrass herself in any means," Marcos said. "She could play. Could she play against guys in those days that were very physical by comparison today? Different story. I remember she pretty sure took home one of the original Rowdies jerseys, with a name on the back because we wanted it to be memorable."