DETAILS: Original gelatin silver photograph. Circa 1950. Measures approximately 5"x 4"inches. Please see images for condition details. 



BIOGRAPHY:  Diane Webber (1932 – 2008) was an American model, dancer and actress. She was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, the daughter of Marguerite Andrus, a Hollywood actress and former Miss Long Beach beauty contest winner, and Arthur Guy Empey.  In the early 1950s, while developing her professional modeling career, she found employment as a chorus girl at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco. As the decade progressed, she modeled for many professional photographers, including Peter Gowland, Bunny Yeager and Keith Bernard, appearing in a myriad of men's magazines, such as Esquire, and commercial advertising imagery. Under the name Marguerite Empey, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in both May 1955 and February 1956. The photo shoot for the 1956 publication was shot by Russ Meyer. When she posed for Playboy the second time, Hugh Hefner didn't even recognize her as a Playmate from the previous year.



 





 

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