Virginia Gordon

Virginia Gordon (born October 28, 1936 in Chaplin, West Virginia)^[1] is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by .^[1]

Gordon's most significant film, in terms of cinema history, is 1962's Tonight for Sure, as it marks the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola.

Acting career[]

Gordon's acting roles were confined to appearing, mostly sans wardrobe, in a string of obscure sexploitation films produced for the adults-only grindhouse circuit. Her first three films, Once Upon a Knight (1961), written by Bob Cresse, (1962), directed by Lee Frost, and Tonight for Sure (1962), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, were standard "nudie cutie" comedies typical of the early sixties.

In 1968, Olympic International (created by the writer-director team of Frost and Cresse) produced the "roughie" thriller . Gordon has her most substantial and realistic role as a single mother terrorized and turned into an abused sex slave by a psychopath. That same year she starred in another Frost/Cresse film, , a violent roughie western in which her character suffers similar abuse.

Her last two films and The Muthers (both from 1968) were softcore "nudies" from prolific skinflick director Donald A. Davis.

Filmography[]

• The Muthers (1968) .... Lois
• (1968)
• (1968) .... Susan O'Hara
• (1968) .... Joan Clark
• Tonight for Sure (1962)
• (1962) .... Vultura
• (1961) .... Lady Lauri

See also[]

• List of people in Playboy 1953-1959

References[]

External links[]

• Virginia Gordon at Playboy Online
• Virginia Gordon at IMDb

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