Susan Bernard was Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli

Mario Casilli

Mario A. Casilli was a photographer for Playboy magazine.From 1962 until 1981 he photographed 57 Playmate pictorials, including Playmates of the Year Linda Gamble, Christa Speck, Jo Collins, Connie Kreski, Claudia Jennings and Dorothy Stratten...

 and her father Bruno Bernard.

Bernard had a sporadic film and television career, appearing for one season of General Hospital

General Hospital

General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

in the late 1960s and in small parts in series television. In most of her work, she was credited as Sue Bernard.

She posed for Playboy while working on the Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....

 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 exploitation film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran. It stars Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams....

. She was believed to be the first Jewish

American Jews

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 Playmate of the month, though in recent years Cindy Fuller, Miss May 1959, has claimed that she was the first Jewish Playmate. In an interview in the August 1998 issue of Femme Fatales

Femme Fatales (magazine)

Femme Fatales is an American men's magazine focusing on film and television actresses.Femme Fatales was founded by Frederick S. Clarke in the summer of 1992, as the sister publication of his science fiction film magazine Cinefantastique. Published by Clarke, it was originally edited by pin-up...

, Bernard revealed, "I was the first under-18 Jewish virgin who was in the centerfold placed in front of a Christmas tree

Christmas tree

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" and that she'd never been nude in front of anyone other than her mother prior to posing for Cassili, who had been one of her father's apprentices. Her father was photographer Bruno Bernard and her son is actor Joshua John Miller

Joshua John Miller

Joshua John Miller is an American actor, writer, screenwriter, novelist, and filmmaker.As a child actor, Miller was best known for his role as Homer, the pre-teen vampire in the film Near Dark, Richtie Miller, the annoying brother in Teen Witch, and his gripping role as Tim in River's Edge...

. As of November 2008, Bernard was working on three books about her father.

Films

• The Mao Game (1999)
• Teenager (1974)
• The Killing Kind (1973) .... Tina
• Necromancy
  Necromancy (film)
  Necromancy is a 1972 horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Orson Welles and Pamela Franklin.-Plot:...
  
  (1972) .... Nancy
• Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns (1971) .... Julie
• The Phynx
  The Phynx
  The Phynx is a 1970 comedy film directed by Lee H. Katzin about a rock and roll band named The Phynx and their mission in foreign affairs. The group is sent to the country of Albania to locate hostages.-Cast:*The Phynx... Themselves...
  
  (1970) .... London Belly
• That Tender Touch (1969) .... Terry Manning
• The Witchmaker (1969) .... Felicity Johnson
• Stranger In Hollywood (1968) .... Woman
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 exploitation film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran. It stars Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams....
  
  (1965) (as Susan Bernard)

Television

• The Smith Family
  The Smith Family (TV series)
  The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series produced by Don Fedderson Productions. The series aired on ABC from October 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes.-Cast:...
  
  - "No Place to Hide" (1971)
• The Beverly Hillbillies
  The Beverly Hillbillies
  The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr....
  
  
  • "The Girls from Grun" (1971) .... Girl
  • "The Grunion Invasion" (1971) .... Girl
• Room 222
  Room 222
  Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC from September 17, 1969, to January 11, 1974, for 112 episodes...
  
  - "Funny Boy" (1969) .... Joellen
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  (1963) .... Beverly Cleveland Fairchild (1968–1969)

External links

• Susan's Salon Poolside