A Bunny's Tale is a 1985 television film based on American

United States

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 feminist

Feminism

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 icon and journalist Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s...

's experiences working as a Playboy Bunny

Playboy Bunny

A Playboy Bunny is a waitress at the Playboy Club. The Playboy Clubs were originally open from 1960 to 1988. The Club re-opened in one location in The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas in 2006...

 in 1963. It stars Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Louise Alley is an American actress known for her role in the TV show Cheers, in which she played Rebecca Howe from 1987–1993, winning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1991...

 as Steinem.

Plot Summary

Engaged by a magazine to write an investigative article on publisher Hugh Hefner's nightclub chain, Ms. Steinem (Kirstie Alley) poses as a young girl named "Marie" and enters the Bunny training program at the New York Playboy club. Outfitted with phony ears, fuzzy tail and revealing costume, Gloria learns the proper method of serving drinks (the "bunny dip") and how to fend off customers who ignore Hefner's "look but don't touch" policy. She also concludes that being a sex object, even a chaste one, is depressingly demeaning -- an "awakening".

Cast

• Kirstie Alley
  Kirstie Alley
  Kirstie Louise Alley is an American actress known for her role in the TV show Cheers, in which she played Rebecca Howe from 1987–1993, winning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1991...
  
   as Gloria Steinem
• Cotter Smith
  Cotter Smith
  Cotter Smith is an American stage, film, and television actor.-Biography:He was born Joseph Cotter Smith in Washington, D.C., the son of Madeline and John Lewis Smith, Jr., who was a federal judge...
  
   as Ned Holcomb
• Deborah Van Valkenburgh
  Deborah Van Valkenburgh
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   as Pearl
• Joanna Kerns
  Joanna Kerns
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   as Andrea
• Lisa Pelikan
  Lisa Pelikan
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   as Lee
• Delta Burke
  Delta Burke
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   as Margie
• Mary Woronov
  Mary Woronov
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   as Miss Renfro
• Diana Scarwid
  Diana Scarwid
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   as Toby
• Romy Windsor as Bobbi
• Randi Brooks
  Randi Brooks
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   as Marybeth
• Dee Dee Rescher
  Dee Dee Rescher
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   as Hazel
• Chick Vennera as Frankie
• Stanley Kamel
  Stanley Kamel
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   as Jerry
• James T. Callahan
  James T. Callahan
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   as Phil
• Katie Budge as Gwen
• Madison Mason as Luther Baines
• Lela Rochon
  Lela Rochon
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   as Charlotte
• Chanelle Lee as Sherry
• Charles Winters as Greg
• Randy Hamilton as David
• Richard Lefevre as Willie
• Keith Mills as Doctor
• Teddy Wilson
  Theodore Wilson
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  as Older Club Employee (as Theodore Wilson)