Sally Jo Todd is an American

United States

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 actress and model

Model (person)

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. She 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 the February 1957 issue. Her centerfold

Centerfold

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 was photographed by David Sutton and Ed DeLong.

Film and television actress

Todd's entertainment career began in 1952 when her mother encouraged her to enter a local Tucson beauty contest. She also studied drama in her hometown. Todd wanted to vacation in
Canada

Canada

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 but had only enough money to take her as far as Hollywood in 1954. She took a job modeling teenage clothes and was spotted by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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. That led to a contract with the studio and a movie career that consisted mostly of B-movie

B-movie

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 roles in The Unearthly and Frankenstein's Daughter. Other motion pictures in which she performed are The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Serpent (1957), Al Capone (1959), and G.I. Blues

G.I. Blues

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(1960).

Her television appearances are in episodes of Flight, Dragnet

Dragnet (series)

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(1958–1959), M Squad

M Squad

M Squad is an American police drama television series that ran from 1957 to 1960 on NBC. Its format would later inspire the creation of spoof TV show Police Squad! Its sponsor was the Pall Mall cigarette brand; Lee Marvin, the program's star, appeared in its commercials during the...

(1959), Johnny Ringo

Johnny Ringo

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(1960), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

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(1960), 77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

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(1960), and The Tab Hunter Show (1960)

Model

She was among the models who appeared at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Home Show in June 1954. She also posed for several album covers and men's magazines, including Playboy, in which she first appeared in a non-nude pictorial in June 1956.

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