Margaret June Blair (October 20, 1932 – December 4, 2022) was an American model and actress. She was best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1957 issue and for being part of the TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the wife of her real-life husband David Nelson.
Acting career Blair made her first television appearance in 1954. Through the rest of the decade, she took supporting roles in feature films and guest-starred in series television, including two episodes, "Performance Under Fire" and "The Dead Ringer" of the 1960–61 syndicated western series Two Faces West.
Personal life and death Blair was engaged to the singer Nino Tempo in 1957. The next year she broke off her engagement with Tempo and started dating Lindsay Crosby. On May 21, 1961, Blair married David Nelson and joined the cast of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Ricky Nelson was the best man. She had two sons with David, born 1962 and 1966; they divorced in 1975. David Nelson died on January 11, 2011.
Blair died in Sherman Oaks, California, on December 4, 2022, at the age of 90.
Filmography Our Miss Brooks (1956) (uncredited) .... Miss Lonelyhearts Conflict - "The Money" (1957) .... Blonde This Could Be the Night (1957) (uncredited) .... Chorus Girl Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) (uncredited) .... Chorine Bachelor Father - "Bentley Versus the Girl Scouts" (1957) Hell Bound (1957) .... Paula The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) Lone Texan (1959) .... Florrie Stuart Island of Lost Women (1959) .... Mercuria Warlock (1959) (uncredited) .... Dance hall girl The Rabbit Trap (1959) .... Judy Colt The Best of Everything (1959) .... Brenda Bat Masterson "Dead Men Don't Pay Debts" (1959) "Death by Decree" (1960) .... Constance Whitney Hawaiian Eye - "Three Tickets to Lani" (1959) .... Anita Callahan Lock-Up "Music to Murder By" (1959) "Court Martial" (1961) The Texan - "Town Divided" (1960) .... Ellen Warren Tombstone Territory (1960) "Revenge" ..... Lady Bell Sea Hunt "Water Nymphs" (Season 3, Episode 2 1960) "Cross Current" (1960) M Squad - "The Bad Apple" (1960) .... Patty Conway The Chevy Mystery Show - "The Inspector Vanishes" (1960) .... Colette Dufour A Fever in the Blood (1961) .... Paula Thornwall The Aquanauts - "The Defective Tank Adventure" (1961) .... June Noreen The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1961–1966) .... June
See also List of people in Playboy 1953–1959
References
External links
Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen