Elizabeth Ann Roberts (born August 4, 1941) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1958 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arthur James and Mike Shea.
Elizabeth's pictorial was a significant one in the history of Playboy because she was only 16 at the time her photos were taken. (Her pictorial was titled "Schoolmate Playmate.") She literally had a note from her mother giving her permission to pose, but both Hugh Hefner and Roberts' mother were arrested and charged by Chicago authorities with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges were eventually dropped on the grounds of lack of evidence that Hefner had known her true age.
Roberts eventually became a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club.
Her centerfold can be seen in animated form in Ralph Bakshi's film American Pop.
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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Man, she looked as though she’d been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet, in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty. Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you’re with your wife. But a natural beauty. A beauty that’s almost homely because it’s so real.”
—Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts (Tom Neal)