July
| Melodye Prentiss | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1944-12-14)December 14, 1944 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | March 3, 2009(2009-03-03) (aged 64) |
| Measurements | Bust: 34" Waist: 23" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Weight | 100 lb (45 kg; 7.1 st) |
Melodye Prentiss (December 14, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois – March 3, 2009 in California) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
Melodye was working in the Playboy editorial library when she was "discovered" by the magazine as Playmate material. She studied fine art and painting at both the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Chicago.
Prentiss died on March 3, 2009 after taking medications that made her unable to breathe following knee surgery and other illnesses.
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Famous quotes containing the word july:
“I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)
“This, it will be remembered, was the scene of Mrs. Rowlandson’s capture, and of other events in the Indian wars, but from this July afternoon, and under that mild exterior, those times seemed as remote as the irruption of the Goths. They were the dark age of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)