Playboy Clubs in Popular Culture
- The 1985 TV movie A Bunny's Tale, starring Kirstie Alley, was based on writer and future feminist leader Gloria Steinem's 1963 article for Huntington Hartford's Show magazine, a critical account of her time working as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.
- The 2000 TV movie, A Tale of Two Bunnies (aka Price of Beauty) starring Marina Black and Julie Condra, tells the story of two girls who try out as Playboy Bunnies in 1961.
- In the James Bond film Diamonds are forever (1971), Bond replaces his wallet with that of the recently killed diamond smuggler Peter Franks to confuse his contact, Tiffany Case. When she opens the wallet she finds his Playboy Club Member Card, which she uses to identify the man on the floor.
- The film, Hefner; an Unauthorized Biography, includes leotard-wearing women being trained as hostesses in a Playboy Club.
- In season four, episode ten of Mad Men, the characters visit the New York Playboy Club.
- In season one, episode two of Swingtown, the characters visit the Playboy Club.
- September 2011 saw the premiere of NBC's The Playboy Club, a television series focusing on the employees and patrons of the first Playboy Club, located in Chicago. A storm of protests against the sexuality in the TV show and low ratings led to the show's cancellation on October 4, 2011. Reports state that Canadian TV will continue to run the show.
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That swarm around the sleeper’s head
But are fended off with clubs and knives ...”
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