Donna Michelle, Playmate Of The Year, 1964

Donna Michelle, Playmate of the Year, 1964Despite the bumper crop of beauties adorning our gatefolds in 1963, the selection of Playmate of the Year proved stunningly simple once Donna Michelle appeared as Miss December. Originally spotted in a high school play by a coperformer, the daughter of West Coast photographer Edmund Leja, Donna was subsequently snapped by him, and appeared on our pages shortly after her 18th birthday. She received a call from Otto Preminger the same week the issue went o...