Marianne Gravatte
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Marianne Gravatte | |
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Playboy centerfold appearance | |
October 1982 | |
Preceded by | Connie Brighton |
Succeeded by | Marlene Janssen |
Playmate of the Year | |
1983 | |
Preceded by | Shannon Tweed |
Succeeded by | Barbara Edwards |
Born | December 13, 1959 Hollywood, California |
Measurements | Bust: 34 Waist: 21 Hips: 32 |
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Weight | 105 lb (48 kg/7.5 st) |
Marianne Gravatte (born December 13, 1959 in Hollywood, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1982 issue, then as the 1983 Playmate of the Year. Her original pictorial was photographed by Richard Fegley.
Marianne grew up in Northern California and graduated from Arcadia High School in 1978.
After her work with Playboy, Marianne tried her hand at acting, finding small parts on television and appearing in music videos. She also graced the cover of Ratt's 1985 album Invasion of Your Privacy, was in Ratt's video of "Lay It Down" and appeared in Ric Ocasek's "Something to Grab For" video in 1982. Later on she married, and she and her husband bought a sports bar in Huntington Beach, California. They have three sons.
She posed for Playboy again for the April 1994 "Playmate Revisited" feature.
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[edit] TV appearances
- "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" ... Brenda - in the episode "Dead Man's Run" (1984) .... Brenda
- "Matt Houston" - in the episode "The Bikini Murders" (1984)
[edit] Appearances in Playboy special editions
- Playboy's Women of Television 1984.
- Playboy's Sporting Women March 1986.
- Playboy's Wet & Wild Women July 1987 - pages 26-27.
- Playboy's Girls of Winter December 1988.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 6 March 1989.
- Playboy's Bathing Beauties April 1989.
- Playboy's Girls of Summer '89 August 1989.
- Playboy's Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads February 1990.
- Playboy's Girls of Summer '90 August 1990 - page 53.
- Playboy's Nudes October 1990.
- Playboy's Playmates in Paradise March 1994 - pages 58-61.
- Playboy's Wet & Wild Playmates September 1994 - page 70.
- Playboy's 21 Playmates Vol. 2 April 1997.
- Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 1 December 1998 - page 69.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 78 March 2001.
[edit] Other appearances
- A cameo appearance in the music video "Something to Grab For" by Ric Ocasek (1983)
- A cameo appearance in the music video "No Tellin' Lies" by "Zebra" (1984)
- A cameo appearance in the music video "Lay it Down" by the glam metal band "Ratt" (1985)
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