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Free Preview: Playmate of the Month December 1966 - Susan Bernard

GROWING UP GLAMOROUS charm and talent run in the family of Hollywood Playmate Susan Bernard Just before this Christmas Playmate pictorial went to press, our yuletide miss called us from the Coast with the news that she'd won the ingenue lead in Stranger in Hollywood, a new dramatic film with a tentative title that doesn't describe Miss December at all: Susan Bernard's been an Angeleno for all of her 18 years and is the daughter of top Hollywood glamor photographer Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood) and actress-director Ruth Brande. "The house has always been filled with theater and movie people," Susan says, "and after I decided that acting was really for me, my parents encouraged me at every step." Featured on dozens of puppy-and-little-girl calendars as a youngster, brunette and brown-eyed Sue has emerged from the traditional prepping of school dramatics, commercial modeling and professional dancing and acting lessons as a star a-borning. Acceptance in the talent program at the Film Industry Workshop at Columbia Studios followed Sue's first film role, a small part in a shot-on-location desert flick. Now she's alternating daytime work on Stranger with evening appearances in Friends and Romans, a play about a movie, at the Player's Ring, an unsquare L.A. theater in the round. She caught our attention when she accompanied Bruno on a business trip to our Chicago offices -- the Bernard who works behind the camera has often shot for Playboy and, in fact, took the black-a...