Marilyn Grabowski spent over 40 years as Playboy’s West Coast Photography Editor. Known as “Mo,” she was the woman who decided what was “sexy” for generations of Americans, discovering Pamela Anderson, Dorothy Stratten, and Anna Nicole Smith along the way. She formed friendships with women who came through her studio, and may have been the recipient of allegations about what went on at the Playboy Mansion. This is the complicated legacy of “Mo.”
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Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:40 Youth
02:24 Photo Editor, Talent Scout
05:02 Artistic lens
06:21 Nose surgery
08:13 Pamela Anderson
10:08 Dorothy Stratten
11:32 Anna Nicole Smith
14:04 Girls Next Door, Holly Madison
15:24 Allegations – Miki Garcia, Susie Krabacher
17:42 Friend or foe?
19:14 Personal life
21:07 Reflections
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Villains come in all forms. Marilyn is onesuch form.
I think Hef is such a creep, he referred to himself as daddy.
None of these grown adult women were FORCED to do anything against their will.
You sure about that?
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I always remember being both curious and fascinated that a person who looked like her held so much gatekeeping power when it came to standards of beauty. Another fabulous video❤
thank you! I similarly am fascinated, and I think part of it is the mystery of who she truly is – a gatekeeper that we as the public do not really know
could you do hef’s first wife?
what about covering marilyn monroe? using your detective skills lol
Can’t wait for Pam Anderson video! ❤ absolutely love her as well… also just realized you remind me of the girl from Even Stevens 😂
Could you cover holly Madison? Specifically what she talks about in her book
I did a podcast episode with her!! The video is on this channel titled Life After Playboy
@lauraediez Maybe you could cover the “mean girls” talked about in her podcast
Can you do a video on what it would be like to work for Hugh Hefner as one of his secretaries or those ladies who worked at the mansion and were connected to the girls. Like Mary O’Connor. I remember people like that were in the A&E series. Idk if you could find more primary sources on that.
What if you could find a job posting from a newspaper or something…
There is a Mary O’Connor video on this playlist! One challenge with the newspaper postings is that so much has not been digitized… so she was both a private citizen and the inner workings of the job were kept so secretive until Secrets of Playboy! But I’d love to learn more about staff
@lauraediez ohh okay gotcha! Thank you for still considering. Hulu needs to do a whole documentary purely on the staff there and interview people! It’s so interesting to me because there’s no job in the world like it and they were kind of silent faces in changing culture. It couldn’t have been done without them.
You should do a video on the most significant female house staff (like chefs and butlers) and what it was like to work there in that setting as a woman
The secrets of playboy is worth a watch, lots of female employees there blowing the whistle on the disgusting treatment of the playmates, a couple of the women speaking were also SA’d. It’s a hard watch but it is eye opening.
Why does she have no nose ?
Have you covered the original seven girlfriends? Would love to see what Buffy Tyler is up to. She was always my favorite of the original 7.
I had no idea 🤷♀️ Moe’s nose had undergone reconstructive surgery so much!