Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe in a nude calendar shoot. On June 4, 1963, he was arrested for promoting obscene literature after he published an issue of. Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield in bed with a man present.
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Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity. The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe in a nude calendar shoot; it sold over 50,000 copies. On June 4, 1963, he was arrested for promoting obscene literature after he published an issue of. Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield in bed with a man present. In the 1960s, he created private key clubs that were racially diverse. In 1970, he stated that feminists are opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes. In 1999, he voiced himself in an interview with Clara Bow on Discovering Clara Bow, a documentary about the life of Clara Bow and her daughter, Clara Bow. The interview was recreated in Roots: The Next Generations in 1979, with James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando as James and James Brando; Brando won a Primetime Emmy Award for his portrayal of Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and Martin Luther King Jr in 1966. In 1979, he won his second Emmy for the portrayal of James and Earl Jones as Marlon and James. In 2009, he appeared in an episode of The Simpsons, where he hosted Playboy’s Penthouse and Playboy After Dark; he also voiced himself on The Simpsons episode The Simpsons Gets Krusty Gets Kancey, a 1993 episode of the show about the lives of some of the characters from The Simpsons.
HefNER was a political activist in the Democratic Party and for the causes of First Amendment rights, animal rescue, and the restoration of the Hollywood Sign. He also lived in luxury mansions where Playboy playmates shared his wild partying life, fueling keen media interest. His mother wanted him to become a missionary; he described his family as conservative, Midwestern, Methodist. His father was of Swedish ancestry, and his father was German and English. Through his father’s line, Hefners was a descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford. In 1953, he took out a mortgage loan of USD 600 and raised USD 8,000 from 45 investors to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. In 1961, he hired Dick Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club; Gregory attributed the launch of his career to that night. In 1966, he sent Alex Haley to interview George Lincoln Rockwell, much to Rockwell’s surprise because Haley was black. Rockwell had founded the American Nazi Party, and was described as the \”American Hitler\” by the BBC. In 1963, HeFner financed the documentary Clara Bow: Girl, Boy, Girl, It’s All About The Playmates, which featured interviews with all three of the newly established Playboy Boys; all three interviewees were assassinated by 1968. In 1994, he wrote an article for The New York Review of Books in which he said that he was a supporter of gay rights.
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