# Oldest Playboy Playmate ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505 "2002-12-04T19:11:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/21 "2002-12-04T23:00:35Z")
I don’t need much character in a centerfold. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/22 "2002-12-04T23:19:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*YES! I lamented endlessly to my friends on that sad day. Most of my friends are older than me, and largely unsympathetic. \*\* I haven’t picked up a Playboy in years, and in any case I’m not ready to confront a Playmate that was born in the Reagan administration. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/23 "2002-12-04T23:35:30Z")
I think the previous upper-age record Playmate was Kathy Shower, in the mid-80s, who was 33 And yes, they make a distinction between the celebrity-feature nude pictorials, and the Playmates, who get the Centerfold. They stopped using celebrity (or pseudo-celebrity) models as _Playmates_ in the 1950s, claiming to prefer “girl next door” types. Of course, once Hef moved to Cali, the girls next door _became_ surgically-enhanced aspiring-actress model/dancer types. And the moment the girl was younger than yourself is nothing. Think on when you pick up the mag and find out the girl was born _after you already could buy the magazine legally_ (Jul. 1979, Thank U very much…). That gives you pause. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/24 "2002-12-04T23:52:40Z")
Tiffany Sloan was the first Playmate younger than me, **Dinsdale**. 🙂 I remember that moment very distinctly. It was a little milestone of manhood. The Playmates were no longer unattainable older women. They were now merely unattainable. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/25 "2002-12-05T14:46:54Z")
Glad to know I’m not alone - there’s all you other pervs out there. I guess it probably has something to do with the fact that the Playmate/age crossover occurs around age 18-20 - a time when young men will have ready access to the mag, and may well be just about as interested in such things as at other time in their lives. Hmm. I wonder if there is a possibility of a government grant in there somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/26 "2002-12-05T15:05:59Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t know about that…unless playboy centerfolds that include celebrities are excluded. Several years ago (1980?) Howard Hughes widow, Terri ? did a layout. IIRC she was an playmate and later at age 54 (I think) did another centerfold, she was so damned HOT in her 50’s, I still remember her. > > I was looking for a link/cite but haven’t found it yet. > If I do can I post it? It was Terri Moore, known and loved by animation fans as the star of **Mighty Joe Young** , the original version from back in 1949 (!!!). She appeared in Playboy nude in 1987, and, as you say, still looked great. Unless she appeared in MJY when she was 16 – and I don’t – she was significantly older than 54. Damned Playboy referred to MJY as an “obscure film”, too. Bastards. And no, it wasn’t tongue-in-cheek. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505/27 "2002-12-05T15:38:03Z")
According to the IMDb, [Mighty Joe Young](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0041650)’s star was Terr **y** Moore who was born on [7 January, 1929](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Moore,%20Terry%20(I)) and [mentions her Playboy pictorial](http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Moore,%20Terry%20(I)) as a 1984 event. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-playboy-playmate-ever/140505.md?page=1)