Sally Todd mini-bio (from Wikipedia and Brian's Drive-in website)
Sally Jo Todd was born June 7, 1934 in Tucson, Arizona and is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by David Sutton and Ed DeLong.
Todd's entertainment career began in 1952 when her mother encouraged her to enter a local Tucson beauty contest. She also studied drama in her hometown. Todd wanted to vacation in Canada but had only enough money to take her as far as Hollywood in 1954. She took a job modeling teenage clothes and was spotted by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox. That led to a contract with the studio and a movie career that consisted mostly of B-movie roles in The Unearthly and Frankenstein's Daughter. Other motion pictures in which she performed are The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), Viking Women and The Sea Serpent (1957), Al Capone (1959), and G.I. Blues (1960).
Her television appearances are in episodes of Flight, Dragnet (1958-1959), M Squad (1959), Johnny Ringo (1960), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1960), 77 Sunset Strip (1960), and The Tab Hunter Show (1960).
Sally Todd had a wide-reaching career as a model, and by 1956 she was dubbed "television's highest-paid model." She was among the models who appeared at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Home Show in June 1954.[2] She also posed for several album covers and men's magazines, including Playboy, in which she first appeared in a non-nude pictorial in June 1956.
Among the celebrities Todd was linked to during the 1950s were Troy Donahue, Jack Webb and Vince Edwards.
For Sally Todd, something better did come along; she married and retired from acting in the early 1960s. Today, Todd lives in Big Sur, tending to her antique shop and keeping in touch with a few old friends, such as Kim Novak, from her Hollywood days.

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