Playboy Playmate Miss October 1967 Reagan Wilson

When the 1967 October issue of Playboy Magazine came out Reagan returned home to Missoula, Montana for a vacation. When she arrived she found out that she was the sensation of the town. According to Wilson the phone was ringing off the hook with offers. Many of the boys who went to high school with her, who had never given her a second look were now calling. Of course, she turned them down.

Wilson soon returned to Los Angeles and signed with an agency. She became a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild and was accepted at the Columbia Studios Actors Workshop. Shortly afterward she doubled for the actress Julie Newmar in an underwater swimming scene in the western classic “MacKenna’s Gold”. The movie starred Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif. Many guest television parts soon came her way and she appeared on the most popular shows of the day. Jack Benny even played his famous alluring violin for her during his Jack Benny Show. Comedy suited Wilson’s nature and she ended up doing several sketches with Sid Caesar on the Carol Burnett Show. As one of the up and coming young actresses in Hollywood she became one of the beautiful ladies that presented Johnny Carson with his “sealed envelopes” each week on “The Tonight Show”. Wilson worked on a multitude of other popular comedy shows such as “The Jonathan Winters Show” and “Laugh In”. Westerns were the other popular genre of the time and she also appeared with Peter Breck on “The Big Valley”.

Reagan enjoyed doing the comedy shows and kept working on her acting lessons. She did some screen tests for movies, but became disillusioned with Hollywood after awhile. She did land a starring role with Alex Rocco in the 1972 cult film “Blood Mania”. 

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