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Alice Denham

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Alice Denham Famous memorial

Birth
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA
Death
27 Jan 2016 (aged 88)
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend. Specifically: Ashes giiven to her husband, John Mueller. Add to Map
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Model, Author. A stunning brunette who once posed for "Playboy", she shall probably be better remembered for a no-holds-barred memoir of life among the New York literati. The child of a family wiped-out in the Crash of 1929, she followed her parents to Coral Gables, Florida and in 1940 thence to Chevy Chase, Maryland when her father landed a government job during the World War II boom. Alice graduated from the University of North Carolina, earned a master's degree in English from the University of Rochester, and in the early 1950s moved to New York City where she gradually built respect as an author, while quickly garnering a following as a model and a 'reputation' as 'the-good-time-had-by-all'. Often she would write stories for pulp magazines of the day while also posing for the covers and for the article's illustrations; for example, an issue of "True Adventures" featured her on the cover while carrying her short story "Girl Gun Runners of Saigon", complete with her image as four different Oriental girls. Alice was Miss July 1956 for "Playboy", while the issue also carried her story "The Deal", though it was to be her last contribution to the magazine as Hugh Hefner soon decided on a 'no female bylines' policy and Alice would write under no name but her own. In order to pay her bills, she also did advertising, appearing as Miss Minute Maid of 1957 and 1958; she also appeared in a few movies, all of them schlock, making her silver screen bow in 1957's "The Twilight Girls", appearing as a nudist in the aptly-named 1963 "All of Me", and being seen in such forgettable flicks as "Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures", "Olga's Girls", and "Olga's House of Shame" (all 1964). Alice continued to write, publishing 1967's "My Darling from the Lions" and the 1973 "Amo"; in 2006 she penned "Sleeping With Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the 1950s and 1960s", then in 2013 produced a final novel entitled "Secrets of San Miguel". She lived out her days in Manhattan and died of cancer.
Model, Author. A stunning brunette who once posed for "Playboy", she shall probably be better remembered for a no-holds-barred memoir of life among the New York literati. The child of a family wiped-out in the Crash of 1929, she followed her parents to Coral Gables, Florida and in 1940 thence to Chevy Chase, Maryland when her father landed a government job during the World War II boom. Alice graduated from the University of North Carolina, earned a master's degree in English from the University of Rochester, and in the early 1950s moved to New York City where she gradually built respect as an author, while quickly garnering a following as a model and a 'reputation' as 'the-good-time-had-by-all'. Often she would write stories for pulp magazines of the day while also posing for the covers and for the article's illustrations; for example, an issue of "True Adventures" featured her on the cover while carrying her short story "Girl Gun Runners of Saigon", complete with her image as four different Oriental girls. Alice was Miss July 1956 for "Playboy", while the issue also carried her story "The Deal", though it was to be her last contribution to the magazine as Hugh Hefner soon decided on a 'no female bylines' policy and Alice would write under no name but her own. In order to pay her bills, she also did advertising, appearing as Miss Minute Maid of 1957 and 1958; she also appeared in a few movies, all of them schlock, making her silver screen bow in 1957's "The Twilight Girls", appearing as a nudist in the aptly-named 1963 "All of Me", and being seen in such forgettable flicks as "Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures", "Olga's Girls", and "Olga's House of Shame" (all 1964). Alice continued to write, publishing 1967's "My Darling from the Lions" and the 1973 "Amo"; in 2006 she penned "Sleeping With Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the 1950s and 1960s", then in 2013 produced a final novel entitled "Secrets of San Miguel". She lived out her days in Manhattan and died of cancer.

Bio by: Bob Hufford


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  • Originally Created by: Bob Hufford
  • Added: Feb 6, 2016
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157861219/alice-denham: accessed ), memorial page for Alice Denham (21 Feb 1927–27 Jan 2016), Find a Grave Memorial ID 157861219; Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend; Maintained by Find a Grave.