Arline Hunter — Biography

Arline Hunter's rise to prominence was significantly fueled by her striking resemblance to Marilyn Monroe. This likeness was particularly evident in her Playboy pictorial, which bore a clear stylistic echo of Monroe's famous 1949 nude photographs taken by Tom Kelley, the same photographer responsible for Hunter's own images in the magazine. The visual parallel extended to a short film titled Apple Knockers and Coke, where a nude Hunter appeared. For a considerable duration, viewers of this film have been known to mistake Arline Hunter for Marilyn Monroe due to their shared appearance.