Free Preview: Playmate of the Month May 1971 - Janice Pennington
"I've been thinking seriously about an acting career ever since I was twelve," confesses 25-year-old Janice Pennington. "But I never admitted it because I was afraid people would consider me egotistical if I told them my ambitions." She believes that being raised in Southern California contributed to her precocious plans for stardom, which - except for one attempt to change them - have remained unaltered. Finishing high school, she left the Coast for New York - "to forget about becoming an actress. I told myself I simply couldn't make it in films." Trying for a career as a fashion mannequin, she eventually came under the auspices of Eileen Ford's prestigious modeling agency; but even after 18 successful months, her screen aspirations hadn't faded, so she headed home to get an agent and begin answering casting calls. After supporting herself during lean times with trips to nearby Las Vegas for jobs in casino song-and-dance troupes, she graduated to appearances as an extra on the <i>Playboy After Dark</i> show, to small speaking parts in episodes of several other television series and, finally, to a role as an operating-room nurse who assists - then resists - surgeon Elliott Gould in the movie <i>I Love My Wife</i>. And now - in what could be her big screen break - Janice is playing a columnist-interviewer in a satirical drama being filmed, without any prerelease publicity, by Orson Welles, about whom she speaks with a deferential admiration approaching reverence. "Everyone in...
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