About Margaret Scott (Marilyn Waltz):

The Playmate for February 1954 was an actress, singer and model whose real name was Marilyn Waltz. Born in 1931, she used the pseudonym Margaret Scott for her first nude shoot but appeared again in the magazine in April under her real name. Hefner assumed it was a different woman and discovered the truth when he was looking over photos for a compendium Playboy book in 1990. Waltz was also in Playboy’s April 1955 edition. She later ditched acting and went into real estate. She died in 2006. Margaret Scott known as Marilyn Waltz, she was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in the February 1954, April 1954 and April 1955 issues.

She was the first of two women to become a three-time Playmate. However for the first of her Playboy appearances, Waltz was billed as Margaret Scott. For many years thereafter, many assumed that Marilyn and Margaret actually were two different people. It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that the two were revealed to be the same person.

Another of Hefner’s fortunate discoveries from the well-filled files of the John Baumgarth Calendar Company in Melrose Park, Illinois was pretty-in-pink Miss February, Margaret Scott. Miss Scott’s shapely figure and ultrafeminine dressing-room set apparently made her an instant hit with the readers who purchased the third issue of Hef’s infant magazine: she became an extremely popular Playmate, drawing stacks of letters from the legions of her enthusiastic supporters. There’s even a chance that Margaret posed again under another name. See Miss April 1954.