Elsa Sørensen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 model

Model (person)

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 who did most of her work under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Dane Arden. Under her real name, she was Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1956 issue. Her centerfold

Centerfold

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 was photographed by Peter Gowland

Peter Gowland

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Sørensen was Miss Denmark 1955 prior to her Playboy appearance. She went on to marry singer Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...

, though they divorced several years later.

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