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{{Short description|Polish model and actress (1942–2013)}}
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc]] -->
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| name = Christa Speck
| issue = September 1961
| birth_name =
| birth_place = [[Gdańsk|Danzig]], [[PolandGerman Reich]]<ref name=pigs />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1942|8|1}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|03|22|1942|8|1}}
| death_place = [[Los Angeles]]|Los Angeles, [[California]], [[United States]]U.S.
| height = 5 ft 5 in
| bust = 38"<ref name=pigs />
| preceded = [[Karen Thompson (model)|Karen Thompson]]▼
| waist = 22"
| succeeded = [[Jean Cannon]]▼
| hips = 36"
| pmoy-year = 1962▼
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}<ref name=pigs />
| pmoy-preceded = [[Linda Gamble (model)|Linda Gamble]]▼
| weight = {{convert|122|lb|kg st|abbr=on}}
▲| preceded = [[Karen Thompson]]
▲| succeeded = [[Jean Cannon]]
▲| pmoy-year = 1962
▲| pmoy-preceded = [[Linda Gamble]]
| pmoy-succeeded = [[June Cochran]]
| website =
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'''Christa Speck''' (born August 1, 1942, in– Danzig,March Germany (now [[Gdańsk]]22, [[Poland]]2013)<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=kjlOpBLmm_4C&pg=PA307&dq=%22Christa+Speck%22&hl=en&ei=NS6xTYmWHsiutwfessCKDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22Christa%20Speck%22&f=false Looking forwas a hero],German p.307model (2004)</ref><refand name=pigs>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigsactress.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=speck%2C+christa&limit=0|title=Playmate data|accessdate=February 6, 2010}}</ref> - died March 22, 2013) <ref name="mercurynews1german61">{{cite webmagazine |authordate=TheJanuary Associated3, Press2004 |url=http://www.mercurynewstime.com/breaking-newstime/ci_22904818arts/playboysarticle/0,8599,570221-christa-speck-70-dies-los-angeles |title=Playboy's Christa Speck3, 70, dies in Los Angeles |publisher=Mercurynews00.comhtml |datearchive-url= |accessdate=2013-03-30}}<https:/ref> was a German [[model (person)|model]] and [[actress]]/web.<ref name="german61">(3 January 2004)archive. [org/web/20040109231246/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,570221-3,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 9, 2004 |title=That Old Feeling: Your Grandfather's Playboy], ''|first=Richard |last=Corliss |author-link=Richard Corliss |magazine=[[Time'' (magazine)|Time]] |issn=0040-781X}}</ref> She was chosen as ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine's [[Playboy Playmate|Playmate of the Month]] for the September 1961 issue, and as the [[List of Playmates of the Year|1962 Playmate of the Year]].<ref>{{cite namebook |url=pigs{{Google />books|kjlOpBLmm_4C|page=307|plainurl=yes}} Her|title=Looking originalfor pictoriala wasHero photographed|page=307 by|year=2005 |first=Peter |last=Maslowski |publisher=[[SamUniversity Wuof Nebraska Press]].<ref name|isbn=pigs 978-0803232440}}</ref> Her Sheoriginal laterpictorial marriedwas children'sphotographed programming producerby [[MartySam KrofftWu]].<ref name="krofft1"pigs>(13{{cite June 1970). [web|url=http://news.googlewekinglypigs.com/newspapers?id=7zY_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=oFEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5321,3404740&dq=christa+speck&hl=en And you thought puppets are for kids], ''Windsor Star''<cgi-bin/ref><ref>[http:nand/search/news.google.com/newspaperspmstat?idbrowse=t0FaAAAAIBAJ%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&sjidkey=W0wNAAAAIBAJspeck%2C+christa&pglimit=648,1748829&dq0|title=christaPlaymate data |access-speck&hldate=enSeptember Ava17, Now Rich Realtor, May Bow Out of Films]2017}}</ref>
 
==Career and media appearances==
Her centerfold is seen in the 1978 film ''[[Animal House]]'' which takes place in 1962.
Speck was working as a bank secretary at [[Bank of America]] when she was discovered by Playboy.<ref name=HWReport>{{cite magazine|last=Barnes|first=Mike|title=Celebrated Playboy Playmate Christa Speck Dies at 70 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/playmate-christa-speck-dies-marty-krofft-431888|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=March 29, 2013 |issn=0018-3660}}</ref> She was chosen as ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine's [[Playboy Playmate|Playmate of the Month]] for the September 1961 issue, and as the [[List of Playmates of the Year|1962 Playmate of the Year]], the first foreign-born model to be so named.<ref name=pigs /><ref name=HWReport/> She worked as a [[Bunny]] in the company's Chicago nightclub, lived in the [[Playboy Mansion]] and was featured in all of the magazine's 60s pictorials about life at the Mansion: 1961's ''Playmate Holiday House Party'', 1963's ''Playmate Pillow Fight and Bunnies'' and 1966's ''The Playboy Mansion''. Speck was selected by Playboy editors and readers as one of their "ten favorite Playmates from the magazine’s first decade."<ref name=HWReport/>
 
Her centerfold is seen in the 1978 film ''[[Animal House]]'', which takes place in 1962. Speck is mentioned in the 2007 book ''Confessions of a Crabgrass Cowboy: From Lincoln Logs to Lava Lamps: Coming of Age in an Early American Suburb'' by William Schwarz.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=William|title=Confessions of a crabgrass cowboy : from Lincoln logs to lava lamps : coming of age in an early American suburb|year=2007|publisher=iUniverse|location=New York|isbn=9780595451692|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D8GTvf-iYpcC&q=Christa+Speck&pg=PT16}}</ref> She is also mentioned briefly in the 2011 book ''The Bunny Years'' by fellow, former Bunny [[Kathryn Leigh Scott]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Kathryn Leigh|author-link=Kathryn Leigh Scott |title=The Bunny years|publisher=Gallery Books|location=New York |page=57 |isbn=9781451663273|url={{Google books|vOV9knGpcIMC|page=57|plainurl=yes}} |year=2011}}</ref>
Speck died at her home in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], on March 22, 2013, from natural causes at age ▼
 
70.<ref name="mercurynews1"/>
==Personal life==
Speck was born in Danzig, Germany (now [[Gdańsk]], Poland).
 
She was later married to children's programming producer [[Marty Krofft]].<ref name="krofft1">{{cite news |date=June 13, 1970 |first=Ray |last=Bennett |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7zY_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=oFEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5321,3404740&dq=christa+speck&hl=en |title=And you thought puppets are for kids |newspaper=[[Windsor Star]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t0FaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wNAAAAIBAJ&pg=648,1748829&dq=christa-speck&hl=en |title=Ava, Now Rich Realtor, May Bow Out of Films |first=Earl |last=Wilson |newspaper=[[St. Joseph Gazette]] |date=April 29, 1963}}</ref> Speck and Krofft had three daughters.
 
==Death==
▲Speck died of natural causes at her home in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], onat Marchthe 22,age 2013,of from natural causes at age70.<ref name=HWReport/>
 
==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{playmate|christa-speck|Christa Speck}}
 
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| NAME =Speck, Christa
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Polish playmate
| DATE OF BIRTH =August 1, 1942
| PLACE OF BIRTH =[[Gdańsk|Danzig]], [[Poland]]
| DATE OF DEATH =March 22, 2013
| PLACE OF DEATH =[[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Speck, Christa}}
[[Category:1960s Playboy Playmates (1960–1969)]]
[[Category:Playboy Playmates of the Year]]
[[Category:1942 births]]
[[Category:2013 deaths]]
[[Category:PeopleActresses from Gdańsk]]
[[Category:People from West Prussia]]
 
[[Category:Immigrants to the United States]]
 
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