Vikki Dougan

Dougan began modelling at age eleven. She had a successful career in modeling before gaining her first movie role in Back from Eternity as an uncredited showgirl. She gained small parts in another nine movies.

In 1956, publicity-man Milton Weiss had the idea of promoting Vikki using a backless dress to garner publicity. The idea was to gain a contrast with the fashion for models and actresses with large bosoms, such as Jayne Mansfield.

In 1953, photographer Ralph Crane photographed Dougan for Life magazine, and their October 26th edition featured Dougan on the cover.

In June 1957, Dougan appeared in the (Vol. 4, Issue 6) edition of Playboy magazine. Dougan featured again in the December 1962 issue, under the section "Playboy's Other Girlfriends".

In 1961, her appearances in her backless dresses became celebrated in the song "Vikki Dougan" by The Limeliters in their album The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters.[1]

In January 1964, Cavalier magazine featured twelve nude photographs of Vikki Dougan in a pictorial entitled "The Back is Back". Dougan brought a lawsuit against the magazine, stating that the magazine did not have permission to publish them. The photographs had been posed for Playboy but Dougan had subsequently declined to let Playboy publish the photographs.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she dated a string of prominent Hollywood men, including Frank Sinatra and Glenn Ford.[2]

• List of people in Playboy 1953-1959

• Vikki Dougan at IMDb
• Vikki Dougan at Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
• Kitch-slapped "Looking back at Vikki 'the back' Dougan - A biography"