Pamela Jean Bryant, comic actress and April 1978 Playboy Playmate, 51 (in December 2010)

KingDaevid

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Sep 22, 2012, 2:08:13 PM9/22/12

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...Wikipedia states that Ms. Bryant died of a massive asthma attack on 4 December 2010, and another online source claims that Hugh Hefner announced her death on Twitter the following day. However, I can't find any news media obits online, and I'm positive it wasn't reported here at the time. Anyone around here know where any might have been? I know she was born in Indianapolis, and first appeared in Playboy as part of their September 1977 "Girls of the Big Ten" pictorial while attending the University of Indiana, but I couldn't even find any obits from an Indiana-based source...

kdm

David Carson

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Sep 22, 2012, 2:46:20 PM9/22/12

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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:08:13 -0700 (PDT), KingDaevid
<baronof...@gmail.com> wrote:

>...Wikipedia states that Ms. Bryant died of a massive asthma attack on 4 December 2010, and another online source claims that Hugh Hefner announced her death on Twitter the following day. However, I can't find any news media obits online, and I'm positive it wasn't reported here at the time. Anyone around here know where any might have been? I know she was born in Indianapolis, and first appeared in Playboy as part of their September 1977 "Girls of the Big Ten" pictorial while attending the University of Indiana, but I couldn't even find any obits from an Indiana-based source...

I'm pretty sure there weren't any published obits. There often aren't for
Playmates. A family member e-mails a few people, the news makes its way to
Playboy fan forums, Hefner tweets it, and that's it.

Note that she probably died on 3 December 2010, to be exact. The first
reports of her death came out on the morning of the 4th in the continental
US, but at that time, it was still the 3rd in Hawaii, where she was. Or at
least that's how someone explained it to me.

David Carson
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Sep 22, 2012, 3:33:39 PM9/22/12

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Read this interesting story about her

http://www.findmyfamily.org/articles/teresas-story.html

R H Draney

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Sep 22, 2012, 5:58:51 PM9/22/12

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David Carson filted:

>
>On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:08:13 -0700 (PDT), KingDaevid
><baronof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>...Wikipedia states that Ms. Bryant died of a massive asthma attack on 4
>>December 2010, and another online source claims that Hugh Hefner announced her
>>death on Twitter the following day. However, I can't find any news media obits
>>online, and I'm positive it wasn't reported here at the time. Anyone around here
>>know where any might have been? I know she was born in Indianapolis, and first
>>appeared in Playboy as part of their September 1977 "Girls of the Big Ten"
>>pictorial while attending the University of Indiana, but I couldn't even find
>>any obits from an Indiana-based source...
>
>I'm pretty sure there weren't any published obits. There often aren't for
>Playmates. A family member e-mails a few people, the news makes its way to
>Playboy fan forums, Hefner tweets it, and that's it.

But she also did movies, and I think was a regular on at least one sitcom back
in the day, something involving a bunch of roller-derby stars...IMDb doesn't
seem to have it; maybe it was just a pilot that didn't get picked up?...r

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Rick B.

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Sep 22, 2012, 6:32:58 PM9/22/12

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R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote in news:k3lc...@drn.newsguy.com:

You may be thinking of The Roller Girls, which lasted four episodes and
featured Marcy Hanson, another 1978 Playmate:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077074/

KingDaevid

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Sep 25, 2012, 7:27:57 PM9/25/12

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On Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:32:59 PM UTC-7, Rick B. quotes R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> 'n sez:

> > But she also did movies, and I think was a regular on at least one
> >sitcom back in the day, something involving a bunch of roller-derby
> >stars...IMDb doesn't seem to have it; maybe it was just a pilot that
> >didn't get picked up?...r
>
>You may be thinking of The Roller Girls, which lasted four episodes and
>featured Marcy Hanson, another 1978 Playmate:
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077074/

...indeed, that was Ms. Hanson in that "Roller Girls" part; she also appeared in "10" as the woman Dudley Moore makes eyes at while coffee dribbles down his chin at the diner. Ms. Hanson and Ms. Bryant did resemble each other closely in those days, but I don't think they did any movies or TV shows together. The movie and TV career, which IMDb says continued sporadically until 1995, was why I thought that at least Variety or The Hollywood Reporter would have had a Bryant obit somewhere...

kdm

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On Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:08:13 AM UTC-7, KingDaevid wrote:
> ...Wikipedia states that Ms. Bryant died of a massive asthma attack on 4 December 2010, and another online source claims that Hugh Hefner announced her death on Twitter the following day. However, I can't find any news media obits online, and I'm positive it wasn't reported here at the time. Anyone around here know where any might have been? I know she was born in Indianapolis, and first appeared in Playboy as part of their September 1977 "Girls of the Big Ten" pictorial while attending the University of Indiana, but I couldn't even find any obits from an Indiana-based source...
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> kdm

Real drag, it goes without saying, but I only now found out, as her name flashed through my mind for an unknown reason and I looked her up and she was being spoken about in the past tense. I had a boyhood crush on her when I saw her in Playboy, and subsequently found out we shared the same birthday; I think I did something as silly as write her a letter care of Playboy due to that fact. (?)