The Bunny Years
BY Kathryn Leigh Scott

• $25.00 Hardcover ISBN: 0-938817-43-4
• 6x9 320 pages 300 photographs color/B&W
• Available: April 1998

The Bunny Years
The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs
The Women Who Worked as Bunnies and Where They Are Now

The Bunny Years is a memoir interwoven with personal profiles and photographs of the remarkable range of women who worked as Bunnies during the 25 year history of the Playboy Clubs -- a bright, sexy, provocative and insightful portrait of free-spirited women who thrived in an era of explosive change.

The Bunny Years, is based on the author's interviews with more than 250 former Bunnies and her personal recollections working as a Bunny in the New York Club while attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Kathryn Leigh Scott "retired her satin ears" in 1966 to become one of the original cast members of the ABC Gothic drama Dark Shadows.

The book sweeps readers along into the backstage adventures and intimate confessions of women who were pioneers in the sexual revolution. Even more intriguing, perhaps, than former Bunnies who found careers in show business are the other remarkable women profiled in the book, including the owner of a multi-million dollar New York advertising agency, a distinguished scientist, an architect, an opera singer, an attorney, a book publisher, a restauranteur, a stock broker, an executive producer of network sitcoms, a race horse breeder, a real estate tycoon, an award-winning hat designer, a nurse, several schoolteachers -- and a midwife who was both a beauty queen and a nun before becoming a Bunny.

The author's thesis is that, in its own peculiar way, the Playboy Club in the mid-60's served as a magnet and crucible for women independently driven to achieve remarkable levels of success later in life. As the profiles demonstrate, the very impulses that led intelligent, ambitious women to defy convention and choose to work as Bunnies would later propel many of them into vastly rewarding, and often unconventional, personal careers.

Kathryn Leigh Scott has written three nonfiction titles (Lobby Cards: The Classic Films, Lobby Cards: The Classic Comedies, and My Scrapbook Memories of Dark Shadows. Kathryn has also sold the rights to Coya Come Home (published by Pomegranate Press 1990), the story of Congresswoman Coya Knutson, to Columbia Tristar Television for an NBC-TV Movie of the Week. Few book projects have given Kathryn the enormous personal satisfaction and enjoyment of The Bunny Years, not least because it has enabled her to renew friendships with so many exceptional women.