American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story Members Only: The Playboy Club (2017– ) watch online HD

To bring Playboy's bachelor lifestyle to the public, Hugh Hefner opens the Playboy Club in Chicago and creates the perfect nightlife hostess - the bunny.

By the end of 1959, Playboy's circulation had soared to over one million copies a month, while total revenue was an impressive $5.5 million.

In 1950, one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger donated $150,000 towards research to develop the first birth control pill. Ten years later, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill, Enovid, as contraception.

Bobbie Arnstein's parents hired a German nanny to help raise Bobbie and her twin brother Eddie. The twins grew up speaking with German accents.

During Bobbie's senior year of high school, her teachers confronted her with an issue of Playboy that featured a model that looked exactly like Bobbie. Her teachers did not believe Bobbie's denial, so her mother had to come and testify to her innocence.

Hef's circular bed doubled as his desk when working at home. If it wasn't littered with Playmates it was almost certainly covered in paper.

Hefner rarely used the pool himself, as he does not know how to swim.

Tony Curtis was a film actor whose career spanned six decades. His most famous performance was as the cross-dressing Joe in Some Like It Hot, where he acted beside Playboy's first cover model, Marilyn Monroe.

The mansion also boasted a sauna, steam room and even a tanning room.

Cynthia Maddox and Bobbie Arnstein shared an apartment together on Dearborn Street.

Cynthia Maddox appeared on the cover of Playboy five times in the 1960's, but was never a playmate.

In the article, The Lock on the Barroom Door, writer Jonathan Rhoades sets up the Gaslight Club's exclusivity by narrating a drunk's confused attempt to gain entry to the club. The best way to become a member to Gaslight, according to Rhoades, is to "be somebody."

After playing two years of football at Alabama, Arnie Morton opened his first restaurant, the Walton Walk, in the 1950's. It was located right in the heart of Chicago's nightclub district, between Rush Street and Michigan Avenue.

Arnie Morton's son, Peter, achieved fame in the family business as the man who gave the world the iconic Hard Rock Cafe.

The space for the Playboy Club was found through Arthur Wirtz, who was happy to do business with the magazine again after the success of the Playboy Jazz Festival at his arena, The Chicago Stadium.

At one end of the club's Living Room was the "Cartoon Corner," where framed cartoons from Playboy issues were hung on the walls.

Zelda Wynn Valdes, the African American fashion designer, designed the first Playboy Bunny costume. Valdes had previously owned her own boutique in Manhattan called Chez Zelda, with such clientele as Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Mae West.

June "The Bosom" Wilkinson also appeared on Playboy's Penthouse to show off the new Bunny outfit. In her appearance she balanced two champagne glasses on her ample chest. She would work at the Playboy Club for only one night.

A plastic key card later replaced the iconic Playboy Club members' key in 1966, as proof of membership.

The wardrobe mistress for the Playboy Club kept a supply of clean cottontails to replace those becoming used and dirty.

Around this time, Hef was working with actor and friend Tony Curtis to try and produce a movie about his life. After many disagreements between Hef and the writing staff, who wanted the film to be a comedy, the project never left the ground.

Joyce Nizzari, a former girlfriend of Hef's, attended JFK's inaugural ball with him as well as the Cannes Film Festival.

Keith Hefner's biggest acting gig to date had been the role of Johnny Jellybeans on a children's television show in Baltimore.

Boyfriends or husbands meeting Bunnies after work were requested to wait at least two blocks away from the club to prevent club members from thinking that the Bunnies were ever touched by male hands.

Cocktail Bunnies also had to memorize each drink's garnish, a total of 29, which they would have to add after its preparation.

Keith treated the Playboy Club like it was show business, and the Bunnies like actors. Drawing from his method acting experience, Keith would tell the girls to take a moment and think of something funny or happy in their lives before going out on the floor.

The Catholic Church had pressured Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley to pull Playboy's permit to use Soldier Field for their planned Jazz Festival. Hefner and Lownes had to move the show to Chicago Stadium.

The fourth floor of the Playboy Mansion was converted into a dormitory where many of the Bunnies stayed during their employment at the club.

Hef refers to Bonnie Jo Halpin as the "first bunny" because she was the very first door bunny on opening night of the Chicago club. She would go on to appear on the cover of the October 1962 issue of Playboy.

Dick Gregory landed the gig at the Chicago Playboy Club in December 1961, because the regular comic, did not want to work on Sundays.

One famous Playboy Bunny is Debbie Harry, better known as the lead singer of the new wave group Blondie. Harry said the most arduous requirement of being a bunny was to "keep smiling while infuriated wives stubbed out cigarettes on your thighs."