Laura Misch

Laura was Playmate of the Month for February 1975. Her pictorial was titled Delta Lady.

Laura was born Laura Misch Owens on Nov. 23, 1953, in Tulsa, OK. She’s the second of three daughters of an engineer and a school teacher. At age 19, she left Oklahoma for New Orleans to be a Playboy Club Bunny. During her stint as a Bunny, she did test shots with photographer Pompeo Posar, who was visiting New Orleans on a scouting trip, and was selected to be a Playmate.

Laura later quit the Playboy Club and did modeling for ads, commercials and conventions. She acted in a handful of movies in the mid- to late-1970s that were made on location in New Orleans, playing prostitutes in such films as “Mandingo,” “Hard Times” and “French Quarter.”

While living in New Orleans, Laura met and married a police officer named Eddie; they later divorced.

Laura later moved to Miami, where she eventually got a job as a reporter at The Miami Herald.  In 1980, she wrote an article about her experience as Playmate of the Month for Cosmopolitan magazine.  After six years, she moved to Denver and a position at The Rocky Mountain News. She married a fellow staffer, Joe Watt, in 1993. In 1997 She wrote her first novel, “Carry Me Back,” under her married name of Laura Watt. She wrote fiction full time for awhile before becoming a regular contributing writer for The Denver Post.

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Playboy appearances:

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Other publications:

Movies:

  • Mandingo (1975) in an uncredited role as a prostitute
  • Hard Times (1975) in an uncredited role as a prostitute
  • Crypt of Dark Secrets (1976) in an uncredited role
  • Mardi Gras Massacre (1978) as Shirley Anderson
  • French Quarter (1978) as Ice Box Jose/Girl on Bus

Television:

  • A Shadow in the Streets (TV movie) (1975) as a hooker