

Markham – playing Valerie in episode "The Glass Diamond" (episode 1.8), June 1959.


However, when taking the witness stand, instead of proving the prosecution's case, she gave a spirited defense of the principles of the lifestyle. In 1965, she traveled to Sioux City to give evidence at the request of a District Attorney's Office in a court trial involving the sending of allegedly obscene nudist publications into the State of Iowa. In the mid to late 1960s, as a part of the counter-culture movement in the United States, Webber became involved with nudism and appeared in numerous nudist publications advocating the lifestyle, such as Naked and Together: The Wonderful Webbers by June Lange (1967). She also appeared in the film The Trial of Billy Jack (1974). In the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared in the movie Mermaids of Tiburon (1962), and an episode of the television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea entitled "The Mermaid" (1967). Japanese release of Seiji Hiraoka & His Quartet's Bedtime Music (1965). Webber appeared on the cover art of several pop music vinyl record albums in the late 1950s-1960s, including George Shearing's Satin Brass (1959), Les Baxter's La Femme (1956) and Jewels of the Sea (1961), Nelson Riddle's Sea of Dreams (1958), Marty Paich's Jazz for Relaxation (1956), Xavier Cugat's Chilie con Cugie (1959), Otto Cesana's Sheer Ecstasy (1960) and the R.C.A. The photo shoot for the 1956 publication was shot by Russ Meyer. Under the name Marguerite Empey, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in both May 1955 and February 1956. As the decade progressed, she modeled for many professional photographers, including Peter Gowland, Bunny Yeager and Keith Bernard, appearing in a myriad of men's magazines, such as Esquire, and commercial advertising imagery. In the early 1950s, while developing her professional modeling career, she found employment as a chorus girl at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco. As a child, she received ballet lessons from Russian ballerina Maria Bekefi. She received her formal education at Hollywood High School. Born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., the daughter of Marguerite ( née Andrus), a Hollywood actress and former Miss Long Beach beauty contest winner, and Arthur Guy Empey.
