Jean Bell (born
Annie Lee Morgan on November 23, 1944, in
St. Louis, Missouri) was one of the first of
Playboy magazine's African American
Playmates of the Month. When she appeared in the October 1969 issue of
Playboy, Bell was only the second African American woman to appear as the
centerfold (the first was
Jennifer Jackson, in March 1965). Her centerfold was photographed by
Don Klumpp. A few months later, Bell became the first black person to appear on the magazine's cover. Bell was featured with four other playmates in the January 1970 cover of the magazine. After Bell's appearance in
Playboy, she enjoyed a brief acting career, working on such films as
Mean Streets and
The Klansman, sometimes credited as
Jeanne Bell. She posed nude again for
Playboy in the December 1979 pictorial "Playmates Forever!" ==November==