Welcome to the KEM Media Index.  The goal of this page is to be a comprehensive list of Karen's appearances in magazines, movies, videos, calendars and anything else graced by Karen's visage.  Input is not only welcome, but desperately needed.  Just email to: admin@karenelainemorton.com. I will do my best to confirm all submissions before posting them here.  (Hey, I'm looking for new pictures too.)  Check the example below to determine what info you need to provide with your submission.  Everybody gets credit (unless anonymity is requested).  Entries are listed in chronological order by  publication date. -tlj
 

Entry Format:  title; medium; publish/release date; source;
               description.

Index updated:  18 August 2000

Jim Dean of the Playboy Mailing List has given us several appearances by Karen in various issues of Playboy's Newsstand Specials.  Entries listed below without descriptions are unconfirmed.  I have verified that two of Jim's submissions are of cousin Elaine Morton (Miss June 1970).  And they have been removed.  The remainder are as described.  Research is my life!  -tlj  (Also, thanks to Raymond Miskura for doing the actual data entry for Jim's submissions.)
 

All in the Family; Playboy Magazine; July 1978; tlj, Raymond Miskura
This is why we're all here isn't it?  Beginning on page 112 Karen appears as Playmate of the Month, Miss July 1978.  My favorite picture is still the head shot which opens the pictorial.  Nudity isn't everything you know.

Dear Playboy; Playboy Magazine; October 1978; Raymond Miskura
As summer follows spring so the playmate of the month appears in Dear Playboy three months after her centerfold appearance.  I submitted my two cents worth for Karen.  It was the first time I ever wrote to Playboy.  However, my letter was not chosen to accompany the picture which appears on page 26.

Playmate Calendar ad; Playboy Magazine; November 1978; Raymond Miskura
Page 282.  Another in the series of what can be considered normal appearances for Playmates during the course of their year.

1979 Playboy Playmate Calendar; circa November 1978; tlj, Karen Elaine Morton
April.  This entry goes hand in hand with the previous one.  I found a copy at GlamourCon.  Debra Jo Fondren appears on the envelope.  I never really appreciated what cute knees Karen has until I cropped this picture for uploading.  So why did I crop it?  Karen feels the picture as published shows too much and the lady is the final authority.  Still a great pic.

Playboy's Playmate Review; Playboy Magazine; January 1979; Raymond Miskura
Page 246.  The annual Playmate Review.  Since this is the 25th anniversary issue, someone out there should be able to give us more details about Karen's appearance in this pictorial.  (I don't even want to think about what happened to my copy.)

Playmates' Progress; Playboy Magazine; January 1979; Raymond Miskura
Page 254.

The World of Playboy; Playboy Magazine; February 1979; Raymond Miskura
Page 9.

History of the World, Part 1; Film; 1981; Raymond Miskura; tlj, Internet Movie Database
Along with sister playmates:  Lisa Sohm, Michele Drake, Jeana Tomasina, Lisa Welch, Janis Schmitt and Heidi Sorenson, Karen appears as a Vestal Virgin in this epic Mel Brooks comedy.  I don't know if this picture is available on DVD, but I would recommend that format for playmate hunting.  My poor VHS copy is worn to a frazzle and I STILL can't tell who's who.

Jenny/867-5309; Music Video; circa 1982; Chris Krolak (confirmed by KEM)
Karen appears as the title character in this Tommy Tutone video of the early eighties.  I'm looking for a copy of this video to upload to the KEMTP...or at least include in my own collection.

Playboy's Book of Lingerie; May 1984; Jim Dean
page 35.

Playboy's Girls of Summer #2; July 1984; Jim Dean
page 41.

Playboy's Playmates: The Second 15 Years; November 1984; Jim Dean
pages 19,67.

Blondes, Brunettes & Redheads; 1985; tlj
page 28.  Two quarter page pictures of Karen, both showing that cascade of blonde hair that got her into this early NSS.

Playboy's Book of Lingerie; March/April 1987; tlj
page ??.  In the March/April 2000 issue Playboy's Book of Lingerie terminated their Playmate Lingerie Flashback feature.  Just when the playmates of 1978 were scheduled to appear!  One person I know was very upset about this (More later).  It was replaced by the Book of Lingerie flashback feature which in the May/June 2000 issue featured the March/April 1987 issue.  (Are you following this?)  Anyway, to make a long story less long, Karen appeared in this issue.  She remembers the shoot very well.  She remembers the wine was Soave Bola (sp?). When she told me about it she laughed.  Oh what we once thought was hip!  (Note:  Of course, their picture doesn't have the autograph.)

Playboy's Country Girls; September 1987; Jim Dean
page 53.

Playboy's Girls of Winter; December 1988; Jim Dean
page 67.

Playboy's Book of Lingerie; May/June 1989; Jim Dean
page 19.

Book of Lingerie; January/February 1990; Raymond Miskura, tlj
Page 23.  Twelve years after her centerfold appearance one of Playboy's thousands of file pictures appeared as a half page image in BOL.

Playboy's Nudes; December 1992; Jim Dean
Page 101.  When I said I was looking for new pictures myself, I wasn't kidding, and this offering from Jim Dean is just the thing.  From the same shoot as our valentine offering, this full page image is exquisite Karen and I recommend all serious fans get a copy.  This picture is not in Karen's portfolio at the Playboy Cyber Club.  Stay tuned and thanks Jim!

The Playmate Book; 1996; tlj
In the natural course of the book, Karen's centerfold shot appears on page 220 (with an inset photo of cousin Elaine Morton).  Also on this page is a Mansion West party shot of a smiling Karen with Clint Eastwood.  On page 239, in the Playmate Reunion pictures she appears with September 1978 playmate Rosanne Katon; again:  smiling (see below).

Playboy's Pocket Playmates; March 1996; Jim Dean
Page 72.  This is Volume 1, Number 3, 1982-1977 of the six issue Pocket Playmates series.  I should have remembered this one since I have the set myself.  Another picture from my favorite shoot.  A full page.  As always, Karen looks like an angel.

Book of Lingerie; July/August 1996; tlj
Page 18.  The 50th Issue BOL, which was an index of models' appearances to that date.  This is how I found the January/February 1990 appearance.  It is the same picture.

Facts & Figures; 1997; tlj
Page 15.  At thirty-two inches, Karen shares the distinction of the smallest busted playmate with seven others.  Only Maria Checa and Anne-Marie Fox are listed in this NSS.  The quarter page image appearing in this issue appears to come from the same shoot as my favorite head shot.

Celebrating Centerfolds:  Aug, Sep, Oct; September 1999; Raymond Miskura, tlj
page 74.  Karen celebrates her birthday on October 3rd, so when Playboy started doing these I was looking for this one.  Karen appears in a quarter page shot.  An important detail of this picture is that of all Karen's published modeling shots, this is the only one I have seen where she ALMOST smiles.  When I asked her about this lack of teeth at GlamourCon she claims she smiled in hundreds of pictures for Playboy.  The photo vault still holds treasures.  (We are in search of the first Karen Elaine Morton "smiley face" picture.)

Playboy's Book of Lingerie; May/June 2000; tlj
page 51, 95.  Karen's appearance in the March/April 1987 is noted in the new Book of Lingerie Flashback feature.  The image on page 51 is the same as described above.  As mentioned above, one person I know was very upset about the termination of the Playmate Lingerie Flashback just when the PMs of 1978 were due to appear.  This person was sufficiently ticked off to write Jeff Cohen a nasty email which, amazingly, was published on page 95 of this issue of the BOL.  Thus giving us two very different images of Karen in the new millennium.  If you're interested in the actual email that got Jeff Cohen to put Karen in the letters section of this BOL, click here.  Now if I can only convince Jeff to print the "smiley face" pictures.

Playboy's Book of Lingerie; September/October 2000; tlj
page 92.  The folks at BOL claim that the vitriolic tirade from the May/June issue was one of their favorite letters in the first 75 issues.  I think they just wanted an excuse to publish more pictures of Karen.