Reportedly, Hugh Hefner himself saw it and evidently enjoyed it, going so far as to promote the original, brazenly unofficial USA Network project in both print and broadcast interviews.
The film is told in flashback from the perspective of Bobbie Arnstein, Hugh Hefner's longtime personal assistant, and primarily covers the years from Hefner's childhood through 1975, when Arnstein committed suicide. The film alleges Hefner basically left Arnstein hanging out to dry after she was convicted on a cocaine possession charge and awaiting prison time. That is the only part of the film, which he reportedly liked, Hefner disagreed with. He was known at the time to have supported Arnstein through her legal troubles, even insisting that she be allowed to continue living in the Playboy Mansion against the advice of his counsel. But producers felt it better fit the script's depiction of Hef as a disloyal weasel who abandoned Arnstein in her hour of greatest need.
Brenda Grate's debut.
In the movie Hugh Hefner tells his wife Millie about the Kinsey-Report "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female". The real Hugh Hefner was fascinated with the works of Alfred Kinsey and his Reports were electrifying him. He later said that Kinsey had a tremendous Impact on him.
Near the end of the movie the spirit of Bobbie Arnstein calls Kimberly Conrad Hef's "Playmate for life". 11 years after the movie's release Hugh Hefner and Kimberly got divorced.
