The story of how Marilyn Monroe became Playboy's first pin-up.

Hugh Hefner persuades a subscription manager to pose in the magazine's first centerfold.

As Hugh Hefner and Playboy enjoy national success in the mid-1950s, Hefner speaks about social issues and partakes in special perks.

Hefner opens the Playboy Club in Chicago and creates a nightlife hostess.

Hefner creates a platform to discuss pressing social issues, and publishes an interview with Malcolm X that creates controversy.

Hefner becomes addicted to a drug that helps him work day and night, and publishes what would turn out to be Martin Luther King Jr.'s final written words.