Vice President's Home Stand-In For Playboy Mansion


CHICAGO _ The home of a former U.S. vice president will morph into the Chicago Playboy Mansion for television.

The Charles Gates Dawes House in Evanston will be filmed by crews from Twentieth Century Fox TV for an NBC television pilot.

Evanston History Center Executive Director Eden Pearlman says show producers asked some time ago about using the interior of Dawes House.

The real Playboy Mansion was located on North State Street in Chicago and was home to Hugh Hefner from 1959 until the mid 1970s, when he moved to Los Angeles.

Pearlman says crews will be using some rooms on the first floor of Dawes House, but primarily the library.

Published reports have NBC considering an hour-long drama focused on women working as Playboy bunnies in New York. (AP)Associated Press text, photo and/or graphic material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither these AP Materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.

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