Cynthia Pepper
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Cynthia Pepper
| image = Cynthia Pepper Margie 1962.JPG
| imagesize =
| caption = Pepper as Margie, 1962
| birthname = Cynthia Anne Culpepper
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|09|04}}
| birth_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
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| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Mervyn L. Edwards|1960|1968|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|James Pazillo|1969|1996|end=divorced}}
}}
| children = 1
| father = Jack Pepper
| yearsactive = 1958–2005
}}
Cynthia Pepper (born Cynthia Anne Culpepper; September 4, 1940) is a retired American actress whose principal work was during the early 1960s. She was the star of the 1961–1962 television series Margie. She played Midge (a WAC PFC) in Elvis Presley's Kissin' Cousins (1964).
Early years
Culpepper was born in Los Angeles on September 4, 1940,{{cite book |last1=Lisanti |first1=Tom |title=Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties |date=7 May 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9342-5 |pages=151–160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8bUpOl2TgYC&dq=%22Cynthia+Pepper%22&pg=PA151 |access-date=November 22, 2021 |language=en}} the daughter of entertainer Jack Pepper (Edward Jackson Culpepper), and Pepper's second wife, Dawn Stanton.{{cite book|last=Cozad|first=W. Lee|title=More Magnificent Mountain Movies: The Silver Screen Years 1940-2004|publisher=Rim of the World Historical Society Publication|year=2006|isbn=0972337229|edition=1st|location=Lake Arrowhead, California, USA|page=238}} Her father was Ginger Rogers's dance partner prior to Fred Astaire. Her mother was also a dancer.
After she graduated from Hollywood High School, Pepper worked as a model and typist and took night classes at Los Angeles City College.{{cite news |last1=Langley |first1=Frank |title=Cynthia Pepper: Perfect Teenager? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56285713/cynthia-pepper/ |accessdate=July 29, 2020 |work=Press and Sun-Bulletin |date=April 21, 1962 |location=New York, Binghamton |page=29}|via = Newspapers.com}}
Career
At age 18, Pepper appeared on an episode of Divorce Court on television. In 1960-1961, she was cast as next-door teenager Jean Pearson, the romantic interest of young Mike Douglas (Tim Considine) in My Three Sons. The next year, Pepper starred in Margie, in the role of the Roaring Twenties teenager Margie Clayton. Pepper was 21 when Margie began.
In 1964, Pepper appeared in an episode of Perry Mason, titled "The Case of the Drifting Dropout".
In 1965, Pepper was named as the co-star of Sally and Sam, a series "tentatively scheduled" to be broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Mondays on CBS.{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Val |title=Romantic Series on C.B.S. Schedule |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/10/archives/romantic-series-on-cbs-schedule-general-foods-is-expected-to.html |access-date=November 22, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1965 |page=83|url-access=subscription}}
She also guest-starred as Amanda Peterson in an episode of The Addams Family, titled "New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family".
Personal life
On April 17, 1960, Pepper married Mervyn Edwards.{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=David C. |title=Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5582-9 |pages=107–112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCjT3AvbN5QC&dq=margie+%22Cynthia+Pepper%22&pg=PA109 |access-date=November 22, 2021 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0672580}}
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Category:American television actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:Actresses from Greater Los Angeles
Category:Actors from the Las Vegas Valley
Category:20th-century American actresses