CYNTHIA PEPPER: The “Camelot” Blonde

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Issue Number 477
March 2015

“Growing up with parents in show business helped create that so-called ‘normal’ attitude about achieving and handling fame and the elusiveness of it all. It didn’t turn my head.”

CYNTHIA PEPPER (1940- ) was a Hollywood by-product of the early 1960’s Kennedy era, an innocent moment of time that became idealized as “The Camelot Years.” This petite, lovely, fresh-faced leading lady with a cute, slight overbite became a baby boomer TV star as the titular teenage 1920’s flapper MARGIE (1961-1962). Typically playing the virginal girlfriend every boy’s mother wanted her son to marry, Cynthia later co-starred as Elvis Presley’s love interest in his musical movie vehicle KISSIN’ COUSINS (1964). By the end of the decade, the actress chose to leave her career in favor of family. She was spotted in later years on the autograph show circuit and at Presley film festivals.

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