For the fictional character, see Laurie Strode.

Cynthia Jeanette Myers (September 12, 1950 – November 4, 2011[1]) was an American model, actress, and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1968 issue.

Career

Born in Toledo, Ohio[2] and attending Woodward High School,[3] Myers began getting modeling offers when she was fourteen years old. Many people suggested to her that she should model for Playboy.[4] According to Myers, she was 13 when her breasts began to develop, and when she was fifteen she submitted some photographs to Playboy. Her bust had reached size 39 DD by the time the photoshoot for the magazine took place in June 1968. Myers was the first Playboy Playmate born in the 1950s when she appeared in the magazine in December 1968.[2] The pictures were taken when she was 17 years old,[5] but it was Playboy's policy at that time to wait until a Playmate turned 18 before her pictures would be published.[3] In the meantime she moved into an apartment at the Playboy Mansion in Chicago and worked at the Chicago Playboy Club. At the mansion she met attendees from the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.[3]

Her pictorial, released in December 1968,[3] was taken in front of the Toledo Art Museum[6] and was titled "Wholly Toledo!" because of Myers' hometown and her large breasts.[1] She appeared on the cover and in the centerfold, which was photographed by Pompeo Posar.[2] Her appearance in Playboy magazine took place during the Vietnam War. She quickly became a favorite of the American troops serving in Vietnam, receiving many letters from them and trying to answer them all.[4] Her centerfold appears in the 1987 film Hamburger Hill [1] and in the 1989 film The Siege of Firebase Gloria.

After her magazine debut, she carried out a promotional tour for Playboy and then returned to school, after which she had a number of jobs, including being an usher at a movie theater.[4] She met Burt Lancaster who introduced her to Sydney Pollack, leading to her having a small uncredited role in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). She also made frequent appearances on Hugh Hefner's Playboy After Dark TV series in 1969. She joined the Actors And Directors Lab in Beverly Hills and studied there with Bruce Dern.[3] She took the leading role of the sensitive bisexual rock and roll singer and bass player Casey Anderson in Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). She followed this with a supporting role in the Western, Molly and Lawless John (1972).[1]

She appeared in the 1970, 1971, and 1972 Playmate Calendars[3] and was also voted No. 10 “Playmate of the Century” in a Playboy poll.[6]

In 1994, it became known that a nude photo of Myers (along with fellow playmates Angela Dorian, Reagan Wilson and Leslie Bianchini) was scanned and inserted into Apollo 12 extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by the Apollo 12 backup crew (Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Al Worden) at NASA.[7][8][9]

In 2000 she shot new topless and nude photos for a Playboy retrospective. She had left open the possibility that she would pose nude again.[citation needed]

Cynthia had resided in southern California with her husband, whom she met on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada in 1981, and their son, Robert. She continued to model, ran a website featuring her work, and was about to appear in a feature film, Please Sign it Love.[citation needed]

In 2009, Myers became a spokeswoman for Schlitz beer.[6]

Bill Cosby

Sometime after 1997, Myers provided interviews for the book Centerfolds, which was released in 2015. In these undated interviews, she claimed she personally witnessed Bill Cosby "use drugs to have sex with women" at the Playboy Mansion, stating that his actions repulsed her so much she was unable to "shed a tear" when Cosby's son Ennis was murdered in 1997.[10]

Death

Myers died at age 61 on November 4, 2011.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Soares, Andre (6 November 2011). "Playboy Playmate Cynthia Myers Dies: 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' Star". Alt Film Guide.
  2. ^ a b c "Cynthia Myers' official biography". Cynthia Myers. Archived from the original on 18 June 2001.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Steve Sullivan's biography of Cynthia Myers". Cynthia Myers. Archived from the original on 12 May 2008.
  4. ^ a b c Myers, Cynthia (27 December 2014). "Interview With Playboy Magazine's Cynthia Myers". Strip Magazine (Interview). Interviewed by James, Gary.
  5. ^ "Randy Waage's interview with Cynthia Myers". Retro Crush. Archived from the original on 8 August 2008.
  6. ^ a b c Hensch, Mark (3 July 2009). "Pin-up still turns heads with beer campaign". Toledo Free Press. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
  7. ^ Jardin, Xeni (13 January 2007). "Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011.
  8. ^ Rowe, Chip (10 January 2007). "On Buckeyes, Nanotechnology and Playmates in Space". Playboy. Archived from the original on 17 March 2007.
  9. ^ "Profile". Archived from the original on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
  10. ^ Murray, Jennifer (August 19, 2015). "New Book Reveals Playboy Playmate's Posthumous Allegations Of Bill Cosby Drugging Women For Sex". Inquisitr. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
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