Cynthia Myers

Cynthia Myers
Photo courtesy of Cynthia Myers.
Playboy centerfold appearance
December 1968
Preceded by	Paige Young
Succeeded by	Leslie Bianchini
Personal details
Born	September 12, 1950(1950-09-12) Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Died	November 4, 2011 (age 61)
Measurements	Bust: 39"DD Waist: 24" Hips: 36"
Height	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Weight	119 lb (54 kg; 8.5 st)

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

Career

Cynthia Myers was the first Playboy Playmate born in the 1950s when she appeared in the magazine in December 1968. The pictures were shot in June 1968^[1] when she was 17 years old,^[2] but it was Playboy's policy by that time to wait until a Playmate turned 18 before her pictures would be published.^[3] Her pictorial was titled "Wholly Toledo!" because of Myers' hometown and large breasts. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, and quickly became a favorite of American troops in Vietnam. The centerfold appears in the 1987 film Hamburger Hill. According to Myers, she was 13 when her breasts began to develop to the size 39 DD they were when she appeared in Playboy.

After her magazine debut, Myers made frequent appearances on Hugh Hefner's Playboy After Dark TV series in 1969. She made an uncredited appearance in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? before taking the leading role of the sensitive lesbian rock and roll singer and bass player Casey Anderson in Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. She followed this with a supporting role in the Western, Molly and Lawless John (1972).

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 pranksters at NASA.^[4][5][6]

Myers' death was noted by Hugh Hefner on his Twitter page on November 4, 2011.^[7]

See also

• List of people in Playboy 1960–1969

References

1. ^ Cynthia Myers' official biography. Retrieved on 2001-06-18.
2. ^ Randy Waage's interview with Cynthia Myers. Retrieved on 2006-10-27.
3. ^ Steve Sullivan's biography of Cynthia Myers. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
4. ^ Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists - Boing Boing
5. ^ The Playboy Blog
6. ^ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/a12.lmpcuf08.jpg
7. ^ http://www.contactmusic.com/news/playboy-playmate-cynthia-myers-dies_1256222

External links

• "Cynthia Myers' official website". http://www.cynthiamyers.com. Retrieved 2006-12-14. 
• Cynthia Myers at Playboy.com
• Cynthia Myers at the Internet Movie Database
• "Cynthia Myers: retroCrush Interviews the Star of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and the #10 Playmate of the Century". retroCrush. http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2006/cynthiamyers/. Retrieved 2006-10-27. 

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Name	Myers, Cynthia
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Date of birth	1950-09-12
Place of birth	Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
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