- Good friend of Soupy Sales.
- Became good friends with actress Yvonne Craig [aka "Batgirl"] while both were co-starring with Elvis Presley in Kissin' Cousins (1964). After the two women filmed a TV pilot (along with Joanna Moore) based on the film Three Coins in the Fountain (1970) in Rome, Italy, they took side trips to Florence, Venice, Vienna, Paris, and London together.
- In 1961, actress Ginger Rogers, who was her father Jack Pepper's ex-wife, shot a pilot film in the same studio where Cynthia was starring in her own show Margie (1961). Cynthia cordially introduced herself to the star and the two wound up lunching together quite frequently.
- Published her memoir: "Pigtails, Presley & Pepper" with Victor J. Hanson in 2014.
- Her first professional job was as a ensemble dancer in a 1958 San Bernardino musical production of "The King and I." The show starred Marni Nixon as Anna. Nixon earlier provided the voice of Deborah Kerr's Anna in the film version of The King and I (1956).
- On the TV show Margie, Cynthia's character always had long pigtails. This was a wig that was attached to her own hair for every show.
- Was a Hollywood Deb Star of 1962.
- Attended Hollywood High School where she took singing, dancing and acting lessons.
- Her mother, Dawn (nee Fairy Lila Stanton; 1913-2006), was once a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies in New York. She also danced for Billy Rose in several of his stage extravaganzas and performed in the George White "Scandals". She once roomed with Eleanor Powell and had a 20th Century-Fox contract.
- Her father, vaudeville singer and performer Jack Pepper (aka Jack Culpepper), was Ginger Rogers' first husband. He was half of the comedy duo, Salt & Pepper, before headlining as a solo act. Toured in WWII with Bob Hope with the USO.
- Appears at Elvis Presley film festivals and autograph shows around the county and abroad.
- Cynthia's Hollywood Memoir "Pigtails, Presley & Pepper" co-written with Victor J Hanson won the Ella Dickey Literacy Award in 2022. Her book is registered in the U.S. Library of Congress.
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