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Cast members from “Much Ado About Murder…A Midsummer’s Nightmare,” one of the murder theater productions <strong>Cynthia</strong> <strong>Morgan</strong> created for Maricopans. Photo courtesy of <strong>Cynthia</strong> <strong>Morgan</strong> She turned down a standing role on “As the World Turns” because of a love interest and rejected a $25,000 offer to appear nude in Playboy. “I could do nude modeling or get into the party scène, but I just always felt my mom and dad would find out,” she says. However, her big modeling break came with Ford Motor Company. <strong>Morgan</strong> served as one of Ford’s primary models along with Farrah Fawcett for eight years. “I essentially did Ford trucks, the Thunderbird and Fiesta, while Fawcett did Cougar and Mustang,” she says. A chance to land on the cover of Cosmopolitan changed <strong>Morgan</strong>’s career path. After appearing as a model on the inner pages of Cosmo, she was tapped to be the cover girl in a 1977 issue. But, unfortunately, she fell from a cliff and broke her knee, making it impossible to make the photo shoot. As <strong>Morgan</strong> was healing from her injuries, her agent approached her with the idea of taking the acting skills she learned while working on shows like ABC’s “COZ,” “Laverne and Shirley,” “Police Story” and several ‘B’ movies, to teach aspiring actors. “They told me I might never walk again,” she says. Behind the Camera In 1977 while she was recovering, two agents in L.A. asked her to teach others to do what she did so well. “It was a great idea, so I started an acting school,” she says. <strong>Morgan</strong> had taught actors in L.A. for several years when she was approached by Hollywood mogul Phil Benjamin in 1980. He suggested she expand her acting school to San Diego and train actors there to work on “Simon and Simon.” “They wanted to hire local actors rather than paying actors from L.A. to commute,” <strong>Morgan</strong> says, citing the belief that many actors in L.A. were of the Old Globe acting style and overly dramatic. “Back then there was a saying ‘you couldn’t get to Hollywood from San Diego.’ I helped change that.” For her work in the city she earned a Screen Actors Guild award. After the “Simon and Simon” run, <strong>Morgan</strong> spent the next 10-plus years as a casting agent and acting coach, working with 24 InMaricopa.com | Vol. 5 Issue 3
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