Stella Stevens
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| Stella Stevens | |
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| January 1960 | |
| Preceded by | Ellen Stratton |
| Succeeded by | Susie Scott |
| Born | October 1, 1938 Yazoo City, Mississippi, United States |
| Measurements | Bust: 37" Waist: 22" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Weight | 118 lb (54 kg/8.4 st) |
Stella Stevens (born Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) is an American actress, film producer, film director and pinup model who began her acting career in 1959.
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[edit] Biography
Stevens was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
She married electrician Noble Herman Stephens on December 1, 1954, probably in Memphis, Tennessee, with whom she had her only child, actor/producer Andrew Stevens. She and Herman Stephens divorced three years later, although she retained a variation of his surname as her own professional name.
Stevens was first under contract to 20th Century Fox, then dropped after six months. After winning the role of "Appassionata Von Climax" for the musical Li'l Abner (1959), she gained a contract with Paramount Pictures (1959-1963) and later Columbia Pictures (1964-1968). She shared the 1960 Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" with Tuesday Weld, Angie Dickinson, and Janet Munro for Say One For Me.[1]
In 1960, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January (and had featured pictorials in 1965 and 1968). Stevens was listed among the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th Century (#27). During the 1960s, she was one of the ten most photographed women in the world, along with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Ann-Margret and Raquel Welch.
In 1962, she starred opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls!. Later that year, she portrayed Jerry Lewis's love interest in The Nutty Professor. This was followed by other comic turns as the former "Miss Montana" beauty queen in Vincente Minnelli's The Courtship of Eddie's Father and as Dean Martin's inept partner in the Matt Helm spy spoof The Silencers.
Stevens was featured in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue in 1970 with Jason Robards. In 1972, she appeared in Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure as "Linda Rogo" (the former-hooker wife of Ernest Borgnine's character).
Throughout her career, Stevens appeared in dozens of TV shows and was a regular on the 1981-1982 prime-time soap opera Flamingo Road. She teamed with the late Sandy Dennis in a touring production of an all-female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, playing the messy one. She produced and directed two films, The Ranch (1989) and The American Heroine (1979).
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- The Ranch (1989)
- The American Heroine (1979)
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[edit] References
- ^ Golden Globes official site, retrieved February 7, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Official Website for Stella Stevens
- Stella Stevens at Playboy.com
- Stella Stevens at the Internet Movie Database
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