| Stella Stevens | |
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| Playboy centerfold appearance | |
| January 1960 | |
| Preceded by | Ellen Stratton |
| Succeeded by | Susie Scott |
| Born | October 1, 1938 (1938-10-01) (age 70) Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA |
| 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 October 1, 1938[1] as Estelle Caro Eggleston) is an American film, television and stage actress, who began her acting career in 1959. She has also been a film producer, film director and pin-up girl.
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Stevens was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the only child of Dovey Estelle (née Caro) and Thomas Ellett Eggleston.[2] 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 and her son retained a variation of his surname as their own professional surnames.
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 signed 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.[3]
In 1960, Stevens 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 10 most photographed women in the world,[citation needed] along with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Ann-Margret and Raquel Welch.
In 1962, Stevens 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 also had a contract role on NBC's daytime drama Santa Barbara as Phyllis Blake from 1989 to 1990.
Stevens produced and directed two films, The Ranch (1989) and The American Heroine (1979).
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