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Stella Stevens
Age: 73
Height: 5' 5"
Birth Place: Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA
Born: Oct. 1st, 1936
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BIOGRAPHY: A native of Hot Coffee, Mississippi, Stella was married at 15, a mother at 16 and divorced at 17. While attending Memphis State College, Stella became interested in acting and modeling. Her film debut was a bit part in Say One for Me (1959), but her appearance in Li'l Abner (1959) as Appassionata Von Climax is the one that got her noticed. Then her centerfold spread in Playboy was one of the most popular issues. She co-starred with some of the biggest names in movies such as Bobby Darin in Too Late Blues (1961); Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962); Glenn Ford (I) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963); Jerry Lewis (III) in The Nutty Professor (1963); and Dean Martin (I) in The Silencers (1966). She appeared on television in "Surfside 6" (1960); "Ben Casey" (1961) and the soap "General Hospital" (1963).
By the late 60s, her career had leveled off and she was appearing in roles based on her looks. One of her best performances at that time was in the movie The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), where she played Hildy, and showed that her talent was more than physical. But then she appeared in a poor offering like Slaughter (1972). In the 70s and 80s, Stella became a fixture in movies made for television and appeared in a number of television series. Her big screen career may have slowed during that time, but she has appeared in a number of movies in every decade since she debuted.
TRIVIA:
- She was discovered modeling in the tea room of Goldsmith's Department Store in Memphis Tennessee, where a press-agent from United Artists told her if she could get to New York while he was there, he could introduce her to the executives at Twentieth Century Fox.
- Nude model, actress and adult film star 'Kitten Natividad' (qv) worked for Stevens as a maid during the mid-1960s before herself breaking into the movies.
- Longtime partner of guitarist 'Bob Kulick' (qv).
- Ex-mother-in-law of 'Kate Jackson (I)' (qv).
- Some sources list her birthplace as Hot Coffee, Mississippi.
- In 1981, she produced and directed a documentary profiling a variety of women from many walks of life, entitled _The American Heroine (1979)_ (qv). Her film crew was comprised largely of film students from the University of Texas at Arlington. They had first worked with Stella in 1979 when she traveled to Texas to act for them, free of charge, in a short class film they were making, entitled "Lewis," directed by film student 'Tim Hatcher' (qv).
- Playboy Playmate of the Month January 1960. Also appeared in Playboy in 1965 and 1968.
- In July 2004, she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with 'Andrew Prine' (qv), 'Heather Lowe (I)' (qv), 'Lane Bradbury' (qv), 'Sonny Shroyer' (qv), and 'Jeremy Slate (I)' (qv).
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