Stella Stevens

2023 - 2 - 18

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Stella Stevens, who brought glamour and comic touch to films, dies ... (The Washington Post)

One of the last of the Hollywood studio starlets, she appeared in “The Nutty Professor” and “The Poseidon Adventure.”

Stevens never remarried, but she had a 40-year relationship with Bob Kulick, a rock guitarist and producer who died in 2020. She modeled at a department store by day and completed high school at night before enrolling at what is now the University of Memphis. In that film, she had the part of a beauty queen who ends up sitting in on drums at a jazz club and falling for Ford’s best friend, played by [Jerry Van Dyke](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jerry-van-dyke-comic-actor-in-tvs-coach-and-my-mother-the-car-dies-at-86/2018/01/06/2cfe8776-f33b-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_15). “And I always say that to love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance,” Ms. “I didn’t like being a child.” At 16, she married Herman Stephens, another teenager who worked as an electrician. “And after watching you, I know that you and you will be very happy together.” After a forgettable role in “Girls! In 1960, she spiced up her résumé with a revealing pictorial in Playboy magazine — the first of three over the next eight years. Stella Stevens, a Hollywood star of the 1960s and ’70s known for her voluptuous figure and graceful comic touch in such films as “The Nutty Professor” with Jerry Lewis and the cruise-ship disaster story “The Poseidon Adventure,” died Feb. She made her debut in a 1959 musical, “ I don’t know what to do, but I muddle around and we play the scene, and then we play it again and again, and then suddenly he finds the truth he was searching for, and we go on.” As she was groomed as a contract player by various studios, she was often compared to Marilyn Monroe and 1930s star Jean Harlow for her smoldering blond looks.

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Stella Stevens, Hollywood Bombshell Who Yearned for More, Dies ... (The New York Times)

She starred alongside the likes of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. But she wanted to direct and write, and she felt held back by industry sexism.

Most of them were guest appearances on shows like “Murder, She Wrote,” “The Love Boat” and “Magnum P.I.,” though she was also a member of the regular cast of several shows, including the soap opera “Santa Barbara.” Hefner to cancel the magazine feature, but he refused, and she appeared as Playmate of the Month in the January 1960 issue, a few months before winning her Golden Globe. She also wrote a novel, “Razzle Dazzle” (1989), which featured a thinly fictionalized version of herself. She turned to television and had roles in some 80 episodes over the next four decades. She won a Golden Globe in the “most promising newcomer” category for her role in “Say One for Me” (1959), a musical comedy starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds, but felt coerced into joining the cast of “Girls! (She later changed her surname to Stevens because, she said, it was easier for people to pronounce.) With a young son to feed, she took an offer from Playboy to pose nude for $5,000. She worked with many of the top directors and actors of the 1960s. She enrolled at Memphis State College, now the University of Memphis, with plans to become an obstetrician. Stevens hoped to have the time and reputation to become a director. 1, 1938, in Yazoo City, Miss., though she often told interviewers she was from a town called Hot Coffee, a nearby community. She starred alongside the likes of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis.

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Stella Stevens, actress known for The Nutty Professor and The ... (ABC News)

Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies, including Jerry Lee Lewis's The Nutty Professor, has died after a long illness.

She retired in 2010. It was a very exciting time." those were the golden years of Hollywood.

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Former screen siren dead at 84 (NEWS.com.au)

Actress Stella Stevens has died at the age of 84 after a battle with Alzheimer's, according to her family.

She also directed a documentary in 1979 titled The American Heroine. Girls! In 1989 she directed her son Andrew in the film The Ranch.

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'The Nutty Professor' actress Stella Stevens dead aged 84 after ... (Black Hills Pioneer)

Known as one of the biggest screen sirens of the 1970s, Stella Stevens has died aged 84 following a long battle with dementia.

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Stella Stevens, The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure ... (Vulture)

Stella Stevens, star in 'The Nutty Professor' and 'The Poseidon Adventure', has died at age 84. She suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Reflecting on her career at the time, she said, “I feel like I’ve just keyed the car, just scratched the surface, and that the whole auto is still sitting there in front of me.” Ankerich in 1994 that the industry viewed her as a “sexpot” because she had posed for Playboy, which made it difficult for her ambitions behind the camera to be taken seriously. In 1960, she won a New Star of the Year award at the Golden Globes, signed a contract with Paramount Pictures, and became a Playboy Playmate of the Month. That same year, she also landed a role in the musical Li’l Abner. Her profile rose again after she reluctantly became Elvis Presley’s co-star in the 1962 movie Girls! She made her film debut in the 1959 musical Say One For Me, which also starred Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.

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Actress Stella Stevens of 'Nutty Professor' and 'Poseidon Adventure ... (CNN)

Actress Stella Stevens, who appeared in a string of movies in the 1960s and '70s including "The Nutty Professor" and "The Poseidon Adventure," died Friday ...

Hopefully my mother’s work will be remembered for her collaborations with some of the entertainment industry’s biggest icons,” Andrew Stevens said. Girls! Her most famous roles came in 1963’s “The Nutty Professor” with Jerry Lewis and 1972’s “The Poseidon Adventure,” in which she was promoted as part of an “all-star cast” headed by Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine.

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Stella Stevens dies at 84 (Today.com)

The New York Times reported that Stevens died on Friday, Feb. 17 in Los Angeles at a hospice facility. Her son, actor Andrew Stevens, confirmed to the outlet ...

This role earned her a Golden Globe in 1960 for New Star of the Year. Her film debut came in 1959 with a role in “Say One For Me,” the musical comedy starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds. Girls!” Her family moved to Memphis when she was four. Girls! [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/movies/stella-stevens-dead.html) reported that Stevens died on Friday, Feb.

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Veteran US actress, best known for The Nutty Professor & The Poseidon Adventure, has died.

Girls!, Too Late Blues, and The Nutty Professor. Veteran US actress Stella Stevens, best known for The Nutty Professor & The Poseidon Adventure, has died aged 84. Veteran US actress, best known for The Nutty Professor & The Poseidon Adventure, has died.

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