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Stella Stevens is also a stage name of the adult actress Veronika Balázs. Stella Stevens (born Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1 1936; some sources cite 1938) is an American actress, film producer and film director who began her acting career in 1959.
Biography Stevens was born in Yazoo City (although some sources mistakenly indicate the hamlet of Hot Coffee, Mississippi as the place of her birth). She married Noble Herman Stephens on September 1 1954, probably in Memphis, when she was either 15 or 17 years old, by whom she had her only child, actor/producer Andrew Stevens. She and Noble Stephens divorced several years later, although she retained a variation of his surname as her own professional name. She was formerly Kate Jackson's mother-in-law. She has three grandchildren. She was first under contract to 20th Century Fox, then dropped after six months. After winning the role of "Appassionatta Von Climax" in Li'l Abner (1959), she got a contract with Paramount Studios (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. In 1960, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January (and had featured pictorals in 1965 and 1968). She was listed among the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th century ( In 1962, she starred opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls!. Later, she portrayed Jerry Lewis's love interest in the 1962 The Nutty Professor. 1970 saw her featured in The Ballad of Cable Hogue with Jason Robards. In 1972, she appeared in Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure as "Linda Rogo" (Ernest Borgnine's former hooker of a wife, who meets a tragic end). Throughout her career, she appeared in dozens of TV shows and was a regular on the 1982-1983 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). See also | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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