Stella Stevens

Geboren am
1. Oktober 1938 · Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA
Verstorben
17. Februar 2023 · Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA (alzheimer's disease)
Geburtsname
Estelle Caro Eggleston
Größe
1,65 m

Turned down the role of Hot Lips on the M*A*S*H* television series to focus on her film career. She has said she has since regretted the decision.
In early 2015, she and partner Bob Kulick sold her longtime home in Beverly Hills. She is now in a long-term Alzheimer's care facility in Los Angeles where Kulick visited her until his death from heart disease on May 28th, 2020.
Did not want to appear in the film Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) and was nearly suspended by Paramount. Her protests hurt her relationship with the studio. She has stated several times that she refuses to watch this film.
Son Andrew mostly grew up living with his mother in Beverly Hills but after the Manson murders, decided to live in Memphis with his grandparents where he went to high school and college.
Recently, she was voted one of the 100 sexiest women of the century; she was No. 27.

I did the best I could with the tools I had and the opportunities given me. My life was screwed up early by getting pregnant at 15 and married, then a baby at 16, then divorced at 17. But in spite of that start, I've done all right.
It's been my heart's desire to direct since I started doing movies. I directed two films in the '70s and '80s. One was a feature-length documentary. But I've still not made my debut with a big film. I'm working on doing that now... So why has it taken me so long? Because it was hard as a "sexpot", as I was labeled in the '60s and '70s, to have people take me seriously as a producer or director. They would rather see me without my clothes on.
[working with Elvis] I wish I'd never worked with Elvis. Sometimes you meet someone who could be your idol; but, after the meeting, you're so disappointed that you don't like them anymore.
I am basically a comedienne, I always have been. The sex [in her films] has always been 'comedy sex'. A lot of the serious dramatic roles I've played, I've thought to myself, 'Oh God, they were dreary.' I like the pacing of comedy, the excitement of it.
[on regretting her 1960 Playboy Playmate magazine shoot] I had been dropped from my contract at 20th Century Fox, didn't know a soul in Los Angeles and had a child to support.