Actor Stella Stevens is best known for movies like Nutty Professor (1963) and Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), died on Friday. Her son Herman Andrew Stevens confirmed the veteran actor’s death saying that she was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for a long time. Stevens was 84 at the time of her death.
Stella Stevens’s top movies and TV shows
Stella Stevens was an American actress. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. Stevens also worked as a film producer, director, and writer. She appeared in three Playboy pictorials and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960.
Stella Stevens awards and nominations
In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. Stevens also worked as a film producer, director, and writer. When Stevens was four, her parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where they lived on Carrington Road near Highland Street.
She attended St. Anne’s Catholic School on Highland Street and Sacred Heart School on Jefferson Avenue, finishing her final year of high school in 1955 at the Memphis Evening School at Memphis Tech High School.
