Actor Stella Stevens is best known for movies like Nutty Professor (1963) and Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962). Stevens made her film debut in Say One for Me (1959), a modest musical produced by and starring Bing Crosby, appearing in the minor role of a chorus girl. Born Estelle Caro Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1938, she married at 16 and gave birth to her first and only child, actor/producer Andrew Stevens in 1955 when she was 17, and divorced two years later.
Where is Stella Stevens today?
Stella Stevens, a Hollywood star of the 1960s and ’70s known for her voluptuous figure and graceful comic touch in such films such as “The Nutty Professor” with Jerry Lewis and the cruise-ship disaster story “The Poseidon Adventure,” died Feb. 17 at a nursing home in Los Angeles. Stevens died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Los Angeles on February 17, 2023, at the age of 84.
Stevens’ contract with 20th Century-Fox was dropped after six months. After winning the role of Appassionata Von Climax in the musical Li’l Abner (1959), she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures (1959-1963).
