 Click to View Photos of Stella Stevens | Stella Stevens born Estelle Eggleston; October 1, 1938. Is an American film, television, and stage actress. She began her acting career in 1959, and starred in such popular films as Girls! Girls! Girls! . The Nutty Professor , The Courtship of Eddie's Father , The Silencers . Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows , The Ballad of Cable Hogue , and The Poseidon Adventure .
Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Bonanza , The Love Boat , Hart to Hart , Newhart , Murder, She Wrote , Magnum, P.I. , Highlander: The Series , and Twenty Good Years . In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. Stevens has also worked as a film producer, director, and writer. She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960.
She was born Estelle Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the only child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston and his wife Dovey Estelle . One of her great-grandfathers was Henry Clay Tyler, an early settler from Boston and a jeweler who gave the Yazoo City courthouse cupola its clock.
When Stevens was four, her parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where they lived on Carrington Road near Highland Street. Her father was an insurance salesman, and her mother was a nurse. Stevens 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.
At age 16, she married electrician Noble Herman Stephens on December 1, 1954, probably in Memphis. They had one child, Herman Andrew Stephens, who was later known as actor/producer Andrew Stevens. He is Stella's only child. The couple divorced in 1957, but Stella and her son retained a variation of her ex-husband's surname as their own professional surnames. While studying at Memphis State College, she became interested in acting and modeling. According to her official biography, "Her schooling in Memphis, included a couple of years at Memphis State University, where she was noticed in the school play Bus Stop. The Memphis Press-Scimitar review of that performance in Memphis sparked her career."Full name: Stella Stevens Born: October 1, 1938Birthplace: Yazoo City, USA |
