ACTOR
Stella Stevens
- Known for
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Nickelodeon (1976), Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), A Town Called Bastard (1971)
18 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Stella Stevens is an actor best known for The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Nickelodeon and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.
All facts (18)
- #001
Stella Stevens turned down the role of Hot Lips on the television series M*A*S*H* in order to focus on her film career. She has since said she regretted the decision.
- #002
Stella Stevens did not want to appear in Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) and was nearly suspended by Paramount. Her protests damaged her relationship with the studio. She repeatedly stated that she refuses to watch the film.
- #003
Stella Stevens was recently named one of the 100 sexiest women of the century; she was number 27.
- #004
After their professional split, Stella Stevens became the only leading actress to appear in films with both Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
- #005
Stella Stevens was discovered while modeling in the tea room of Goldsmith's department store in Memphis, Tennessee, where a press agent from United Artists told her that if she could get to New York while he was there, he could introduce her to executives at 20th Century Fox.
- #006
Stella Stevens appeared in four films with her son Andrew Stevens: Las Vegas Lady (1975), Down the Drain (1990), The Terror Within II (1991) and Illicit Dreams (1994).
- #007
When Stella Stevens was four years old, her family moved to Memphis, TN. At just fifteen she married aspiring electrician Noble Stephens, and a year later she gave birth to her son Andrew. After graduating from high school she attended Memphis State College and soon divorced her husband of only two years.
- #008
Stella Stevens is the former mother-in-law of Kate Jackson.
- #009
In 1981, Stella Stevens produced and directed a documentary titled The American Heroine (1979) that profiled a variety of women from many walks of life. Much of the film crew consisted of film students from the University of Texas at Arlington. She had first worked with them in 1979, when she traveled to Texas to appear for free in "Lewis," a short class film directed by film student Tim Hatcher.
- #010
In 1983, Stella Stevens began a long-term relationship with rock guitarist Bob Kulick; they shared her home in Beverly Hills, California.
- #011
Stella Stevens signed her first contract with 20th Century Fox in 1959 at the age of 20. She was fired six months later and signed a seven-year contract with Paramount the same year. After roles previously promised to her (Harlow, The Carpetbaggers, Sylvia) were given to her fellow studio star Carroll Baker, she requested an early release and moved to Columbia Pictures for the rest of the 1960s.
- #012
Some sources list Stella Stevens's birthplace as Hot Coffee, Mississippi.
- #013
In late 1976, Stevens bought a farm in the Methow Valley near Carlton, Washington, at the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountains. She also opened an art gallery and a bakery in the nearby small town of Twisp, Washington.
- #014
Nude model, actress and adult film star Kitten Natividad worked as a maid for Stevens in the mid-1960s before entering films.
- #015
In 2005, Stella Stevens received the Reel Cowboys Silver Spur Award for her significant contributions to the Western genre.
- #016
Strange as it sounds, Stella Stevens married at 16, became a mother after six months of marriage and was divorced at 17.
- #017
In July 2004, Stella Stevens appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with Andrew Prine, Heather Lowe, Lane Bradbury, Sonny Shroyer and Jeremy Slate.
- #018
Stella Stevens was considered for the role of the legendary Ardra in the fourth-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Devil's Due (1991), which went to Marta DuBois.
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