Stella Stevens Dead: Elvis Co-Star Passes Away At 84

Stella Stevens, who starred alongside Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! and Jerry Lewis successful The Nutty Professor, passed distant astatine the property of 84 successful Los Angeles connected Friday, February 17. Her son, Andrew Stevens, revealed she had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, according to Variety.

Stella Stevens passed distant astatine 84 successful Los Angeles connected Feb 17, 2023. (Laurence Cotterell/Shutterstock)

Stella besides gained fame successful the catastrophe film The Poseidon Adventure, wherever she managed to basal retired successful a assemblage of celebrated faces specified arsenic Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, and Shelley Winters. One of her much memorable, and cheeky performances, came arsenic the villain successful 1975’s Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. She ate up the relation of the Dragon Lady, a drug-dealing gangster brag who has a harem of ladies astatine her beck and call.

Born connected October 1, 1938, successful Yazoo City, Michigan, Stella got her commencement with immoderate section modeling earlier landing a Playboy centerfold successful January 1960, according to Deadline. She aboriginal regretted the sexpot reputation, per the outlet, and reportedly said, “I did the champion I could with the tools I had and the opportunities fixed me. I was a divorced ma with a toddler by the clip I was 17. And Playboy did arsenic overmuch harm arsenic it helped. But successful spite of that unsmooth start, I did OK.”

Elvis Presley and Stella Stevens starred successful ‘Girl!Girl!Girls!’ successful 1962. (Everett)

After she was fixed a surface trial by 20th Century Fox, Stella soon recovered herself adjacent to specified stars arsenic Elvis successful 1962’s Girls! Girls! Girls!, Dean Martin in How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, Bobby Darin in Too Late Blues, and Glenn Ford successful The Courtship of Eddie’s Father. She adjacent won a Golden Globe arsenic Most Promising Newcomer for 1959’s Say One for Me, which starred Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.

Stella Stevens got her commencement arsenic a Playboy centerfold successful 1960. (Kobal/Shutterstock)

Later connected successful the 80s, Stella recovered a caller legion of fans with her relation connected the short-lived, primetime soap opera Flamingo Road, as good arsenic recurring parts on General Hospital. and Santa Barbara. She besides sat successful the director’s seat for 1979’s The American Heroine and 1989’s The Ranch.

Along with her lad Andrew, Stella is survived by 3 grandchildren. RIP Stella.

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