Stella Stevens Net Worth

Stella Stevens's Quotes

• I did the best I could with the tools I had and the opportunities given me. My life was screwed up early by getting pregnant at 15 and married, then a baby at 16, then divorced at 17. But in spite of that start, I've done all right.
• It's been my heart's desire to direct since I started doing movies. I directed two films in the '70s and '80s. One was a feature-length documentary. But I've still not made my debut with a big film. I'm working on doing that now... So why has it taken me so long? Because it was hard as a "sexpot", as I was labeled in the '60s and '70s, to have people take me seriously as a producer or director. They would rather see me without my clothes on.

Interesting Facts about Stella Stevens

1. Mother of Andrew Stevens.
2. Some sources list her birthplace as Hot Coffee, Mississippi.
3. Voluptuous figure reported to be a perfect 36C-24-36 as a starlet (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
4. She was discovered modeling in the tea room of Goldsmith's Department Store in Memphis, Tennessee, where a press-agent from United Artists told her if she could get to New York while he was there, he could introduce her to the executives at 20th Century Fox.
5. Recently, she was voted one of the 100 sexiest women of the century; she was No. 27.
6. In July 2004, she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with Andrew Prine, Heather Lowe, Lane Bradbury, Sonny Shroyer and Jeremy Slate.
7. Ex-mother-in-law of Kate Jackson.
8. Nude model, actress and adult film star Kitten Natividad worked for Stevens as a maid during the mid-1960s before herself breaking into the movies.
9. In 1983, she began a long-term relationship with rock guitarist Bob Kulick; they share her home in Beverly Hills, California.
10. In 1981, she produced and directed a documentary profiling a variety of women from many walks of life, entitled The American Heroine (1979). Her film crew was comprised largely of film students from the University of Texas at Arlington. They had first worked with Stella in 1979 when she traveled to Texas to act for them, free of charge, in a short class film they were making, entitled "Lewis", directed by film student Tim Hatcher.
11. Did not want to appear in the film Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) and was nearly suspended by Paramount. Her protests hurt her relationship with the studio. She has stated several times that she refuses to watch this film.
12. Has appeared with her son Andrew Stevens in four films: Las Vegas Lady (1975), Down the Drain (1990), The Terror Within II (1991) and Illicit Dreams (1994).
13. She was considered for the role of the mythic being Ardra in the fourth season episode Star Trek: The Next Generation: Devil's Due (1991), which went to Marta DuBois.
14. In 2005, she was awarded the Reel Cowboys Silver Spur Award for her notable contribution to the Western genre.
15. Thomas Burnett Swann dedicated two of his novels to her: "Lady of the Bees" (1976) and "Will-o-the Wisp" (1976).
16. Her parents moved to Memphis, TN, when she was four. She married aspiring electrician Noble Stephens when she was only fifteen and gave birth to son Andrew a year later. After graduating from high school, she attended Memphis State College and soon divorced her husband of only two years.
17. In early 2015, she and partner Bob Kulick sold her longtime home in Beverly Hills. She is now in a long-term Alzheimer's care facility in Los Angeles and Kulick visits her there.
18. Son Andrew mostly grew up living with his mother in Beverly Hills but after the Manson murders, decided to live in Memphis with his grandparents where he went to high school and college.
19. Turned down the role of Hot Lips on the M*A*S*H* television series to focus on her film career. She has said she has since regretted the decision.
20. Strange as it sounds Stella was married at 15, became a mother at 16 and a divorcee at 17.