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. She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960.īorn Estelle Eggleston on October 1, 1938, in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she was the only child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston, an insurance salesman, and his wife, Estelle ( née Caro) Eggleston, a nurse, sometimes called by the nickname 'Dovey'. Stevens has also worked as a film producer, director, and writer. In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston October 1, 1938) is an American former actress.

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