Trivia

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.

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 where Kulick visited her until his death from heart disease on May 28th, 2020.

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.

Recently, she was voted one of the 100 sexiest women of the century; she was No. 27.

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.

Voluptuous figure reported to be a perfect 36C-24-36 as a starlet (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

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.

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.

Stella Stevens is the only leading lady to have starred with both Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in films after their professional breakup.

Has appeared with her son Andrew Stevens in four films: Las Vegas Lady (1975), Down the Drain (1990), The Terror Within II (1990) and Illicit Dreams (1994).

Ex-mother-in-law of Kate Jackson.

Some sources list her birthplace as Hot Coffee, Mississippi.

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.

In 1983, she began a long-term relationship with rock guitarist Bob Kulick; they share her home in Beverly Hills, California.

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.

Mother of Andrew Stevens.

Thomas Burnett Swann dedicated two of his novels to her: "Lady of the Bees" (1976) and "Will-o-the Wisp" (1976).

She signed her first contract in 1959 at age 20 with 20th Century Fox. She was dropped after six months and the same year signed with Paramount to a seven year contract. After roles previously promised to her (Harlow, The Carpetbaggers, Sylvia) were given to fellow studio star Carroll Baker, she requested an early release and moved to Columbia Pictures for the remainder of the 1960s.

In late 1976, Stevens purchased a ranch in Methow Valley near Carlton, Washington on the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountains. She also opened an art gallery and bakery in the nearby small town of Twisp, Washington.

In 1983, Stevens began a long-term relationship with rock guitarist Bob Kulick. A little over a year later, he moved into Stevens' Beverly Hills home. In March 2016, Kulick and Stevens sold her longtime Beverly Hills home, and she moved to a long-term Alzheimer's care facility in Los Angeles. Kulick often visited her there until his death on May 28, 2020.

Strange as it sounds, Stella was married at 16, became a mother after 6 months of marriage, and a divorcee at 17.

In 2005, she was awarded the Reel Cowboys Silver Spur Award for her notable contribution to the Western genre.

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.

When announcing his mother's death to the public, Andrew Stevens merely stated, "Thanks to her collaborations with icons of the time, hopefully she will be remembered.".

She was considered for the role of the mythic being Ardra in the fourth season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Devil's Due (1991), which went to Marta DuBois.