Stella Stevens

 Stella Stevens, born Estelle Eggleston (October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023)

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). 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. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. In addition, Stevens appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960.

Stevens also appeared in several stage productions, including a touring production of an all-female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple opposite Sandy Dennis. Stevens played the Oscar Madison character. She produced and directed two films, The Ranch (1989) and The American Heroine (1979). In 1999, she co-wrote a novel, Razzle Dazzle, about a Memphis-born singer named Johnny Gault. Stevens was married to electrician Noble Herman Stephens from 1954 until their divorce in 1957. This union produced her only child, Andrew Stevens in 1955. In 1983, Stevens began a long-term relationship with rock guitarist Bob Kulick. The two remained together until Kulick's death in 2020. Stevens died from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles on February 17, 2023, at the age of 84 years. She is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.