Biography

The early film career of Stella Stevens could be said to mirror that of Marilyn Monroe. She began by playing a succession of sensuous, blond glamour girls, from naïve virgins and funny coquettes to precocious or briny-tongued floozies. Her early maturity on screen may have reflected her own turbulent private life: she was married at 15, had a child at 16 and was divorced a year later. At 21, Stella, having a child to support and no money, posed for a celebrated Playboy centerfold (she was Playmate of the Month for January 1960) which did her subsequent movie career no harm whatever. Voted by Playboy as among the 100 sexiest women of the 20th Century, she then also became one of the most photographed stars of the 60s. The voluptuous, blue-eyed Stella was born Estelle Caro Eggleston to one of the oldest families in Yazoo, Mississippi. A myth, which had her hailing from the quaintly named town of Hot Coffee was purely an invention by Hollywood publicists. Her father, Thomas Ellett, was a

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