Inger Stevens

Infobox actor
name = Inger Stevens


birthname = Inger Stensland
birthdate = birth date|1934|10|18|mf=y
birthplace = Stockholm, Sweden
deathdate = death date and age|1970|4|30|1934|10|18|mf=n
deathplace = Hollywood, California
spouse = Ike Jones (1961-1970)
(her death)
Anthony Soglio (1955-1958)
(divorced)
goldenglobeawards = Best TV Star - Female
1964 "The Farmer's Daughter"

Inger Stevens (October 18, 1934 – April 30, 1970)cite web
url=http://www.ancestry.com
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publisher= The Generations Network
location= United States
accessdate=2008-07-25] was a Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated Swedish-American movie and TV actress.

Early life

Stevens was an insecure and often ill child. Her parents divorced while living in Sweden and when she was nine years-old she moved with her father to New York City. [ Patterson, Willian T. "The Farmer's Daugher Remembered." Xlibris Corporation, 2000. ISBN 0-7388-1192-0 ] When she was thirteen, she and her father moved to Manhattan, Kansas where she attended high school. At 16, she left home and started to work in New York City as a showgirl in low-budget performances. At the same time she took lessons at the Actors Studio.

Career

She appeared in commercials, plays and TV until she finally got her big chance in the movie "Man on Fire", with Bing Crosby. She was also romantically linked to Crosby.

Several roles in major films followed, but she had the greatest success with her leading role in the television series "The Farmer's Daughter", and also with roles in TV episodes of series like "Bonanza", "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and "The Twilight Zone". Ironically, in both of her "Twilight Zone" performances, she portrays protagonists who believe they are living women but discover they aren't alive after all: in one episode, she has died in a car accident, but doesn't realize it; in the other, she is a robot programmed to believe she is human.

After "The Farmer's Daughter" was canceled in 1966, Stevens concentrated on movies. The best known of her movie roles were "Hang 'Em High" with Clint Eastwood, "5 Card Stud" with Dean Martin and "Madigan" with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, all in 1968. Stevens was attempting to make a comeback on TV in 1970 with the detective drama series "The Most Deadly Game" when she died.

Personal life

Her first husband was her agent Anthony Soglio, to whom she was married from 1955 to 1957. From 1961 to her death she was secretly married to Ike Jones, a black American actor. She also was romantically involved with Anthony Quinn, Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza. She dated Burt Reynolds, as well, shortly before her suicide.

Death

A houseguest found her lying facedown on her kitchen floor on the morning of April 30, 1970, having overdosed on Tedral washed down with alcohol. She was cremated and her ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

Filmography

*"Man on Fire" (1957)
*"Cry Terror" (1958)
*"The Buccaneer" (1958)
*"The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (1959)
*"The New Interns" (1964)
*"The Borgia Stick" (1967, TV)
*"A Guide for the Married Man" (1967)
*"A Time for Killing" (1967)
*"Firecreek" (1968)
*"Madigan" (1968)
*"5 Card Stud" (1968)
*"Hang 'Em High" (1968)
*"House of Cards" (1968)
*"A Dream of Kings" (1969)

Television

* "Kraft Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1954)
* "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1 episode, 1955)
* "Studio One" (3 episodes, 1954-1955)
* "Crunch and Des" (1 episode, 1956)
* "Matinee Theatre" (1 episode, 1956)
* "Crusader" (1 episode, 1956)
* "Conflict" (1 episode, 1956)
* "On Trial" (1 episode, 1956)
* "The Millionaire" (1 episode, 1956)
* "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1 episode, 1957)
* "Climax!" (1 episode, 1957)
* "Playhouse 90" (2 episodes, 1956-1959)
* "Bonanza" (1 episode, 1959)
* "Sunday Showcase" (1 episode, 1959)
* "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater" (1 episode, 1960)
* "Moment of Fear" (1 episode, 1960)
* "Checkmate" (1 episode, 1960)
* "Hong Kong" (1 episode, 1960)
* "The Twilight Zone" (2 episodes, 1960)
* "The DuPont Show of the Month" (1 episode, 1961)
* "Adventures in Paradise" (1 episode, 1961)
* "The Aquanauts" (1 episode, 1961)
* "The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor" (1 episode, 1961)
* "Route 66" (2 episodes, 1960-1961)
* "Follow the Sun" (2 episodes, 1961)
* "The Eleventh Hour" (1 episode, 1962)
* "Sam Benedict" (1 episode, 1962)
* "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1 episode, 1963)
* "The Nurses" (1 episode, 1963)
* "The Dick Powell Show" (2 episodes, 1962-1963)
* "Empire" (1 episode, 1963)
* "The Farmer's Daughter" (101 episodes, 1963-1966)
* "The Most Deadly Game" (1 episode, 1970)
* "The Mask of Sheba" (1970)
* "Run, Simon, Run" (1970)

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

* Patterson, William T.: "The Farmer's Daughter Remembered", Xlibris Corporation, 2000, ISBN 0738811920.

References

External links

*imdb|0828447
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/7484/ Inger Stevens memorial fansite]
* [http://www.ingerstevens.homestead.com/ Inger Stevens Biography Information Site]
*Find A Grave|id=2187

Persondata
NAME= Stevens, Inger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Stensland, Inger
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH= October 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH= Stockholm, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH= April 30, 1970
PLACE OF DEATH= Hollywood, California