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.
Ex-mother-in-law of Kate Jackson.
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.
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.
Longtime partner of guitarist Bob Kulick.
Mother of Andrew Stevens.
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.
Playboy Playmate of the Month January 1960. Also appeared in Playboy in 1965 and 1968.
Recently she was voted one of the 100 sexiest women of the century; she was number 27.
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.
Some sources list her birthplace as Hot Coffee, Mississippi.
Voluptuous figure reported to be a perfect 36C-24-36 as a starlet. (Source: celebrity Sleuth magazine).