Inger Stevens

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Inger Stevens
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Stevens in 1967
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Ingrid Stensland

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Stockholm, Sweden
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Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textActress
Years active1954–1970
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AwardsBest TV Star (TV Guide) – Female
1964 The Farmer's Daughter

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Inger Stevens (born Ingrid Stensland; October 18, 1934 – April 30, 1970)[1] was a Swedish-born American film, stage, and Golden Globe–winning television actress.[2]

Early life

Inger Stevens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the eldest child of Per Gustaf[3] and Lisbet Stensland.[4][5][self-published source] When she was six years old, her mother abandoned the family, taking her youngest son Peter with her. Soon after, Stevens's father moved to the United States, leaving Stevens and her brother Ola in the custody of the family maid and then later with an aunt in Lidingö,[6] an island near Stockholm.[7] In 1944, Stevens and her brother moved to the United States and lived with their father and his new American wife in New York City, where her father was completing his PhD in education at Columbia University. At age 13, Stevens moved with her family to Manhattan, Kansas, where her father taught at Kansas State University. Stevens attended Manhattan High School.[4]

At 15, Stevens fled to Kansas City, where she worked in burlesque shows.[8] At 18, she returned to New York City, where she worked as a chorus girl and in the Garment District while taking classes at the Actors Studio.[7][9]

Career

Stevens appeared on television series, in commercials, and in plays until she received her big break in the film Man on Fire (1957), starring Bing Crosby.

Stevens in The Twilight Zone episode, "The Hitch-Hiker" (1960)

Starring roles in major films followed, including opposite James Mason and Rod Steiger in Cry Terror! (1958) and opposite Harry Belafonte in 1959's The World, the Flesh and the Devil, but she achieved her greatest success in the television series The Farmer's Daughter (1963–1966) with William Windom. Previously, Stevens had appeared in episodes of Bonanza, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Eleventh Hour, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, Sam Benedict, The Aquanauts, and The Twilight Zone.

Following the cancellation of The Farmer's Daughter in 1966, Stevens appeared in several high-profile films in quick succession, including: A Guide for the Married Man (1967), Firecreek, Hang 'Em High, 5 Card Stud, and Madigan (all released in 1968). Her final theatrical film was A Dream of Kings (1969) opposite Anthony Quinn. Her final project was the television film, Run, Simon, Run (1970) with Burt Reynolds. At the time of her death, Stevens was attempting to revive her television career with the detective drama series The Most Deadly Game.[citation needed]

Personal life

Stevens's first husband was her agent, Anthony Soglio,[10] to whom she was married from 1955 to 1957.

In January 1966, she was appointed to the advisory board of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute by California governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown. She also was named chairman of the California Council for Retarded Children. Her aunt was Karin Stensland Junker, author of The Child in the Glass Ball.[11][12]

After Stevens's death, Ike Jones, the first black graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, alleged that he had secretly married Stevens in Mexico in 1961.[13][14] Some doubted Jones's claim because of the lack of a marriage license, the maintenance of separate homes, and the filing of tax documents as single people.[15] However, when Stevens' estate was being settled, her brother, Carl O. Stensland, confirmed in court that Stevens had hidden her marriage to Jones "out of fear for her career."[16] Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner A. Edward Nichols ruled in Jones's favor[17] and named him administrator of her estate.[18] A photograph exists of the two attending a banquet together in 1968.[6]

Death

On the morning of April 30, 1970, Stevens's roommate and companion Lola McNally found Stevens on the kitchen floor of her Hollywood Hills home. According to McNally, Stevens opened her eyes, lifted her head, and tried to speak, but was unable to utter any sound. McNally told police that she had spoken to Stevens the previous night and had seen no signs of trouble. Stevens died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. On arrival, medics removed a small bandage from her chin that revealed a small amount of fresh blood oozing from a cut that appeared to have been a few hours old. Los Angeles County coroner Dr. Thomas Noguchi attributed Stevens's death to "acute barbiturate poisoning"[19][20] and the death was eventually ruled a suicide.

Filmography

Film

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Stevens appeared in two episodes of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone (image at his home in 1960).

Television

Broadway credits

Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category Series
1958 Nominated Laurel Awards Top New Female Personality —
1968 Nominated Best Female Comedy Performance A Guide for the Married Man
1963 Won Golden Globe Best TV Star – Female The Farmer's Daughter
1962 Nominated Emmy Award Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role The Dick Powell Show
1964 Nominated Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead) The Farmer's Daughter

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Inger S Stevens". California Death Index, 1940–1997. Retrieved July 1, 2011 – via Ancestry.com. Name: Inger S Stevens; Social Security #: 511200818; Sex: Female; Birth Date: 18 Oct 1934; Birthplace: Sweden; Death Date: 30 Apr 1970; Death Place: Los Angeles
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Inger Stevens". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on October 23, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Obits | Per Stensland". The Newtown Bee. August 14, 1998. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pilato, Herbie J. (2014). Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door: Television's Iconic Women from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-58979-970-7. Retrieved June 17, 2017 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Patterson, William T. (September 30, 2017). The Farmer's Daughter Remembered: The Biography of Actress Inger Stevens. Xlibris. ISBN 978-0-7388-1192-5.[self-published source]
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lem, Jerry. "A Short Biography". The Inger Stevens Memorial Site. Archived from the original on April 6, 2018.[unreliable source?]
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brumburgh, Gary. "Inger Stevens: Wounded Butterfly". Classic Images. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Silverman (February 14, 2015). "TECH 1: The Mysterious Death of Inger Stevens". tech1tech1.blogspot.com.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McOmish, Sorcha McCrory, Freya (August 10, 2023). "What Ever Happened to Inger Stevens?". Scandinavia Standard. Retrieved March 28, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Petrucelli, Alan W. (September 29, 2009). Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-14049-9 – via Google Books.
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  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Inger and the Children". www.ingerstevens.org. Archived from the original on October 4, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ike Jones dies at 84; pioneering African American film producer". Los Angeles Times. October 11, 2014.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robinson, Louie (May 21, 1970). "Death of Actress Inger Stevens". Jet. p. 56 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Austin, John (1994). "Inger Stevens: Accident .. Suicide .. Or ...?". Hollywood's Babylon Women. S.P.I. Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-56171-288-5. Retrieved July 1, 2011 – via Internet Archive.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Inger's Brother Backs Ike Jones' Claim on Estate". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. August 13, 1970. p. 22 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rule Ex-Actor Mate Of Actress, She Took Own Life". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. August 20, 1970. p. 23. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."April 30th, 1970 and Aftermath". ingerstevens.org. Archived from the original on August 10, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crivello, Kirk (September 30, 1988). Fallen Angels: The Lives and Untimely Deaths of Fourteen Hollywood Beauties. Little, Brown Book Group Limited. ISBN 978-0-7088-4836-4 – via Google Books.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Frasier, David K. (March 8, 2005). Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0807-5 – via Google Books.
  21. ^ Inger Stevens at the Internet Broadway DatabaseTemplate:Edit at Wikidata

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