Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on August 8th, 1938 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 85, Connie Stevens biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Connie Stevens (born Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingoglia; August 8, 1938) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and singer.
She played the role of "Cricket" Blake in the television series Hawaiian Eye.
Early life
Stevens was born Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingolia in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, United States, the daughter of musician Peter Ingolia (known as Teddy Stevens) and singer Eleanor McGinley. Stevens is of Italian, Irish, German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent. She adopted her father's stage name of Stevens as her own. Her parents divorced and she lived with her grandparents and attended Catholic boarding schools. Actor John Megna was her half-brother.
At the age of 12, she witnessed a murder while waiting at a bus stop in Brooklyn. The event traumatized Stevens, and she was sent to live with family friends in Boonville, Missouri.
Coming from a musical family, Stevens joined the singing group called The Fourmost with Tony Butala, who went on to fame as founder of The Lettermen. Stevens moved to Los Angeles with her father in 1953.
Personal life
Stevens dated actor Glenn Ford in the early 1960s.
Stevens was married twice during her twenties: her first husband was actor James Stacy from 1963 until their 1966 divorce, and her second husband was singer Eddie Fisher from 1967 until their 1969 divorce. She is the mother of actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, and the former stepmother of Todd Fisher and late actress Carrie Fisher.
Career
Mark Damon's first film appearance was in Young and Dangerous (1957), a low budget teen film. She appeared in Eighteen and Anxious (1957), as well as an episode of The Bob Cummings Show ("Bob Goes Hillbilly"). Stevens joined Paramount in December 1957 and increased to $1,500 a week.
Jerry Lewis appeared in Dragstrip Riot (1958), casting her as his love interest in his 1958 film of Rock-A-Bye Baby, giving Stevens her first big break.
Before Paramount dropped her, Stevens made another film with Damon, The Party Crashers (1958).
She began a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. in May 1959, starting at $300 per week. Stevens, like many Warners employees, was kept busy on their regular television shows, such as The Ann Sothern Show, Maverick, Tenderfoot, 77 Sunset Strip, and Cheyenne.
During her appearance as Cricket Blake in the classic television detective series Hawaiian Eye from 1959 to 1963, she made her well-known; her principal costar was Robert Conrad.
She appeared (uncredited) in "The Dresden Doll," Episode 15 of 77 Sunset Strip's season 3 as her character from Hawaiian Eye, Cricket Blake, and the first televised on December 23, 1960.
Stevens recalled that when on the set of Hawaiian Eye, she was informed she had received a telephone call from Elvis Presley. "She didn't believe it," she said, "it was Elvis, who invited her to a dance and promised to come to her house and pick her up personally."
Concetta (1958), Stevens' first album, was titled Concetta (1958). "Blame It on My Youth" (music by Oscar Levant and lyrics by Edward Heyman), "Looking for a Boy" (music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin), and "Spring Is Here" (music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart) had minor hits, including minor hits) (music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart).
She appeared in "Two Tickets to Ten Strike" (1959), a duet with Edd Byrnes, one of the program's main stars, after performing several appearances on the Warner Bros. hit television series "Two Tickets to Ten Strike" (1959). On ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, she and Byrnes appeared together.
With "Sixteen Reasons" (1960), her first hit, (#9 in the United Kingdom), and a minor #71 hit "Too Young to Go Steady" (1960) (music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Harold Adamson), she had hit singles as a solo artist. "Apollo" was one of the other single launches. "Why'd You Want Me Cry?" "Something Beautiful," "Now That You Know" (originally performed by The Delfonics) and "Keep Growing Strong" (which was remade by The Stylistics under the heading "Betcha by Golly, Wow))" ("Mr. Songwriter")
Stevens' success on the small screen and as a film actress compelled Warner Bros. to try her in films. Susan Slade (1962), a teenage romantic comedy, appeared in three films for the studio, all opposite Troy Donahue: Parrish (1961), as a rural girl; and Palm Springs Weekend (1963), a teen romantic comedy. Warner Bros. suspended her for a short time in 1962 for refusing to go on a publicity tour. On stage in Kansas, she appeared in Wizard of Oz.
When Stevens' stint on Temple Houston and The Red Skelton Exhibition ended, he appeared on Temple Houston and The Red Skelton Show. She appeared in the horror film Two on a Guillotine (1965), for Warners.
Stevens appeared in Wendy Conway (1964–1965) with George Burns, who also produced the program with Warner Bros., and played an older man who watched Wendy's adventures upstairs on television in his apartment. She had a piece of the show and had three and a half years to go on with Warners, and she had three and a half years remaining on her deal. "I've done the teenage epics... and want to go back to Virginia Woolf or Any Wednesday," she said. I want to be a big celebrity, but first and foremost badly will I be able to get there. Can't I just be gifted and work hard, and be happily married?"
Stevens was the youth star in Never Too Late (1965), Warner Bros.'s debut.
At Carousel Theatre, California, she revived her stage appearance of Wizard of Oz, which was followed by Any Wednesday in Anaheim, California. Stevens was reunited with Lewis in Way... Way Out (1966).
Stevens appeared in The Star-Spangled Girl, directed by Neil Simon, in 1966. Stevens loved appearing in television series such as ABC Stage 67, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and Love, American Style, Stevens loved performing live, but she began appearing regularly in Las Vegas nightclubs in 1968, where her performances were well received by both audiences and entertainment critics.
Stevens appeared in The Littlest Angel, a 1969 television film. Mister Jerico (1970) appeared on British television and appeared in The Grissom Gang (1971).
Stevens appeared in the television films Call Her Mother (1972), Playmates (1972), Every Man Needs One (1972), and The Sex Symbol (1974).
She turned down the Valerie Perrine role in Lenny due to the country's nudity.
In a Scorchy film (1976), she took the lead.
Stevens began performing the Ace Is the Place theme song on Ace Hardware TV commercials in Southern California in the 1970s, and he appeared on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast a few times.
Stevens appeared in a first-season episode of The Muppet Show in 1977.
She was in Love's Savage Fury (1979), Murder Can Hurt You! (1980), Scruples (1980), Aloha Paradise, Side Show (1981), Harry's Battles (1981), and Grease 2 (1982).
Stevens appeared on Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, Detective in the House, Murder, She Wrote, and Tales from the Darkside.
She appeared in Rowdies (1986), Back to the Beach (1987), Tapeheads (1988), and Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988).
She appeared on the Bob Hope USO specials, including his Christmas Show from the Persian Gulf (1988).
Stevens wrote: "I still want to make films with Marlon Brando in 1988." But first, I've got to get hot. That's what I'm trying to do - get hot. I'm still waiting for the big part. I haven't reached my high point yet."
She elaborated:
Stevens appeared on Scratch (1988) starting from Scratch (1988). "TV is not my favorite medium," she said at the time; the job is demanding; you don't have any hobbies; and I feel like I've already been a champion in it; but the company's economics is the real thing; you need energy to get hot. "I'm using this to lure me into movies." The program only lasted for one season.
Ellen, Love Is, Baywatch, Clueless, James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997), Returning Mickey Stern, Titus, Wild Card, The Wedding Album
Stevens produced, edited, and directed A Healing, a 1997 film about Red Cross nurses who served during the Vietnam War. It received the title of Best Film at the Santa Clarita International Film Festival the following year. Saving Grace B. Jones, a thriller starring Steven B. Jones, was also produced and directed by her in 2009; it was shot in Boonville and is based on true events that Steven's encountered as an infant.
She appeared in Double Duty (2009), Just Before I Go (2014), and Search Engines (2016), co-starring Juliely Fisher.