She is seldom remembered and when she is, the memory is defined by the men surrounding her at the time.

Always keeping visible in the public eye, she appeared readily as herself on such fun-oriented TV game and variety programs as Truth or Consequences, Your First Impression, You Don’t Say, What’s My Line? Inger Stevens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Per Gustaf and Lisbet Stensland. Patterson claims Inger purposely “went along with the media and agreed to the many wild stories they printed” in order to help promote Man on Fire.In the meantime, the Paramount publicity train worked overtime promoting their new film star. I was really just plain scared.”With no public funeral services held, according to her wishes, mourners at her May 4 memorial service included director Leo Penn, and actors Peter Falk, Beau Bridges, Jack Warden, France Nuyen, Marge Redmond and Shelley Morrison, in addition to several family members. Movie critic Leonard Maltin singled out her performance in his annual Movie and Video Guide. Helmed by director/actor Don Taylor, who was simultaneously directing Inger on The Farmer’s Daughter, the documentary began filming in September 1964 and aired in February of 1965. Help us build our profile of Inger Stevens and Ike Jones! Their tragedy and stillness celebrated, as the suffering of women continues to be fetishized in society and in entertainment. They never attended premieres or public functions together and denied all persistent rumors of marriage throughout the decade. Los Angeles County Coroner Dr. What should have been an exciting experience turned into an unpleasant, shiver-inducing ordeal that took an exhausting eleven hours, and over a three-consecutive-night period, to complete.Chicago’s “Greektown” is celebrated in the ethnic drama A Dream of Kings (1969), a film that reunited Inger with old Buccaneer flame Anthony Quinn. Moreover, the blonde bouffant beauty became the pitchwoman for Clairol’s hair products on the show. There she met her mother’s “second family,” which included two stepsiblings. Many of these appearances were prompted by her upcoming starring role in a prime time series.The Farmer’s Daughter was thinly based on the disarming 1947 RKO film starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten, but completely reworked to suit Inger’s gentler comedic instincts. “When the cruise is finished,” she lamented, “the romance may linger, but the relationship seems to shift and change. COPYRIGHT 2020 By TheLifeandTimesofHollywood.com Pronounced dead at Hollywood Hospital, Inger’s cause of death was listed as “acute barbiturate intoxication.” For all intents and purposes, her death appeared to be a suicide but William Patterson’s book does offer substitute theories.Following her passing, it came out in the tabloids that Inger had been secretly married for nearly a decade to African-American Ike Jones (they wed in Tijuana, Mexico on November 18, 1961). And there you are, left alone.” In a chapter dedicated to her in Kirk Crivello’s book “Fallen Angels”, Inger is quoted as saying, “Once I felt that I was one person at home and the minute I stepped out the door I had to be somebody else. When she was nine, her mother abandoned the family and her father moved to the United States, leaving Inger and her sister in the custody first of the family maid and then with an aunt in Lidingö, near Stockholm. The last original episode aired on April 22, 1966, while reruns continued until September.As a famous TV star, Inger was now in the position to raise awareness for her various humanitarian causes. In The Hitchhiker, one of the most famous in the series’ history, she played Nan Adams, a young woman trying to cheat death, as personified by the hitchhiker stalking her throughout the episode. At the time, Mr. Stensland was studying on a Fulbright scholarship at Harvard, but he later remarried and moved to Manhattan, Kansas.Stevens was unhappy and ran away from home at 16. Los Angeles County Coroner Dr. As a child, she was often ill. Oh, Women! Was she another tragic Hollywood statistic? Inger’s most intense scenes involve her kidnapping and subsequent rape by three members of Segal’s former gang and the subsequent catatonic shock in its aftermath. DeMille’s trademark touches here are obvious with unshakeable strains of Ten Commandments throughout, from its grand mounting and Technicolor photography to its deferential casting and Elmer Bernstein’s score. You know, I’m rather fortunate to be here at all.” Let’s grant her that much.Sorcha McCrory is the Managing Editor at Scandinavia Standard. (as a guest panelist replacing Arlene Francis), Virginia Graham’s Girl Talk, The Today Show, The Tonight Show and The Merv Griffin Show.

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