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Actress Stella Stevens, who appeared in a string of flicks within the Sixties and ’70s together with “The Nutty Professor” and “The Poseidon Journey,” died Friday from Alzheimer’s illness at 84, mentioned her son, actor and producer Andrew Stevens.
She “had been in hospice for fairly a while with stage seven Alzheimer’s,” her son advised CNN.
“Alzheimer’s is an insidious illness which affected not solely my mom, however my grandmother and nice aunt. Hopefully my mom’s work shall be remembered for her collaborations with among the leisure business’s largest icons,” Andrew Stevens mentioned.
His mom had greater than 200 film and TV roles, based on an obituary from the Golden Globes, which awarded her New Star of the 12 months in 1960 after her debut in “Say One for Me” with Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.
Her most well-known roles got here in 1963’s “The Nutty Professor” with Jerry Lewis and 1972’s “The Poseidon Journey,” through which she was promoted as a part of an “all-star forged” headed by Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine.
Her different movies included “Women! Women! Women!” with Elvis Presley. She adopted her movie profession with many TV roles in “Police Story,” “Love Boat,” “Flamingo Highway” and others.
Stella Stevens is survived by her solely son and three grownup grandchildren.
Correction: An earlier model of this story incorrectly reported the date of Stevens’ loss of life.
