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Like many Warners contract players, Stevens was kept busy guest-starring on their regular TV shows such as The Ann Sothern Show, Maverick, Tenderfoot, 77 Sunset Strip and Cheyenne. In May 1959, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. Stevens made another film with Damon, The Party Crashers (1958), before Paramount dropped her. Jerry Lewis saw her in Dragstrip Riot (1958), and cast her as his love interest in his 1958 production of Rock-A-Bye Baby, giving Stevens her first big break. In December 1957 Stevens signed a seven-year contract with Paramount starting at $600 a week going up to $1,500 a week. She also was in Eighteen and Anxious (1957) and an episode of The Bob Cummings Show ("Bob Goes Hillbilly"). Her first notable film role was in Young and Dangerous (1957) with Mark Damon, a low budget teen movie.
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She enrolled at The Georgia Massey Professional School in the San Fernando Valley, sang professionally, and appeared in local repertory theater. When she was 16, she replaced the alto in a singing group, The Three Debs. Stevens moved to Los Angeles with her father in 1953. Ĭoming 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. The event traumatized Stevens, and she was sent to live with family friends in Boonville, Missouri. Actor John Megna was her half-brother.Īt the age of 12, she witnessed a murder while waiting at a bus stop in Brooklyn. Her parents divorced and she lived with her grandparents and attended Catholic boarding schools. She adopted her father's stage name of Stevens as her own. Stevens is of Italian, Irish, German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent. 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. Jones, which she also wrote and produced, based partly on elements of her own childhood. In 2009, Stevens made her directorial debut with the feature film Saving Grace B. Stevens' later film roles include in the comedy Tapeheads (1988) and the drama Love Is All There Is (1996). Stevens continued to appear in film and television throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as well as performing as a musical nightclub act. She garnered concurrent musical success when her single " Sixteen Reasons" became a radio hit, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1960.
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Stevens gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of "Cricket" Blake on the network television series Hawaiian Eye, beginning in 1959. She subsequently had a supporting role in the musical comedy Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) opposite Jerry Lewis, followed by the drama film The Party Crashers (also 1958) opposite Frances Farmer. She began her career in 1957, making her feature film debut in Young and Dangerous, before releasing her debut album, Concetta, the following year. In 1953, at age 15, Stevens relocated with her father to Los Angeles, California. Born in Brooklyn, New York City to musician parents, Stevens was raised there until age 12, when she was sent to live with family friends in rural Missouri after she witnessed a murder in the city. Connie Stevens (born Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingolia August 8, 1938) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and singer.