Stella Stevens, star of The Nutty Professor and the Wonder Woman TV pilot, has died at 84:
Stella Stevens, an actress known for her work in The Nutty Professor, Too Late Blues, and the Wonder Woman television pilot, has passed away at the age of 84. The news was broken in a statement by Stevens' son, actor-producer-director Andrew Stevens, who told The Hollywood Reporter that"she had been in hospice for quite some time with Stage 7 Alzheimer's."
"I'm a comedienne," Stevens said in a 2004 interview with Bright Lights Film Journal. "I always did sexy things for fun, and I had jokes. Like the rain sequence with Dean Martin in the Matt Helm picture The Silencers ... A comedienne, an actress. I had to consider myself an actress much more, because no one ever considered me as a serious actress."
On the television side, Stevens appeared in a critically-acclaimed episode of Bonanza, as well as episodes of The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island, and Murder, She Wrote. She appeared as Marcia in the 1975 pilot film for Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman series.
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