STELLA STEVENS
Girls! Girls! Girls!
November, 21 1962
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Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westminster, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin, and sweet Laurel.
Stella Stevens plays Robin in Girls! Girls! Girls! [a night club singer "hung up" on Elvis]. Along the way she sings (partial) "Never Let Me Go", "The Nearness of You", and "Baby, Baby, Baby".CAST:
Elvis Presley...Ross Carpenter
Stella Stevens...Robin Gantner
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*Hal Blaine ...Drummer lounge band
*Jack Nitzsche...Piano player in lounge band
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Red West... Bongos + crewman tuna boat
Lance LeGault...Bass player nightclub*Although Stella Stevens' film career began in 1959 with a bit part in Say One For Me with Bing Crosby, she made a bold career move (for that time) by posing nude for Playboy in the January 1960 issue. This coincided with an excellent movie break in the film Li'l Abner, and Stella's career was off and running.~~~
USA 21 November 1962
Brazil 24 December 1962
France 16 January 1963
Denmark 4 February 1963
Sweden 18 February 1963
Italy 8 March 1963
Finland 22 March 1963
Hong Kong 11 April 1963
West Germany 12 April 1963
Japan 27 April 1963
Spain 18 May 1964
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aka:
Girls! Girls! Girls! Denmark / West Germany
A Girl in Every Port USA (working title)
Cento ragazze e un marinaio Italy
Chicas, chicas, chicas Spain
Des filles, encore des filles Canada (French title)
Des filles... encore des filles France
Garotas! Garotas! E Mais Garotas! Brazil
Gumbo Ya-Ya USA (working title)
Kizlar arasinda Turkey (Turkish title)
Rantevou me hilia koritsia Greece
Tyttöjä! Tyttöjä! Tyttöjä! Finland
Welcome Aboard USA (working title)
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Although Stella Stevens' film career began in 1959 with a bit part in Say One For Me with Bing Crosby,  she made a bold career move (for that time) by posing nude for Playboy in the January 1960 issue. This coincided with an excellent movie break in the film Li'l Abner, and Stella's career was off and running. About the Playboy appearances, she later said, "After that, I starred in every one of my movies. I'll say one thing -- it got me a lot of obscene mail. But it got me a lot of male fans, too, loyal fans. They've stuck with me through the years, through all the movies." |
One of the first she made after this was Girls! Girls! Girls!, in which she played Robin, a night club singer "hung up" on Elvis. Along the way she sings (parts of) "Never Let Me Go", "The Nearness of You", and "Baby, Baby, Baby". |  |
 | She made a bigger impression the next year as Miss Purty in The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis. "At last I've established a position," she said. "That's the first step. Most of all, I want to be singled out." The critics certainly singled her out in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, that same year. Opposite Glenn Ford, she put in a fine perfomance as Dollye Dailey. As Ian and Elizabeth Cameron wrote in Dames, "Stella Stevens is adept at playing the wide-eyed innocents who leave behind them a trail of confusion, consternation, or embarrassment. She did this particularly well in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father." Her starring roles in feature films continued through the sixties, playing opposite Dean Martin in the first Matt Helm vehicle, The Silencers, and with Rosalind Russell in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows in 1968. |
The seventies started off pretty good with Stella in one of her finest performances as the kind-hearted prostitute opposite Jason Robards in Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue. She was a prostitute once again in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure in 1971. The first of the Irwin Allen all-star disaster films, it was a huge hit at the box office, but it was about the last we would see of Stella in "major motion pictures". Since then, she seems to have made about a dozen "B" movies a year (and TV-movies). Enough, at least to warrant a "Stella Week" on the USA Network about twice a year... (if I were running things!) Although not necessarily tops with the critics, these kinds of films provide steady work. (Take a look at her entry on the IMDB if you doubt it!) She had expressed a desire to direct as early as 1964, but she's only directed two so far (American Heroine and The Ranch) However, she certainly handed the directing bug down to her son. Andrew Stevens has worn the hat of director, producer, screenwriter, as well as actor, in a steady stream of films, mostly the same type of low-budget action / adventure films. More than a few feature mom in a prominent role. (Andrew had appeared in mom's movie, The Ranch also!) |
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