Stella Stevens (born Estelle Caro Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress. She is the mother of actor Andrew Stevens. Stevens began her acting career in 1959 in film Say One for Me and won the Golden Globe Award for "New Star of the Year". She appeared in three Playboy Pictorials and was named Playmate of the Month for January 1960. She starred in films such as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and also appeared in several television series. Stevens also worked as film producer, director, and writer. Born Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the only child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston, an insurance salesman, and his wife, Estelle (née Caro) Eggleston, a nurse who was sometimes called by the nickname "Dovey". One of the younger Estelle Eggleston's great-grandfathers was Henry Clay Tyler, an early settler from Boston and a jeweler who gave the Yazoo City courthouse cupola its clock. When Stevens was four, her parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee. They lived on Carrington Road, near Highland Street, in the city. She attended St. Anne's Catholic School on Highland Street and Sacred Heart School on Jefferson Avenue, graduating from high school in 1955 at the Memphis Evening School at Memphis Tech High School. At age 16, she married electrician Noble Herman Stephens, on December 3, 1954, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. They moved to Memphis, where their only child, Herman Andrew Stephens, was born on June 10, 1955. The couple divorced in 1957. While studying at Memphis State University, Stevens became interested in acting and modeling.