The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure star Stella Stevens passed away on Friday after a protracted battle with Alzheimer’s disease, her son told Deadline. Age-wise, she was 84.

Stevens started her modeling career and was the Playboy centerfold in January 1960. She was reportedly found in her hometown of Memphis and invited to 20th Century Fox for a screen test before signing on with Paramount and eventually Columbia.

She starred in Li’l Abner the same year she played Say One for Me, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.

Stevens co-starred in movies with some of Hollywood’s most renowned leading men throughout the 1960s, including Dean Martin in How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, Bobby Darin in Girls! Girls! Girls!, and Elvis Presley in John Cassavetes’ Too Late Blues.

Most notably, she appeared in The Nutty Professor (1963), a movie directed by Jerry Lewis and chosen by the Library of Congress in 2004 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Stella Stevens Net-Worth

Stella Stevens, an American actress who works in cinema, television, and theater, has a $10 million fortune. She was a well-known screen siren in the early 1960s. She was born Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1938, in Yazoo City, Mississippi, United States. Stevens originally achieved success in the modeling industry thanks to her alluring appearance.

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