Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about CONNIE STEVENS!
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: connie Stevens is an actress, director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and singer . she played the role of “Cricket” Blake in the television series Hawaiian Eye . her mother was of half her parents divorced and she lived with grandparents and attended Catholic boarding schools . at the age of 12, she witnessed a murder in Brooklyn and was sent to live with family friends in boonville, Missouri . Stevens moved to Stevens’ big break came when Jerry Lewis saw her in the latter and recommended her for Rock-A-Bye Baby . in December 1957 she signed a seven-year contract with Paramount starting at $600 a week Stevens was cast as Cricket Blake in the detective series Hawaiian Eye from 1959 to 1963 . she recorded the hit novelty song “Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)” (1959) a duet with one she had hit singles as a solo artist with “Sixteen Reasons” (1960) and a minor #71 hit . she starred in three films for the studio, all opposite Troy Donahue: Par Stevens later starred as Wendy Conway in the television sitcom Wendy and Me . she had three and a half years left on her contract with Warners . “i’ve done the teenage epics… and want to she signed a new contract with Warners to make one film a year for six years . Stevens was reunited with Lewis in Way… Way Out (1966) she made Mister Jerico (1970) for British Stevens turned down the Valerie Perrine role in Lenny because of its nudity . she had the lead in a feature Scorchy (1974) in the 1970s, Stevens started singing the Ace I she was seen numerous times on the Bob Hope USO specials, including his Christmas Show from the Persian Gulf (1988) in 1988 . Stevens said “i still want to make movies with Marlon Brando. But first I “I’m a big star all over the world except in Hollywood,” he says . “i created something that people still love. I invented Cricket. Cricket. ” “I play (nightclubs in) Japan and Hong half the time, I said whatever I wanted. I was everybody’s daughter . i was every boy’s fantasy girlfriend . girls wanted to be like me. 17 people work for me. that’s why i’m a big business, with 17 people working for me . i may not be the richest woman in the world, but i do okay . but Hollywood Stevens had a regular role on the sitcom Starting from Scratch (1988) the show only lasted one season . she wrote and directed the documentary A Healing (1997) . Among her charitable works, she founded the Windfeather project to award scholarships to Native Americans . Stevens developed her own cosmetic skin care product line, Forever Spring . in the 1990s opened the Connie Stevens Garden Stevens is the mother of actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher . she was married twice during her twenties: her first husband was actor James Stacy from 1963 until their 1966 divorce . her second