She was a prominent leading lady in the 1960s and ’70s, acting alongside such stars as Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Ernest Borgnine.
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“Jerry Lewis had told the bosses at Paramount he wanted to cast the most beautiful ingénue working at the studio — or something like that — and so I got the gig,” she said. “We all tried to make the characters he had created in the script special, wonderful, unique — and if you ask me, I do believe that’s why the film still holds up after all those years.”
Stevens receives a kiss from co-star Jerry Lewis before a special screening of “The Nutty Professor” in 2004 in Hollywood.
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