#Connie Stevens

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Connie Stevens with Dean Jones, Virginia Gregg, and Parley Baer in Two on a Guillotine (1965)

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Connie Stevens in The Sex Symbol (1974).

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Costume worn by Juliet Prowse as Lili in the film "G.I. Blues" alongside Elvis Presley, 1960

The light musical comedy C.I. Blues was the first film Elvis Presley starred in after returning from military service in Germany early in 1960. Edith Head constructed this beaded dance costume for Presley's costar, South African dancer Juliet Prowse, over a leotard of flesh-colored stretch fabric with a "car wash" multi-panel long skirt. When Prowse performed, the materials used allowed the skirt to become part of the dance itself. It was common for film costumes to be reused by film studios-this one was worn again in 1971 by Connie Stevens in The Grissom Cang.

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Happy birthday, Connie Stevens

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Recently watched: low-brow 1976 grindhouse crime thriller Scorchy. IMDb’s ultra-concise plot summary: “Connie Stevens is Jackie "Scorchy" Parker, the hottest undercover agent the Feds have ever known. She makes fast friends - and deadly enemies.” I’d always yearned to see this one, but found Scorchy somehow not quite as juicy or fun as I hoped, especially considering its outrageous tagline (“She's Killed a Man, Been Shot At And Made Love Twice Already This Evening... And The Evening Isn't Over Yet!”). The storyline sees plucky Stevens orchestrating an elaborate undercover operation to nab a heroin-smuggling drug baron. There are shoot-outs and car chases - AND helicopter and speedboat chases! (Considering Scorchy’s director Howard Avedis mainly focused on sexploitation fare like The Teacher (1974) and Dr Minx (1975), he shows a real flair for action sequences). Scorchy frequently suggests a 1970s Blaxploitation flick, but with honkies in the central roles. Like, it feels like it should be Pam Grier playing Jackie, but it’s Connie Stevens. (And Grier’s superior 1975 film Friday Foster hits some of the same trashy sweet spots as Scorchy). Anyway, the then 38-year-old Stevens seizes the opportunity to distance herself from her ingenue days as Cricket Blake in TV’s Hawaiian Eye. There are glimpses of bare breasts, a gratuitous skinny-dipping scene and raunchy dialogue delivered in Stevens’ whispery babydoll voice (in the context of Scorchy, 1970s women’s liberation equals Jackie exclaiming about getting laid. In one exchange, she teases her boss Chief Frank O’Brien with “You look tense. You need a blowjob!” Perhaps understandably, he responds, “You’re a fruitcake, you bitch!”). I know the character is based on Stevens’ sex kitten contemporary Joey Heatherton, but with her frosted pale lipstick and feathered blow-dried hair, in her close-ups Stevens frequently resembles Catherine O’Hara as Lola Heatherton in SCTV. You also get the backdrop of Seattle in the 1970s AND hunky young male starlet Greg Evigan before B J and The Bear. Watch Scorchy here.

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Connie Stevens

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Connie Stevens

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Bill Bixby and Connie Stevens in an episode of "Love, American Style" (1969)

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77 Sunset Strip (1958-1964) Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

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Happy Birthday Connie Stevens 🎂

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Cesar Romero, Dean Jones, and Connie Stevens in Two on a Guillotine (1965)

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Connie Stevens in Playmates (1972).

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Connie Stevens

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Connie Stevens

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Alan Alda, Connie Stevens, Barbara Feldon, and Doug McClure in Theodore J. Flicker‘s PLAYMATES (1972)