Connie Stevens - Still With Us

I always mixed her up with Stella Stevens

As a gayling, I was upset on her behalf that she had to share ACE Hardware commercials with a fat old guy.

Never liked her proto-mullet hairdo.

Part of the Eddie Fisher saga.

I'm watching Susan Slade featuring BERT CONVY!!!!!!!!

The Warner Brothers commissary had a sandwich named after her. Elvis loved the combo, but usually added bacon and honey then had the sandwich deep-fried.

Which may, at least in part, explain why Elvis has been dead for the last 46 years and Miss Stevens still walks among us.

She was one of those good time gals, Connie-I-am-an-amusement-park Stevens but complained about how "there's something wrong with Hollywood when actressess can walk off shows like Dynasty and Falcon Crest and get a production deal and I can't". Kind of a self-aggrandizing cunty thing to say.

Anyhoo, she had a massive stroke in 2016 and is shuffling around in a nursing home now. She said, "I bounced back!". Her daughter Joely Fisher said get real mom, hard to call what you're doing 'bouncing'.

R6 Connie Stevens talking about dating Elvis in the beginning of the video

R6 I've been in love with this song since I saw it on "Mulholland Drive." I had no idea it was our Miss Connie. I love her even more now!

Downloading as we speak

I forget who it was who played her in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but I thought she really captured her in that scene at the Playboy mansion. Connie Stevens is one of those people who have a kind of positive glow about them. I love watching her.

She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

r10, don't forget this version...

[quote]Part of the Eddie Fisher saga.

Their marriage only lasted two years. And then three years with Jim Stacy. I wonder if she just said fuck it, I'm over marriage. She managed to live well. She had a beautiful house in Holmby Hills, then traded down to Studio City.

Didn't she have some kind of skin care line?

Forever Cricket...

R16 LOVE it!!

[quote] She managed to live well. She had a beautiful house in Holmby Hills, then traded down to Studio City.

Too well. She went bankrupt and had to sell the beautiful home.

The theme song haunts my dreams.

Ah yesssss. Wait. Bob Conrad was in it?

Connie never brought anything to Nana's cul-de-sac parties. She'd stand there and double-dip her Ruffles and leave half-eaten paper plates of Mrs. Moe Howard's famous tuna casserole in the pool cabana.

[quote]of Mrs. Moe Howard's

Her name was Helen, r21.

[quote]The grounds have extensive if not exactly meticulously kept gardens and beyond the swimming pool there’s a lighted sunken tennis court that doesn’t look in listing photographs to this tennis playing property gossip as if it’s in suitable condition for an actual match.

Oh Burn!

The movie that started our Miss Connie on her way.......Dragstrip Riot! From 1958. I love these cornball trailers. "Fay Wray and Connie Stevens on the SAME SCREEN!"

She did infomercials for her cosmetic line for years.

"Two on a Guillotine" was one of my favorite movies as a kid. The door at the top of the stairs! The rabbit!

Broadway STAR, Connie Stevens...

Does she still sell her skincare line Forever Spring even though she’s almost dead?

Who can forget the burning baby (an obvious cheap doll) in “Susan Slade”.

Always lived “Sixteen Reasons”—such pure, glassy, but also sultry vocals on that song.

What brother-in-law of someone powerful came up with the title “Scorchy”?

[quote] The movie's title and promotional materials imply that the nick-name of Jackie Parker (Connie Stevens) is 'Scorchy'. Jackie Parker (Connie Stevens) in the movie 'is never called Scorchy, or even described as 'scorchy' according to a review by Richard T. Jameson originally published in the October 1976 issue of 'Movietone News'.

I hope there was a post-production beat-down of this moron.

Hey bitches, I played Marilyn.

She was very popular in my house for some reason. We watched everything she was in, in the 60s. I remember Wendy and Me, with George Burns, which we watched on Monday nights. It was probably terrible and lasted only a season, but it was must-see-TV for my kindergarten self. Hawaiian Eye was another family favorite. In retrospect, we probably watched her because my father thought she was hot.

Grease 2 Reproduction

She was the girl who begged: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!

I remember as a kid reading a movie magazine interview with her in which she bemoaned losing the role of Eliza Doolittle to Audrey Hepburn even though she was a Warner's contract player and Audrey wasn't.

Like that was ever gonna happen!

R32, I recorded parts of that movie on my old cassette recorder when it aired. The tape still worked as of a few years ago.

I saw the reruns of Wendy and Me a number of years ago, when Nick at Night or one of those channels started running them, and it holds up really well. (I loved it as a child.)

The best parts are the hideous table lamp and fabulous harvest yellow refrigerator.

It's kind of dull.....It's not nearly as camp as you want it to be.

Decades ago, a friend of mine was working backstage at some benefit concert in L.A. Connie Stevens, with young Joely in tow, wanted to go backstage, but she wasn't on the list.

Miss Stevens: "Excuse me? I am Connie FUCKING Stevens!"

My friend: "I'm sorry, Miss Stevens, but I'm not old enough to care who you are."

(On the rare occasion that her name comes up, we always refer to her as "Connie F. Stevens."

[quote]I remember Wendy and Me, with George Burns

Is this the show where George Burns set up a camera in Connie's apartment and watched everything she did on his TV upstairs?

SS

She always knows where the boys and the booze are!!!!!

[quote]The bubbly Miss Stevens is still with us.

Honey, those bubbles went flat YEARS ago.

Her inability to act is apparent even in a trailer (ditto Troy Donahue)