Beautiful, talented performer who unfortunately--perhaps because she was a former "Playboy" centerfold--was typecast in undemanding, sexpot roles through the 1960s. Although Stevens first gained attention as the vamp, Appassionata von Climax, in the film "Li'l Abner" (1959), it wasn't until John Cassavetes' "Too Late Blues" (1962) and Sam Peckinpah's…
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