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Connie Stevens - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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Born August 8, 1938 - American actress and singer.
After her parents divorced, she lived with her grandparents, and then in a Catholic boarding school, where she received her education. At 12, Conchetta witnessed a murder in Brooklyn, after which she was sent to Missouri, where she was placed with family friends. In her youth, Concetta, being from a musical family, decided to connect her career with music. She adopted the pseudonym Connie Stevens, using her father's stage name. Initially she was a vocalist in the musical group “The Foremost” she created. In 1954 she moved with her father to Los Angeles, where a year later she joined the musical group The Three Debs. At the same time, she studied at the Georgia Massys School of Song and Dance, where, in addition to her professional musical education, she received skills in an acting career, performing at a local theater. In 1957, Connie Stevens made her film debut. A year later, she co-starred in the Jerry Lewis film Rock-A-Bye Baby, and shortly thereafter, Warner Bros. offered her a contract. The greatest success she still brought her roles on television, especially participation in the detective series "Hawaiian Eye", where the actress starred from 1959 to 1962. The character of the singer Cricket Black, performed by Stevens, became so successful that Elvis Presley became one of her fans. The popular singer personally called her and invited her to a party, after which a friendship struck up between them, which lasted until Presley's death. In addition, her role in the sitcom "Wendy and Me" by George Burns in the mid-1960s became successful. All this time, Connie Stevens continued to develop her musical career. Many of her songs, which she often performed in films where she herself starred, became hits and occupied high positions in the Billboard charts. Among them: Blame It On My Youth, Looking For A Boy, Spring Is Here, Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb, Sixteen Reasons and Too Young to Go Steady .
In addition to a career in show business, Stevens is also involved in charity work, organizing a project for an American Indian scholarship and participating in the activities of organizations to fight cancer. Connie Stevens is the developer of her own skincare line, Forever Spring, and opened a spa in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. Since 2005, Stevens has been the Secretary-Treasurer of the Screen Actors Guild of the United States. A Republican supporter, she has provided financial support to the US Republican Party and its committee in Congress for many years. The actress was married twice. Her first husband was actor James Stacy, after the divorce, with which she married singer Eddie Fisher, who became the father of her two daughters. Her contributions to television are starred on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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