Ingrid Stensland Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Inger Stevens (18 October 1934 – 30 April 1970) was a Swedish-American film and TV actress.
Full Name
Ingrid Stensland
Net Worth
$900,000
Date Of Birth
October 18, 1934
Died
1970-04-30
Death Cause
Drug-related overdose
Place Of Birth
Stockholm, Sweden
Height
5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack
Spouse
Anthony Soglio
Nicknames
Inger Stevens, Stevens, Inger
Star Sign
Libra
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Once I felt that I was one person at home and the minute I stepped out the door I had to be somebody else. I had a terrific insecurity and extreme shyness that I covered up with coldness. Everybody thought I was a snob. I was really just plain scared.
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A career, no matter how successful, can't put its arms around you. You end up being like Grand Central Station with people just coming and going. And there you are--left all alone.
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Fact
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While studying at the famous Actors Studio, to earn money she became a dancer at New York's Latin Quarter nightclub.
A 1952 graduate of Manhattan (KS) High School, she is being inducted into the MHS Hall of Fame, along with classmate Del Close (January 2007).
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When she died in 1970, she left an estate estimated at $162,000.
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First husband, Tony Soglio, was also her first agent. They married in 1955 but separated after only six months. Since there was no community property, he was given 5% of her earnings for the next seven years upon their 1958 divorce.
A month after her death, her widower, Ike Jones, asked to be named administrator of her estate. Her brother appeared in court to support him, and eventually was given half of the estate. He immediately gave all the money to children's charities and mental health organizations.
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Was romantically involved with Bing Crosby during and after they appeared together in Man on Fire (1957). The relationship never led to marriage because Stevens refused to convert to Catholicism. When Crosby married Kathryn Grant, (who had converted) a year or two later, Stevens was devastated.
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SPOILER: One of her best remembered TV roles was the episode The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker (1960), in which she played a frantic driver who kept passing the same hitchhiker on the road ("Going my way?"). The audience later finds out the phantom actually represented Death and that she had been killed in a car accident all along.
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She cheated death three times. In her first suicide attempt, she swallowed sleeping pills and ammonia which left her with blood clots in her lungs, legs swelled up to twice their size, and temporary blindness (she miraculously recovered within weeks); one time, she and Rod Steiger were nearly asphyxiated by carbon monoxide fumes while filming a scene from Cry Terror! (1958) in a tunnel (Steiger said years later she initially refused medical treatment at the scene, she said she wanted to die); and once she leaped from a crash-landing jet liner minutes before it exploded.
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Following her suicide from acute barbiturate poisoning, it was revealed that Inger had been long married (from 1961) to African-American bit actor Ike Jones. The marriage, for obvious reasons, was kept under wraps to protect her career. They were estranged at the time she died.
