Venetia Stevenson
| Venetia Stevenson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson 10 March 1938 London, England |
| Years active | 1957–1961 |
| Spouse(s) |
Russ Tamblyn (1956–1957) (divorce) Don Everly (1962–1970) (divorced) |
| Children | Stacy Everly, Erin Everly and Edan Everly |
Venetia Stevenson (born 10 March 1938) is an English-American film and television actress.
Born in 1938 in London, England, as Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson, she is the daughter of film director Robert Stevenson and actress Anna Lee. The family moved to Hollywood within a year of her birth after her father signed a contract with film producer David O. Selznick. When her parents divorced in 1944, she stayed with her father and new stepmother, Frances. After an education in exclusive Californian private schools, her theatrical debut was with her mother in Liliom, a play produced by the Sombrero Theater, in Phoenix, Arizona, in April 1955 and also with the husband-and-wife team of Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl.
A one-time Miss Los Angeles Press Club, Stevenson was placed on contract by RKO Pictures in November 1956.Hedda Hopper named Stevenson on her list of top movie newcomers in January 1957, alongside Jayne Mansfield. Hopper said of Stevenson, then 18, she is "the most purely beautiful of all the new crop of stars."
On 13 March 1957, Stevenson was cast in CBS's Playhouse 90 adaptation of Charley's Aunt, alongside Tom Tryon, Jackie Coogan, and Jeanette MacDonald. On 12 November 1957, Stevenson appeared as Kathy Larsen in the episode "Trail's End" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot. In the story line Kathy is a former childhood sweetheart of Tom Brewster, played by series star Will Hutchins though Stevenson is eight years younger than Hutchins. She is managing a dance hall to his consternation. Chris Alcaide plays the corrupt Clay Horton, who forces Kathy to marry him so that she cannot testify in court in regard to Horton's numerous crimes. Barbara Stuart is cast as Muriel, Kathy's business partner. Gordon Jones plays Sugarfoot's lively friend, Wasco Wolters, who has a romantic interest in Muriel. This episode reveals that Tom Brewster spent his childhood in Vermont before coming to the Oklahoma Territory. Stevenson subsequently appeared in two other Sugarfoot episodes, including "Brink of Fear" (1958) with fellow co-stars Jerry Paris, Harry Antrim, Allen Case, and Don Gordon.
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