Stella Stevens fits my image of what a movie star was supposed to look like in the 1960s — blonde, sultry, and drop-dead gorgeous! In January 1960, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month, and appeared in the magazine a few more times in the sixties she was a popular magazine model.
She soon was appearing in films and TV throughout the Sixties and Seventies and from the Eighties concentrated on appearing on TV. That body to die for soon established her as the whore with a heart of gold in a number of films and a good time girl in others. I suppose she first came to my attention playing Hildy in “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (1970), where she was one of these whores with a heart of gold and the cameraman focus on her bosom, alongside repeated shots of her cleavage and when she is on the screen it hard to not become a voyeur.
I was smitten with Stella Stevens the instant I saw her in this film.
Many of you out there will probably remember her from the film “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972) as the ex-prostitute wife of cop Ernest Borgnine and climbing round the upturned ship in the skimpiest of dresses soon replaced by a tinier shirt. She was not averse to baring all for her profession the bath scenes in Cable Hogue are very hot when Hildy is bathing the dirty Cable when they first meet and later in the film, he gives her a bath, which again was a hot scene.
The cameraman at every possible opportunity gives the audience plenty of cleavage shots of Stella if you haven’t seen the film I would recommend watching it the first chance you get. Directed by Sam Peckinpah and compared with is previous film a western “The Wild Bunch” Cable Hogue is cheerful, funny, and mostly non-violent and what violence can viewed is on the funny side as well.
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