Angela Stevens

{{Short description|American actress and singer (1925–2016)}} {{Infobox person | name = Angela Stevens | image = Cropped_Photo_of_Angela_Stevens.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Ann Evelyn Allen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|5|8}} | birth_place = Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|3|17|1925|5|8}} | death_place = Sun City, Menifee, California, U.S. | other_names = Ann Zika | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1950–63 | spouse = George Zika (1940s-1999) | children = 2 }}

'''Angela Stevens''' (born '''Ann Evelyn Allen<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZEwDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Ann+Evelyn+Allen%22&pg=PT388|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2016|last1=Lentz|first1=Harris M. III|date=2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476670317|page=374|language=en|access-date=21 September 2018}}</ref>''', May 8, 1925 – March 17, 2016) was an American film actress and singer.<ref name=":0" />

==Biography== Stevens was born in Eagle Rock, California.<ref name="ci">{{cite journal|last1=Lentz|first1=Harris III|title=Angela Stevens, 90|journal=Classic Images|date=February 2017|issue=500|page=58}}</ref> She appeared in several Three Stooges films, such as ''He Cooked His Goose'', ''Pardon My Backfire'' and ''Blunder Boys''.{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} Other credits include ''The Hoodlum'', ''The Sun Was Setting'' by Edward D. Wood Jr, ''Without Warning!'', ''Creature with the Atom Brain'', ''The Harder They Fall'' and ''The Wild One''.

In 1955, Stevens sued a dress shop owner for $36,500, saying that an attack from a "wild and vicious" ocelot disfigured her, which cost her a role in a film.<ref>{{cite news |title=Actress Seeks Damages For Ocelot Attack |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25116687/angela_stevens/ |work=The Daily Herald |agency=United Press |date=May 9, 1955 |location=Utah, Provo |page=2|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = November 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>

Stevens married George Zika in the early 1940s<ref name=ci/>

==Filmography== ===Feature films=== *''Utah Blaine'' (1957) as Mary Blake *''The Shadow on the Window'' (1957) as Myra *''The Harder They Fall'' (1956) as Girl *''Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado'' (1956) as Laurie Webster *''The Naked Street'' (1955) as Janet *''Women's Prison ''(1955) as Prisoner *''Creature with the Atom Brain'' (1955) as Joyce Walker *''Devil Goddess'' (1955) as Nora Blakely *''The Wild One'' (1954) as Betty *''The Last Time I Saw Paris'' (1954) as Pert young girl *''Savage Mutiny'' (1953) as Joan Harris *''Jack McCall, Desperado'' (1953) as Rose Griffith *''From Here to Eternity'' (1953) as Jean *''The Mississippi Gambler'' (1953) as Girl *''Without Warning!'' (1952) as Blonde *''Eight Iron Men'' (1952) *''The Kid from Broken Gun'' (1952) as Gail Kingston *''Outlaw Women'' (1952) *''Just This Once'' (1952) as Girl *''In Old Amarillo'' (1951) as Bar girl *''Two Tickets to Broadway'' (1951) as Blonde *''The Hoodlum'' (1951) as Christie Lang *''Iron Man'' (1951) as Girl *''Katie Did It'' (1951) as Taffy

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0828234|name=Angela Stevens}} *[https://threestooges.net/cast/actor/347 Angela Stevens at threestooges.net] *[http://www.classicimages.com/people/article_1249ce17-9531-5331-b323-2011013bb11b.html Interview with Angela Stevens] October 5, 2007

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