Rachel Stephens

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Rachel Stephens (October 29, 1930 – December 14, 2018) was an American television, stage, and motion picture actress.

Education

Born in

theatre arts. Prior to acting in movies she was a CBS research assistant
and a television actress.

Theater

Stephens performed on stage as a reporter in The Best Things In Life Are Free and as the sister of Hope Lange in Bus Stop (play) (1955). In 1972 she appeared with Jo Anne Worley at the Arlington Park Theater in Chicago. Stephens played Charlie's former mistress in a rendition of the comedy Goodbye Charlie by George Axelrod.

She was part of a cast which toured with Van Johnson in the comedy Send Me No Flowers, in 1976. In 1980 she was featured in the Neil Simon play The Gingerbread Lady. Stephens starred as Toby, an aging beauty who needs to be constantly reminded that she is attractive.

Movie actress

Stephens was signed to a film contract by

Twentieth Century Fox in May 1956. In her first movie she played a nurse in Bigger Than Life (1956). The film was a drama which starred James Mason and Barbara Rush
. Stephens next appeared in Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) directed by Nunnally Johnson and produced by Cheryl Crawford.

In The True Story of Jesse James (1957), she has the part of Anne James.

Stephens has an uncredited part, as Miss Trimmingham, in

Golden Globe nomination. Her last film appearance came in 1994 in Ri¢hie Ri¢h
as Richie's secretary.

Private life

Stephens dated

emerald hue. She was married with Dennis Sook until his death in October 2017, she died a year later in Evanston, Illinois, at age 88.[citation needed
]

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