Connie Stevens is an American actress, director, singer, screenwriter, editor and entrepreneur. She is best known for her role as Chryseis “Cricket” Blake in the TV series Hawaiian Eye from 1959 to 1963. Her career began 2 years earlier when she landed minor roles in films such as Young and Dangerous and Eighteen and This was Acquired by a Comedian named Jerry Lewis noticed. He gave her a role in Rocking a Faraway Baby During this time she also worked on her music career and released her first album Concetta (1958) as well as 2 singles – Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb and Sixteen Reasonsboth reached the top 5 spots on Billboard’s singles chart of 1959.

Connie also had notable appearances in the Wendy & I television series from 1964 to 1965, in a 1967 Broadway play The Star-Spangled Girl , as well as Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1969) television series, Love, American Art TV show in The In 1969, along with one of her most prominent television roles, Shelley Sands starred in a 1996 episode of Baywatch . She appeared in films such as Grease 2 (1982) as Miss Mason, Back to the Beach (1987) as Connie, Band Heads (1988) as the character June Tager, Love Is All There Is (1996), Mickey Stern Comes Back(2002) as Dr. Eloise Vanderwild and others. In 2009, Connie Stevens wrote, directed, and voiced in Saving Grace B. Jones, a film starring Michael Biehn, Tatum O’Neal, Scott Wilson, Piper Laurie, and Connie’s own daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher.

Born name

Concetta Rosalie Anna Ingolia

nickname

Connie

Sun sign

Lion

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States

Residence

Los Angeles, California, United States

nationality

training

After her parents divorced, she lived with her grandparents and attended various Catholic boarding schools.

Later in life, Connie enrolled at The Georgia Massey Professional School in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, where she sang professionally and performed at a local theater.

After settling in Los Angeles, Stevens attended Sacred Heart Academy .

occupation

Actress, Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Singer, Editor, Singer, Entrepreneur

family

• Father – Peter Ingoglia (Teddy Stevens) (singer)
• Mother – Eleanor McGinley (singer)
• Siblings – Charles Stevens (deceased, 1996) (drummer), John Megna (younger half-brother) (actor)
• Other – Charles Ingoglia (Paternal Grandfather),Concetta Katherine Coletti (Paternal Grandmother), Charles Jonathan McGinley (Maternal Grandfather), Sarah “Sadie” Asher (Maternal Grandmother), Jakob/Jacob Coletti (Paternal Grandfather), Hugh McGinley (Maternal Grandfather) , Mary Gilligan (maternal grandfather grandmother), Isidor Harry Asher (maternal grandfather), Esther/Ester “Essie” White (maternal grandmother)

Manager

Connie Stevens is represented by –

• The Brogan Agency in Venice, California, USA
• Talent agency Imperium 7 in Los Angeles, California, USA

To build

Slim

Height

157,5 cm (5 ft 2 in)

weight

54 kg

friend/spouse

Connie Stevens dated –

1. Bill Medley – She used to date American singer Bill Medley.
2. Gardner McKay – Connie and American writer Gardner McKay have been in a relationship in the past.
3. Scott Brady – Actors Scott Brady and Connie are from the ’60s.
4. Neil Armstrong – After breaking up with Scott, she dated legendary American astronaut Neil Armstrong, also in the ’60s.
5. Bo Belinsky – She was rumored to be dating Bo Belinsky, a baseball player, around 1955.
6. Gary Clarke (1958-1961) – She dated American actor Gary Clarke for 3 years from 1958 to 1961.
7. John Ashley (1961) – Connie and John, another well-known American actor, had an encounter in 1961.
8. Glenn Ford (1962) – Connie and Canadian actor Glenn Ford date back to 1962.
9. Elvis Presley (1962) – After breaking up with Glenn, she said that while she was on the set of Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963), Elvis, the legendary singer and musician, Elvis Presley called her and asked her out. They dated sporadically for a year but their relationship left a deep impression on Connie and she said he was one of the sweethearts of her life and she could have spent a lifetime with Elvis.
10. James Stacy (1963-1966) – She began dating actor James Stacy. They married October 12, 1963 and were married until November 2, 1966, when their divorce was final.
11. Eddie Fisher (1966-1969) – She met singer Eddie Fisher a month after four months of marriage, the two married on February 9, 1967. As a result of their marriage, they had two daughters, Joely Fisher (born October 29, 1967). and Tricia Leigh Fisher (born December 26, 1968). She divorced Eddie on June 12, 1969.
12. John McCain (1997) – She dated prominent politician and Vietnam War veteran John McCain in 1997. They met for political reasons they both shared, but broke up the same year.

race/ethnicity

White

She is of Italian (Sicilian), Irish, Ashkenazi, Polish-Jewish, and German-Jewish descent.

hair colour

Blond

eye color

Blau

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Fuller Lips
• Striking blue eyes
• Curly or straight blonde hair

brand promotion

Connie Stevens created and endorsed her own brands – Forever Spring and NuSonic , focusing on skin and makeup products, as well as commercials for Ass Hardware .

She also supported Adopt a Platoon and Wounded Warriors project in 2014 and 2017 charities for military members who are retired or wounded in the service.

Religion

Catholicism

Known for

• Starred in a Hawaiian Eye TV series from 1959 to 1963 as Chryseis ‘Cricket’ Blake
• Forming a vocal quartet The Foremost , forming a singing group The Three Debts in 1953
• Filming documentary A Cure (1997), film Rescue of Grace B. Jones (2009) she has also done a voiceover for
• Starring Grease 2 (1982) as Miss Mason and Back to the Beach (1987) as Connie
• Released several albums between 1958 and 2012, such as Concetta (1958), From Me to You (1962), Sixteen Reasons (2008) and others

First album

Connie’s debut album was titled Concetta and it was released in 1958. It featured singles like Blame My Youth , Looking for a Boy , and Spring Is Here .

first movie

Connie Stevens made her big screen debut in the 1957 film Young and Dangerous in which she had the role of Candy.

First TV show

She made her television show debut as Patience Preston in the Backfire episode of Sugar Foot in 1957.

Personal trainer

It is not known if Connie is still functioning as of 2019, but good genetics played a big part in her physique.

Connie Stevens favorite things

• Activity – supporting charities, directing films, singing

Connie Stevens Facts

1. Both parents were jazz musicians, but she was raised by her grandparents after her parents divorced.
2. Connie adopted her father’s stage name, Stevens, as her own. Her father’s name was Peter Ingoglia, but he adopted the stage name Teddy Stevens for his singing career.
3. She quickly lost her trademark Brooklyn accent that celebrities and artists like Fran Drescher, Edie Falco, Howard Stern and Michael Kors are known for.
4. She was a stepmother to actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in Star Wars in 1977, 1980, 1983 and 2017, and her brother Todd Fisher, who was a film director and producer.
5. Connie was President of the Gary Gray Fan Club when she was a child. After her acting career gained momentum, she had the opportunity to star with the well-known actor in The Party Crashers film in 1958. They also appeared together in the Lone Pine Film Festival in California in 2001.
6. Connie has several grandchildren from her 2 daughters. Joely Fisher had three children with her husband Christopher Duddy, daughter Skylar Fisher-Duddy (born June 14, 2001), True Fisher-Duddy (born February 2, 2006) and adopted daughter Olivia Luna (born September 2008). Their other daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher, has sons Holden Chabot and Wilder Thames (born 30 May 2009).
7. She was declared “Queen of Brooklyn” in 1987 at Welcome Back to the Brooklyn Festival .
8. She made a guest appearance at the first puppet theater that was recorded. It wasn’t actually the show that aired in 1976.
9. She made a guest appearance on a popular TV show Password All-Stars (1961).
10. She was good friends with Shani Wallis, an English actress best known for her film Oliver! (1968) and Poncie Ponce, the Lt. Joe O’Hara in The Brave Men (1963).
11. Connie had a stroke in January 2016.
12. Her reported salary on Young and Dangerous (1957) was $600 a week, while she was paid $300 a week for the Hawaiian Eye television series in 1959.
13. Her music career began when she formed her own singing group, The Foremost . The men who later served as her backup singers became a well-known pop trio, The Lettermen . In 1954, Connie formed an all-female trio of singers she knew from other vocal groups she participated in, naming it The Three Debts .
14. Their daughter, Joely Fisher, is an actress, entrepreneur, and author, and wrote a book called Growing Up Fisher , which went on sale on November 14, 2017. Connie starred alongside her daughter in Search Engines (2016).
15. She starred with her other daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher, in Bring My Head by Dobie Gillis (1988) as well as the film she directed, Saving Grace B. Jones (2009).
16. The film she directed, wrote and spoke for she was inspired by her own life story. Connie grew up in Brooklyn and at the age of 12 witnessed a murder on the street. She then moved to Boonville, Missouri, USA, as did the character in the film. She said writing the screenplay was a cathartic experience as her troubled childhood still haunted her and those emotions lingered for a long time.
17. She was a philanthropist and politically active. She has attended many United Service Organization tours in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf entertaining troops stationed there.
18. She received the Distinguished Community Service Award for her involvement with USO . This is the highest military honor that civilians can receive.
19. Connie had also worked with Project Windfeder , a charity that provides scholarships to children of Native American descent and ethnicity, and Dignity , a foundation specializing in the education of the mentally or physically challenged.
20. In the late 80’s she had to find another career as her fortune ran out and she had a family to take care of. That led her to start a cosmetics line called Forever Spring in 1989. She landed a deal with the home shopping network for marketing.
21. In 2000, the Forever Spring line had more than 300 products and approximately 3 million women purchasing them, and generated more than $0.5 billion in annual sales. The brand was still in full swing as of 2019.
22. Visit her official website @ conniestevens.com
23. Follow her on Twitter.