It is rare that an actress can transcend the entire entertainment gamut — motion picture star, television star, Broadway star, recording artist, concert headliner, and entrepreneur. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Connie Stevens has earned, again and again, the title of Super Star.
Her international reputation has carried her around the world — performing for four U.S. Presidents at the White House and the Kennedy Center; touring with Bob Hope to American troops from Korea to Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, where she remains, in her own words, devoted to "my favorite Americans."
Her musical artistry began at sixteen, in a vocal group called The Three Debs. She would soon become the first artist signed to the newly formed Warner Brothers Records, recording two mega-hits in the early sixties: "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" with Ed "Kookie" Byrnes, and the No. 1 single of 1961, "Sixteen Reasons."
On screen she became a household name as Cricket Blake, the irrepressible heart of ABC's Hawaiian Eye, then carried that radiance into films opposite Troy Donahue — Parrish, Palm Springs Weekend, Susan Slade — and across decades into Grease 2, Back to the Beach, and Tapeheads. On Broadway she was Neil Simon's Star Spangled Girl, opposite Anthony Perkins.
She built a cosmetics empire — Forever Spring — with more than 300 products and a clientele of over three million. She produced and directed A Healing, an award-winning documentary on the women who served in Vietnam. Her crowning achievement, she is quick to remind, is her two daughters: Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher.
