Okay , it's time to leave Norway for now and venture to Sweden. So far we've read about seemingly content Hollywood stars, now it's time for tragedy.
Inger Stevens born Inger Stensland was born in Stockholm Sweden in 1934. In 1944, she came to live with her father in the United States. As a teen, she ran away from home finding work as a showgirl in New York City. She eventually studied at The Actor's Studio.
She started in commercials and summer stock. Inger made her film debut in Man on Fire with Bing Crosby. Other notable films include The Buccaneer, A Guide for the Married Man, Madigan, and House of Cards. She was awarded a Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated for her role as the Swedish governess in the TV series "The Farmer's Daughter." She was also in the highly memorable Twilight Zone eposide playing a female driver who keeps passing the same hitchhiker. The hitchhiker represented death and that she had been killed in a car accident.
Her affairs included Bing Crosby, Anthony Quinn, Dean Martin, and Burt Reynolds, whom she dated shortly before her suicide.
Her first suicide attempt was swallowing sleeping pills and ammonia. She finally died of an overdose of barbiturates in 1970.
Her last marriage to Ike Jones, an African-American was kept secret until the time of her death for fears their interracial marriage would affect her career. They were long estranged by the time she died but he was named administrator of her estate giving the money to children's charities and mental health organizations.
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