MM--SHE WAS AVAILABLE, BUT I CHOSE SS

At a young age, I had a bevy of movie star beauties to be attracted to. Monroe, Mansfield, Loren, et. al. Even Mary Tyler Moore from tv along with Joey Heatherton, Barbara Parkins, Mia Farrow before the awful hair.

But the one I sat up and noticed was Stella Stevens. I guess Jerry Lewis did, too, because she was in more than one of his movies.

Although SS was in the mold of the bleached blonde, she seemed as if she tried less to be attractive. She was funny, too, which Tuesday Weld and others were not in the least.

Stella wasn't stuck up. She didn't even flirt. She was kinda like my first rejection in grade 5 only nicer. For lack of a better term, she seemed wholesome. Not quite the Sandra Dee innocence, but just sweet. Easy on the eyes, too.

After those Lewis movies, I don't know what happened to her. By then I had turned my attention elsewhere. To Racquel Welch.