K. T. Stevens

K.T. Stevens (born Gloria Wood; the daughter of film producer and director Sam Wood. She made her first film appearance when she was just two years old in her father's second silent film, Peck's Bad Boy.

As an adult, she changed her name to K.T. Stevens to distance herself from her father's fame. She initially called herself Katherine Stevens, which people often shorted to Katie, leading to the final version with the initials K.T. Her Broadway credits include The Land Is Bright, Yankee Point, Nine Girls and Laura.

Film

Stevens appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including Kitty Foyle (1940, directed by her father) with Ginger Rogers, The Great Man's Lady (1942) with Barbara Stanwyck, Address Unknown (1944), Port of New York (1949) with Yul Brynner, Harriet Craig (1950) with Joan Crawford and Vice Squad (1953) with Edward G. Robinson. She also appeared as Phyllis in the 1969 hit movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Her last film role before her death from lung cancer was in the 1994 Whoopi Goldberg film Corrina, Corrina.

Television Stevens acted on episodic television in such series as Crossroads, The Rebel, The Brothers Brannagan, and appeared on the daytime soap operas General Hospital as part of the original cast (1963–1965), portraying Peggy Mercer who was engaged to Dr. Steve Hardy, Julie Olson's mother-in-law Helen Martin (1966–1967, 1969) on Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless (1976–1981) as the veiled, facially burned Vanessa Prentiss. In the episode "New Neighbors" of the sitcom I Love Lucy, she played opposite Hayden Rorke as television actors who Lucy Ricardo mistakenly believes are foreign secret agents.

Pin-up photo of K.T. Stevens in the issue of Yank, the Army Weekly on June 25, 1944 Stevens appeared in 1957 and again in 1961 in different roles on The Real McCoys. In 1959, she made her first of three guest appearances on Perry Mason as murder victim Ethel Garvin in "The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom." In 1962, she played Margit Bruner in "The Case of the Ancient Romeo," and in 1965, she played Alice Munford in "The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner." In this episode, she was featured as the wife of murderer Guy Munford, played by her then husband Hugh Marlowe. In 1961, she played Ada Kihlgren in "The Broken Wing", one of the latter episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre. The same year, she appeared as Lorraine Miller in "A Great Day for a Scoundrel" on The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Between 1960 and 1963, she guest-starred five times on The Rifleman.

She portrayed Lieutenant Harriet Twain in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Return of the Fighting 69th".

Personal life and death Stevens married actor Hugh Marlowe on May 7, 1946, in San Francisco. They had two sons, Jeffrey and Christian. Stevens and Marlowe acted in the Broadway production of Laura in which, credited as "A Girl" so as not to alert the audience, she played the title role (acted by Gene Tierney in the 1944 film Laura).

Stevens died at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on June 13, 1994, aged 74, after battling lung cancer.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1921 Peck's Bad Boy Henry's Sweetheart Don't Tell Everything Cullen's niece Lost film1940 Kitty Foyle Molly 1942 The Great Man's Lady Girl Biographer 1944 Address Unknown Griselle Eisenstein aka Griselle Stone 1949 Port of New York Toni Cardell 1950 Harriet Craig Clare Raymond 1953 Vice Squad Ginny Tumbleweed Louella Buckley 1956 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Liza Season 2 Episode 5: "None Are So Blind" Jungle Hell Dr. Pamela Ames 1957 Wagon Train Violet Season 1, Episode 11: "The Zeke Thomas Story" 1958 Missile to the Moon The Lido 1959 Perry Mason Ethel Garvin Season 2 Episode 29: "The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom"1962 Perry Mason Margit Bruner Season 5 Episode 28: "The Case of the Ancient Romeo"1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Alice Season 1 Episode 10: "Day of Reckoning"1965 Perry Mason Alice Munford Season 9 Episode 7: "The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner"1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Phyllis 1970 Adam at 6 A.M. Uncredited1973 Pets Mrs. Daubrey 1984 They're Playing with Fire Lillian Stevens 1994 Corrina, Corrina Mrs. Morgan