Marriages and relationships Stevenson married
MGM actor-dancer
Russ Tamblyn on February 14, 1956, shortly after her half-brother, actor
Jeffrey Byron, was born to her mother. She was 17 when Tamblyn and she had their wedding in the
Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes. Stevenson and Tamblyn divorced in April 1957 A widely reproduced photograph shows Stevenson calmly walking down a Los Angeles street, seemingly unaware that Tamblyn is doing a spectacular backward aerial handspring a few inches away from her. Stevenson had a year-long affair with actor
Audie Murphy, which began when they co-starred in
Seven Ways from Sundown in 1960. In 1962, Stevenson married
Don Everly and retired from acting and modeling. She had often said she hated acting. but most of the men she dated were only friends to her. In his 2005 autobiography,
Tab Hunter Confidential: the Making of a Movie Star,
Tab Hunter, whom she frequently dated, Although their relationship was an open secret in Hollywood, Stevenson was a confidante for Perkins during their romance. "[C]ertainly, we all knew Tony [Perkins] was gay", Stevenson told a Perkins biographer. "We were real friends, and he would sleep over at my house in the same bed. But there was never, ever any... well, you know. If you have a friend of the opposite sex who's gay, it's just up in the air."
Death Stevenson died on 26 September 2022, at a health care facility in
Atlanta from
Parkinson's disease. ==Selected filmography==