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| 1 | While studying at the famous Actors Studio, to earn money she became a dancer at New York's Latin Quarter nightclub. |
| 2 | Niece of theatre and film actress Karin Stensland. |
| 3 | Aunt to actress Athena Ashburn, who was married to actor/writer/director Gabriel Bologna, who is the son of the comedy acting/writing team of Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor. |
| 4 | A 1952 graduate of Manhattan (KS) High School, she is being inducted into the MHS Hall of Fame, along with classmate Del Close (January 2007). |
| 5 | When she died in 1970, she left an estate estimated at $162,000. |
| 6 | First husband, Tony Soglio, was also her first agent. They married in 1955 but separated after only six months. Since there was no community property, he was given 5% of her earnings for the next seven years upon their 1958 divorce. |
| 7 | Was in the running but lost out on the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) to Audrey Hepburn. |
| 8 | Replaced Barbara Bel Geddes on Broadway in "Mary, Mary" in 1962. |
| 9 | A month after her death, her widower, Ike Jones, asked to be named administrator of her estate. Her brother appeared in court to support him, and eventually was given half of the estate. He immediately gave all the money to children's charities and mental health organizations. |
| 10 | Was romantically involved with Bing Crosby during and after they appeared together in Man on Fire (1957). The relationship never led to marriage because Stevens refused to convert to Catholicism. When Crosby married Kathryn Grant, (who had converted) a year or two later, Stevens was devastated. |
| 11 | SPOILER: One of her best remembered TV roles was the episode The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker (1960), in which she played a frantic driver who kept passing the same hitchhiker on the road ("Going my way?"). The audience later finds out the phantom actually represented Death and that she had been killed in a car accident all along. |
| 12 | She cheated death three times. In her first suicide attempt, she swallowed sleeping pills and ammonia which left her with blood clots in her lungs, legs swelled up to twice their size, and temporary blindness (she miraculously recovered within weeks); one time, she and Rod Steiger were nearly asphyxiated by carbon monoxide fumes while filming a scene from Cry Terror! (1958) in a tunnel (Steiger said years later she initially refused medical treatment at the scene, she said she wanted to die); and once she leaped from a crash-landing jet liner minutes before it exploded. |
| 13 | Following her suicide from acute barbiturate poisoning, it was revealed that Inger had been long married (from 1961) to African-American bit actor Ike Jones. The marriage, for obvious reasons, was kept under wraps to protect her career. They were estranged at the time she died. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The New Interns | 1964 | | Nancy Terman |
| Empire | 1963 | TV Series | Ellen Thompson |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Adele Hughes / Anna Beza |
| The Doctors and the Nurses | 1963 | TV Series | Clarissa Robin |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1963 | TV Series | Karen Wilson |
| Sam Benedict | 1962 | TV Series | Theresa Stone |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1962 | TV Series | Christine Warren |
| Golden Showcase | 1962 | TV Series | Bobby Halevy |
| Follow the Sun | 1961 | TV Series | Lisa Mannheim / Abby Ellis |
| Route 66 | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Julie Brack / Wendy |
| The Detectives | 1961 | TV Series | Thea Templeton |
| The Aquanauts | 1961 | TV Series | Margot Allison |
| Adventures in Paradise | 1961 | TV Series | Dr. Britta Sjostrom |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | 1961 | TV Series | Princess Flavia |
| The Twilight Zone | 1960 | TV Series | Jana / Nan Adams |
| Hong Kong | 1960 | TV Series | Joan Blakely |
| Checkmate | 1960 | TV Series | Betty Lyons |
| Moment of Fear | 1960 | TV Series | |
| Zane Grey Theater | 1960 | TV Series | Beth Watkins |
| Sunday Showcase | 1959 | TV Series | Nina Kay |
| Bonanza | 1959 | TV Series | Emily Pennington |
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil | 1959 | | Sarah Crandall |
| Playhouse 90 | 1956-1959 | TV Series | Gail Lucas / Johanna - Chambermaid |
| The Buccaneer | 1958 | | Annette Claiborne |
| Cry Terror! | 1958 | | Mrs. Joan Molner |
| Man on Fire | 1957 | | Nina Wylie |
| Climax! | 1957 | TV Series | Marge |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1957 | TV Series | Laura Ross |
| The Millionaire | 1956 | TV Series | Betty Perkins |
| The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | 1956 | TV Series | Ruth |
| Conflict | 1956 | TV Series | Lady Arabella |
| Crusader | 1956 | TV Series | Alicia |
| Matinee Theatre | 1956 | TV Series | |
| Crunch and Des | 1956 | TV Series | The Actress |
| Studio One in Hollywood | 1954-1955 | TV Series | Lucy Mary Sue Ellen |
| Mama | 1955 | TV Series | |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | 1955 | TV Series | |
| Kraft Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Danger | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Mister Peepers | 1954 | TV Series | Tracey Brown |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | Bess Polo |
| Goodyear Playhouse | 1954 | TV Series | Jana |
| Run, Simon, Run | 1970 | TV Movie | Carroll Rennard |
| The Mask of Sheba | 1970 | TV Movie | Sarah Kramer |
| The Most Deadly Game | 1970 | TV Series | Vanessa Smith |
| A Dream of Kings | 1969 | | Anna |
| House of Cards | 1968 | | Anne de Villemont |
| 5 Card Stud | 1968 | | Lily Langford |
| Hang 'Em High | 1968 | | Rachel Warren |
| Madigan | 1968 | | Julia Madigan |
| Firecreek | 1968 | | 'Evelyn' / Evelyn Pittman |
| A Time for Killing | 1967 | | Emily Biddle |
| A Guide for the Married Man | 1967 | | Ruth Manning |
| The Borgia Stick | 1967 | TV Movie | Eve Harrison |
| The Farmer's Daughter | 1963-1966 | TV Series | Katy Holstrum / Katy Morley / Ann Carpenter |
| ABC's Nightlife | 1965 | TV Series | |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
| Gypsy | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 39th Annual Academy Awards | 1967 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member |
| The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Pat Boone Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Andy Williams Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 38th Annual Academy Awards | 1966 | TV Special | Herself - Accepting the Award for Freddie Young |
| The Danny Kaye Show | 1966 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 37th Annual Academy Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member |
| Inger Stevens in Sweden | 1965 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Hostess |
| The 22th Annual Golden Globes Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| The Bob Hope Show | 1964 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Your First Impression | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
| Girl Talk | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Tonight Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
| Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 31st Annual Academy Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Herself - Performer |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1957 | TV Series | Herself on stage and in film clip |
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