Dates b: October 18, 1934
d: April 30, 1970

Measurements: 34-22-34

Jeff's Inger-Inklings:
Even through her intoxicating smile and sophisticated poise, I always saw something extremely tragic in her, something that was just a bit disturbing and defied explanation. It was a kid thing; kids are very intuitive, and as a kid, this was something that I sensed in Inger.

I was right it seems, for she committed suicide in 1970, even though there may be other theories. Still, she is believed to have taken her own life.

Jeff's Observations:
In the 1967 film "A Guide for the Married Man", Walter Matthau is having an affair. My question was: "He was married to Inger Stevens for crying out loud! Why did he need to have an affair?!"

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.

Of Interest:
As if her life wasn't strange enough! 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.

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.

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