Stella Stevens

Stella Stevens (no relation to the Hollywood actress who won the 1960 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year) was a 1950's cheesecake model who became Avon films' office manager. Eventually, she found her way in front of Avon's cameras, being memorably featured in "The Taming of Rebecca," playing Miss Zorda, who runs the "boarding school for trouble youth." The film's protagonist, Sharon Mitchell, plays a runaway girl who confides to Miss Zorda the sordid story of her many sexual abuses, shown in flashback.