Rachel Stephens

Rachel Stephens was an American actress who worked on stage and in television and film. She grew up in Fairfield, Illinois, and by 1953 had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in theater arts from Indiana University Bloomington. Before movies, she worked as a research assistant for CBS and acted on television, and that work led Twentieth Century Fox to sign her in May 1956 without a screen test. Her first film part was a nurse in the drama Bigger Than Life (1956), with James Mason and Barbara Rush, and she was Anne James in The True Story of Jesse James (1957). She had an uncredited role as Miss Trimmingham in From the Terrace (1960), and her final screen appearance came in Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994). On stage she appeared in Bus Stop in 1955 as Hope Lange's sister, toured in Send Me No Flowers in 1976 with Van Johnson, and was in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady in 1980.