stevens steals the film

I wholeheartedly agree with you! Inger Stevens, had she lived, would have been one of the premier female stars of the seventies, right up there with Jane Fonda (whose career-milestone, Oscar-nominated role in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? was originally offered to Inger, who turned it down to do A Dream of Kings with one-time lover Anthony Quinn), Ellen Burstyn, Gena Rowlands and Faye Dunaway. In fact, it is awful to say but these aforementioned actresses' careers might not have been as luminous had Inger not died because she would have been around to snap up a lot of the roles that made them superstars. Inger Stevens was a radiant, luminous beauty and an actress of subdued power. She was equally adept at comedy and drama, and was always compelling to watch, because she gave one-hundred percent of herself on screen. Her stunning (and tragically true-to-life) performance in A Dream of Kings should have given her a supporting actress Academy nomination, and it proved she was just on the verge of fulfilling her initial promise of cinema greatness a decade before, in the late fifties. Her fans have missed her, and like her spiritual sister Marilyn Monroe, new generations of movielovers marvel at her great beauty and talent when they first catch some of her work. From a middle-aged film fan who was in grade school when The Farmer's Daughter was on prime-time tv in the mid-sixties, it is wonderful to find someone else on the web who agrees about Inger. She was, and through her film and tv work still is, one of a kind!