Kaye Stevens
The break came because somebody else got sick. Kaye Stevens was booked at the Riviera in Las Vegas when Debbie Reynolds, the headliner, fell ill, and Stevens went on in her place. That night turned into a nightclub career: the Persian Room at the Plaza and the Waldorf Astoria in New York, then Caesars Palace back on the Strip. She was a singer first, and the screen work followed the way it did for every Vegas performer of that generation.
The credits collected here are all from the back end of it, and all from American television's most formulaic decade: guest parts on CHiPs, 240-Robert, Superboy and B.L. Stryker, where she played Sharia. The single feature is Jaws 3-D in 1983, in which she is Mrs Kallender.
It is a thin record for somebody who worked constantly, and that is the honest summary of the page: her real career happened in rooms nobody filmed. She died in 2011.
Movies (1)
TV (4)
Where to start with Kaye Stevens
Jaws 3-D is the only film here and the only credit most people will have seen, though it is a poor sequel by any measure and her part is small. Watch it for the 1983 spectacle of a franchise running out of ideas in three dimensions.
The television is the more honest record of what she did: B.L. Stryker gives her the most to play, CHiPs and 240-Robert are the American procedural circuit that employed hundreds of performers like her, and Superboy is the late curio. None of it is essential. If you want the real Kaye Stevens, the Las Vegas and New York nightclub act, it is not on this page and not on film, which is true of most of that generation of singers.