Editing Inger Stevens (section)

== Early life ==
Inger Stevens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the eldest child of Per Gustaf<ref>{{cite news |title=Obits {{!}} Per Stensland |newspaper=[[The Newtown Bee]] |date=August 14, 1998 |url=https://www.newtownbee.com/08111999/headline-453/ |access-date=2022-09-29}}</ref><!-- "Per-Stensland" "Manhattan-Kansas" – Google Search --> and Lisbet Stensland.<ref name="gggnd">{{cite book |last=Pilato |first=Herbie J. |title=Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door: Television's Iconic Women from the 50s, 60s, and 70s |date=2014 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-58979-970-7 |page=134 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbyCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 |access-date=June 17, 2017 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Farmer's Daughter Remembered: The Biography of Actress Inger Stevens |first=William T. |last=Patterson |date=September 30, 2017 |publisher=[[Xlibris]] |isbn=978-0-7388-1192-5}}{{self-published source|date=January 2018}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}} When she was six years old, her mother abandoned the family, taking her youngest son Peter with her. Soon after, Stevens' father moved to the United States, leaving Stevens and her brother Ola in the custody of the family maid and then later with an aunt on [[Lidingö]],<ref name="ingerstevens.org">{{cite web |title=A Short Biography |first=Jerry |last=Lem |website=The Inger Stevens Memorial Site |url=http://www.ingerstevens.org/bio.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406090557/http://www.ingerstevens.org/bio.html|archive-date=2018-04-06}}{{rs|date=October 2022}}</ref> an island near Stockholm.<ref name=brumburgh>{{cite news |last=Brumburgh |first=Gary |title=Inger Stevens: Wounded Butterfly |newspaper=[[Classic Images]] |url=http://www.classicimages.com/people/article_1e7f82c6-bac3-57e9-a1bb-2d301aee1af7.html |access-date=October 13, 2015 |archive-date=October 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026212849/http://www.classicimages.com/people/article_1e7f82c6-bac3-57e9-a1bb-2d301aee1af7.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1944, Stevens and her brother moved to the United States and lived with their father and his new American wife in New York City, where her father was completing his PhD in education at [[Columbia University]]. At age 13, Stevens moved with her family to [[Manhattan, Kansas]], where her father taught at [[Kansas State University]]. Stevens attended [[Manhattan High School]].<ref name=gggnd />

At 15, Stevens fled to [[Kansas City metropolitan area|Kansas City]], where she worked in [[American burlesque|burlesque]] shows.<ref>{{cite web |title=TECH 1: The Mysterious Death of Inger Stevens |last=Silverman |website=tech1tech1.blogspot.com |date=February 14, 2015 |url=https://tech1tech1.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-mysterious-death-of-inger-stevens.html}}</ref> At 18, she returned to New York City, where she worked as a [[Chorus line|chorus girl]] and in the [[Garment District, Manhattan|Garment District]] while taking classes at the [[Actors Studio]].<ref name=brumburgh /><ref>{{Cite web |last=McOmish |first=Sorcha McCrory, Freya |date=2023-08-10 |title=What Ever Happened to Inger Stevens? |url=https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/what-ever-happened-to-inger-stevens/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Scandinavia Standard |language=en-US}}</ref>