The article "Inger Stevens: No Hayseed" was written by Susan Smith and originally published in the Miami Herald on December 10, 1963. Here are excerpts:
Actress Inger Stevens gets irritated with lazy actors, dislikes drinking beer from cans and thinks women who wear high heels with slacks look terrible.
When she has free time, Inger takes long walks and paints. "And I read everything, even J. Edgar Hoover. I just finished Jessica Mitford's book about the high cost of dying and I was horrified. What a racket, and those people having 'vaultburgers.' Vaultburgers! What kind of taste is that?"
Her own taste includes simple, tailored clothes. She thinks "junk" jewelry is "for the birds."
Unlike most amateur painters, she won't keep a painting of her own. "If I did, I'd sit and look at it and think of all the ways it could be improved." Her paintings are mostly impressionistic and most given away to friends.
She denies being a perfectionist, but friends say Inger remembers to a fraction of an inch exactly where she should stand for each line of a scene.
"In movies you have more time, especially between scenes, to knit or read or make paper dolls or whatever, but in TV we are doing one show per week now, and the pace moves."
Every two years or so Inger returns to her native Sweden for a visit. "All my family is over there now, and they all want to come live with Inger," she says ruefully.
