Actress Venetia Stevenson was once dubbed “the most photogenic girl in the world.” In his 84th year, has passed away.

She was on a magazine in “Back to the Future Part II” and appeared in “Darby’s Rangers,” “Island of Lost Women,” and “Horror Hotel.” Her parents were a “General Hospital” star and the director of “Mary Poppins.”

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Venetia Stevenson, the “most photogenic girl in the world” and daughter of several A-list Hollywood actors and actresses, has passed away. Her film credits include Darby’s Rangers, Island of Lost Women, and Horror Hotel. A sprightly 84 years old.

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According to her brother, actor and photographer Jeffrey Byron, Stevenson passed away on Monday at a healthcare facility in Atlanta following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

His father, Robert Stevenson, was nominated for an Oscar for directing Mary Poppins, and his mother, Anna Lee, starred in How Green Was My Valley and played the matriarch Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital for a quarter of a century.

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In addition to being romantically linked to Elvis Presley, Audie Murphy (her co-star in the 1960 film Seven Ways From Sundown), Tab Hunter, and Anthony Perkins, the actress was married to actors Russ Tamblyn (from Valentine’s Day 1956 until their divorce in April 1957) and Don Everly (from 1962 until 1970).

Her daughter Erin Everly was married to Guns N’ Roses’ frontman Axl Rose from April 1990 until their marriage was annulled in January 1991, so she was also Axl Rose’s mother-in-law for about a year.

Stevenson played Peggy McTavish, a Scottish woman who is paired with an American soldier (Peter Brown’s Rollo Burns) during World War II training in the William Wellman–directed and James Garner–starring film Darby’s Rangers (1958) from Warner Bros.

In the film Island of Lost Women (1959), she co-starred with Diane Jergens and June Blair as the daughters of a nuclear scientist (Alan Napier). The following year, she appeared alongside Christopher Lee as a student who travels to a haunted town to conduct research for a paper on witchcraft at the Horror Hotel (1960).

On March 10, 1938, Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson entered this world in London. When her father signed a contract with Hollywood producer David O. Selznick, the family packed up and moved west.

Peter Gowland, an internationally renowned pin-up photographer, discovered 14-year-old Stevenson on a Malibu beach and promptly became her mentor. Several magazine covers, including Esquire, featured her after she posed for Gowland and his wife.

In a 2016 interview, she said, “I started getting recognized after my pictures started coming out in magazines.” The sensation was very unusual, indeed. A fan would rush up to you and ask if they could get an autograph. In my mind, I’m saying, “Why would you want my autograph?” Nothing has been accomplished on my part.

After being voted “The Most Photogenic Girl in the World” in 1957, Venetia Stevenson became a household name in the photography world. The Everett Collection, Courtesy of
As she and Ursula Andress took tap-dancing and fencing classes together in 1956, an agent from Famous Artists agency signed her, leading to a contract at RKO Radio Pictures.

Next, Stevenson, now represented by the influential agent Dick Clayton, signed with Warner Bros., where he would appear in episodes of shows like Cheyenne, Colt.45, 77 Sunset Strip, Sugarfoot, and Lawman.

They wed at the Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes when she was 17 and he was 21, and 19 months later, in September 1957, Popular Photography magazine named her “the most photogenic girl in the world” out of 4,000 contestants.

While accepting her award on CBS’ The Ed Sullivan Show, where Everly was performing with his brother Phil, newly divorced model Stevenson made his acquaintance. Sweetheart Stout, brewed in Scotland, featured her likeness on their packaging the following year, coinciding with the release of Darby’s Rangers in theaters.

(In Back to the Future Part II, Stevenson was also spotted by Marty McFly on the cover of Oh LàLà magazine in 1989.)

Her filmography also includes appearances in Day of the Outlaw (1959) with Robert Ryan and Tina Louise, Studs Lonigan (1960) with Jack Nicholson, and The Sergeant Was a Lady (1960), in which she co-starred with her mother (1961). After she married Everly, she gave up acting.

Stevenson went on to work as a VP at the production company Cinema Group, a manager who represented the likes of director Renny Harlan, and a script reader for Burt Reynolds’ company (they appeared together on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1960).

Stevenson claimed she acted as “a beard” in photos of Hunter and Perkins taken in public in the 2015 documentary Tab Hunter Confidential.

According to her brother, “she lived a glamorous and busy life.”

Erin’s story was used as the basis for the Guns N’ Roses song “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” and in addition to Byron and their daughter, they are survived by two more children, Stacy and Edan, as well as their father Byron, her sister Caroline, her brother Steve, and their four grandchildren.

“Hollywood is all I’ve ever known,” she once said. A doctor or an accountant is probably not someone I could connect with. How would we possibly fill that time? When I give it some thought, I realize that movies are pretty much the sum total of my experience in life.

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