Inger Stevens was a Swedish-American stage, film and television actress best known for her role of Katy Holstrum in the American situation comedy television series ‘The Farmer's Daughter’. This classy yesteryear beauty had to struggle all through her life with relationships starting from her troubled childhood after her mother abandoned the family to falling and failing in love with her co-stars that often left her depressed. She ran away from home at 16 and started working in burlesque shows only to be brought back by her father. She later worked as a chorus girl and took classes at the Actors Studio and began appearing in commercials, plays and TV series before landing with her breakthrough role with the Bing Crosby starrer film ‘Man on Fire’. She moved on with several other film and television appearances but became a household name with the TV series ‘The Farmer's Daughter’. Success of the series that ran for three seasons paved way for several notable films. These include some of her brilliant performances in films like ‘A Guide for the Married Man’, ‘Madigan’, ‘5 Card Stud’ and ‘A Dream of Kings’ among others. Untimely death of this somewhat mystery lady was attributed to "acute barbiturate poisoning".