Stevens born Gloria Wood was born in Los Angeles California the daughter of film producer and director Sam Wood She made her first film appearance when she was just two years old in her fathers second silent film Pecks Bad Boy As an adult she changed her name to K T Stevens to distance herself from her fathers fame She initially called herself Katherine Stevens which people often shorted to Katie leading to the final version with the initials KT Stevens appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s including Kitty Foyle directed by her father with Ginger Rogers The Great Mans Lady with Barbara Stanwyck Address Unknown Port of New York with Yul Brynner Harriet Craig with Joan Crawford and Vice Squad with Edward G Robinson She also appeared as Phyllis in the 1969 hit movie Bob Carol Ted Alice Her last film role before her death from lung cancer was in the 1994 Whoopi Goldberg film Corrina Corrina