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Line 23: Stevens emerged as a [[film noir]] leading man in such films as ''[[Within These Walls (film)\|Within These Walls]]'' (1945) and ''[[The Dark Corner]]'' (1946), the latter pairing him with [[Lucille Ball]]. He played an [[FBI]] man going undercover to arrest a gangster played by [[Richard Widmark]] in ''[[The Street with No Name\|The Street With No Name]]'' (1948), and appeared as [[Olivia de Havilland]]'s loyal husband in ''[[The Snake Pit]]'' (1948). Stevens also performed in musicals including ''[[I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (film)\|I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?]]'' (1947) and ''[[Oh, You Beautiful Doll (film)\|Oh, You Beautiful Doll]]'' (1949).<ref>[http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:68150 All Movie biography]</ref> In 1951, he starred in the [[DuMont Television Network\|DuMont]] series ''[[News Gal]]'' which was later syndicated on ABC in 1957. From 1954-1956 he played a newspaper managing editor in the [[CBS Television]] series ''[[Big Town]]'', having replaced [[Patrick McVey]], who starred in the role from 1950-1954. Reruns of ''Big Town'' began airing on DuMont under the title ''City Assignment'' while new episodes of the series were still appearing on CBS. In the 1950s Stevens was also a television actor, producer and writer. He worked in semi-retirement in the 1960s in Europe.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828594/bio IMDB Biography]</ref> In the 80's he appeared in television shows ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' and ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''.