She was the wife of actor-manager Terence Edward Duff, better known by his stage name Patrick Desmond, who had been running his own touring and repertory companies since 1929 at the age of 21.
[3] In 1945, she appeared in a short film for TV called 'Here We Come Gathering: A Story of the Kentish Orchards' playing the schoolmistress.
She also met Patrick Desmond that year when he engaged her to appear in his summer tour of the play Laura, and the two were married in July 1948 at the Paddington Registrar's Office, London.
[3] In early 1947, Stella and Patrick Desmond formed the London Players' Guild, the object being to give understudies and small-part actors the opportunity to appear in plays which were to be presented on Sundays.
[3] Stella met John Osborne in January 1948 when he was engaged as assistant stage manager for the tour of No Room at the Inn in which she was appearing.
[5] Stella helped him structure and lighten the tone of The Devil Inside Him, and Osborne gave her co-author credits.
Her final stage engagement before leaving for America was to direct Claude Hulbert and Enid Trevor in the comedy For The Love of Mike at the Pavilion Theatre, Torquay in March 1951.
In the summer of 1951 she appeared as a hotel clerk in an episode of the TV show Foreign Intrigue titled "At the Airport"[6] and sometime later was said to have had steady jobs as a gameshow hostess and as a model.
It featured uncredited screenplay contributions by Dalton Trumbo, Philip Yordan, Eugene Daniell and Stella Linden (credited as Anna Sten).
[citation needed] The Los Angeles Times 15 Jan 1968 announced a multi-million dollar program of films to be produced by CKF Productions, Inc. for release by United Artists and supervised by Jerry Bressler.
A report in the Taos News from 30 Sept 1976 promoted a spinning and dyeing workshop conducted by Stella Texel, a native of England.
She had spent the summer at Kristina Wilson's Song of the Wind weaving school at Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico.
Further reports in the Taos News, El Paso Times and Santa Fe New Mexican showed Stella Texel holding spinning and dyeing workshops in the area.
It is possible Stella wrote the novel titled Shameless (Simon & Schuster 1989),[6] which tells the fictional autobiography of a girl named Honey.