Shelley Duvall

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Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is a former American actor, writer, and singer.

Duvall gained critical acclaim for her portrayals of various eccentric characters over the course of her career.

Her awards include a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, a Peabody Award, two Emmy Award nominations, and a BAFTA Award nomination. Duvall, a native of Texas, began her acting in various films by Robert Altman, including Brewster McCloud (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), and 3 Women (1977), the latter of which earned her the Cannes Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress.

She appeared in Annie Hall (1977), and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (1980).

She appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film Time Bandits (1981), the short comedy-horror film Frankenweenie (1984), and the comedy Roxanne (1987). In the 1980s, Duvall began producing television programs aimed at children and youth.

Faerie Tale Theatre, a live-action anthology series based on famous fairy tales, was hosted, produced, and performed between 1982 and 1987.

Tall Tales & Legends (1985-1987), which earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1988, was followed by the 1989 comedy film Nightmare Classics (1989), which she created and produced. Duvall's contribution to film In the 1990s, including supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's thriller The Underneath (1995) and Jane Campion's version Portrait of a Lady (1996).

After which she had to quit acting, Duvall's most recent appearance was in Manna from Heaven (2002).

Early life

Shelley Alexis Duvall was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the first child of Bobbie Ruth Crawford (née Massengale, 1929-2020), a cattle auctioneer, and Robert Richardson "Bobby" Duvall (191919-1994), a cattle auctioneer turned lawyer (not to be confused with actor Robert Duvall, to whom Shelley is not closely related). Scott, Shane, and Stewart are three younger brothers in Duvall.

Duvall spent her first years in various places throughout Texas due to her father's work before the family settled in Houston when she was five years old. Duvall was an imaginative and lively youth, eventually earning the nickname "Manic Mouse" from her mother. She became fascinated in science at a young age, and as a teenager, she aspired to be a scientist. Duvall sold cosmetics at Foley's and attended South Texas Junior College, where she concentrated on diet and diet therapy after graduating from Waltrip High School in 1967.

Personal life

Bernard Sampson, a 1970s resident of Duvall, married artist Bernard Sampson. However, Duvall's film career progressed, leading to their divorce in 1974. Duvall met singer/songwriter Paul Simon while shooting Annie Hall in New York in 1976. The couple married early and shared together for two years. Simon and Carrie Fisher, her companion, were divorced after Duvall introduced Simon to her friend, actress Carrie Fisher; Fisher took up with Simon. Since 1989, Duvall has been involved with musician and former Breakfast Club lead vocalist Dan Gilroy. The two started co-starring in the Disney Channel show Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme, which was also produced by Duvall.

Duvall moved from Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, home to Blanco, Texas, after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Duvall said she returned to Texas in 1994 to shoot Steven Soderbergh's film The Underneath, she reconsidered returning to the state. She resigned from acting after 32 years in the industry in 2002.

On his daytime talk show Dr. Phil, Duvall agreed to be interviewed by Phil McGraw in November 2016. Duvall seemed to be suffering from a mental disorder after the show aired, according to USA Today. The segment received a lot of flak from the public, with many arguing that Duvall was exploited.

Vivian Kubrick, the niece of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's, sent an open letter to Dr. Phil on Twitter, while actress Mia Farrow said it was "upsetting and unethical to hurt Shelley Duvall at a time in her life." Lee Unkrich, the show's producer, survived the film and was able to locate her in 2018. Both the two couples have become close, and Unkrich has said that Duvall remains extremely proud of her work.

"I only knew that it wasn't right for McGraw's emotional sideshow to be the final word on her legacy," Seth Abramovitch, a writer for The Hollywood Reporter, in February 2021. According to the journal, her memory was "sharp and full of engrossing tales." Duvall talked about The Shining's emotional toll and the challenges of long days on set, but Kubrick was "very warm and friendly" to her, as well as the fact that she was "very warm and welcoming" to her. Anjelica Huston, who was dating Jack Nicholson at the time, thought that Duvall was fully committed to the position and had even rented a small apartment in order to be close to the set.

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Career

She met Robert Altman at a party when he was shooting Brewster McCloud (1970) on location in Texas around 1970. Several crew members on the film were captivated by Duvall's upbeat presence and unusual physical appearance, and they wanted to be a part of the film. "I was sick of arguing, and I suspected that I am an actor," Duvall said on committing to the venture. They begged me to come. I jumped on a plane and did it. "I was swept away." Before Altman offered Duvall a job, she had never left Texas. She travelled to Hollywood and later appeared in the film as the free-spirited love interest to Bud Cort's reclusive Brewster.

In McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the son of a convict and mistress to Keith Carradine's character in Thieves Like Us (1974), but later chose Duvall for roles as an unsatisfied mail order bride. In Altman's ensemble comedy Nashville (1975), which was a critical and commercial success, as well as a sympathetic Wild West woman in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976). In PBS's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976), the same year, Duvall left Altman to star as Bernice, a wealthy girl from Wisconsin. "Programming Change" ("Video Vixens") "Night of the Moonies," "Van Arguments") and "Goodnights" were also included in five sketches on Saturday Night Live.

In Robert Altman's psychological thriller 3 Women, Duvall starred Mildred "Millie" Lammoreaux, depicting a woman living in a secluded California desert town. Although there was no script play, Duvall, like other cast members, improvised many of her lines. Despite the film not being a big box office hit, it received critical acclaim, and critics applauded Duvall's achievements. Marie Brenner and Jesse Kornbluth of the Texas Monthly praised Duvall for their "extraordinary results." Her appearances earned the award for Best Actress at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival and the Los Angeles FCA Award for Best Actress, as well as a a BAFTA nomination. She appeared in a minor role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977).

Wendy Torrance, who appeared in The Shining (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick, was Duvall's next role. In Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Jack Nicholson says Kubrick was fantastic to work with but that he was "a different director" with Duvall. Principal photography took a year to complete due to Kubrick's methodical approach. Because Nicholson had to stop reading each draft, the film's script was changed so often that Nicholson stopped reading each draft. Kubrick chastised his actors, and Kubrick and Duvall argued a lot. Kubrick deliberately isolated Duvall and shot through exhausting shootings, including the baseball bat scene, which she had seen 127 times before. Duvall arrived back to Kubrick with clumps of hair that had fallen out due to the extreme strain of filming. In a chat with Roger Ebert, she said making the film was "Almost unbearable." But from other points of view, it's quite nice."

In retrospect, Duvall's appearance in The Shining was initially negative, earning the actor a Golden Raspberry nomination, but Maury Murphy, co-founder of the Golden Raspberries, has expressed regret for her decision. The Razzie committee officially rejected Duvall's nomination on March 31, 2022, stating, "We've since learned that Duvall's performance was influenced by Stanley Kubrick's treatment of her throughout the production." The retraction of the nomination was in reaction to public outrage. The Razzies were given the award for Bruce Willis' win for "Worst Bruce Willis in a 2021 Film," a one-off honor given to eight films released that calendar year. Willis' family announced his resignation on March 30, 2022, after being diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive brain disorder. Both Willis' win and Duvall's nomination were withheld by the Razzie committee the next day. Vulture wrote about Duvall's appearance in 2019: "I was riveted by a particular type of trepidation," she said. Not the fear of an actor out of her place, but the more common apprehension of a victim being pursued around by an ax-wielding maniac. Rather, it was something much more terrifying and familiar: the trembling of a wife who has seen her husband die at his worst and is afraid that she will experience it again. Screen Rant, a media publication, praised her performance as her "best" career appearance, calling her "the heart of the film"; she is "out of her depth" in dealing with her husband's looming insanity while still being concerned about her teenage son's safety, despite being suspicious of malevolence around her.

When Duvall was on target in London, Robert Altman played Olive Oyl in Robert Altman's big-screen adaptation of Popeye opposite Robin Williams. The film was a commercial hit, but it received critical feedback. However, Duvall was praised for her efforts. In the decades since its release, the film has been largely re-evaluated. "Sheelley Duvall is like a rare piece of china with a tinkling face," film critic Roger Ebert said it was a job she was "born to play": "Shelley Duvall is like a precious piece of china with a tinkling face. She looks and sounds like almost every other young actress of the 1970s, and if it's true that she was born to play Olive Oyl (and does so in Altman's latest musical Popeye), it's also true that she has played more realistic characters than nearly every other young actress of the 1970s.

In Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits (1981), Duvall's character Pansy appeared. Duvall and actor Stanley Wilson (who played the town barber in Popeye) were due to marry shortly before the film's release. However, no further details regarding this had been published. Duvall appeared, hosted, and was executive producer of the children's television program Faerie Tale Theatre in 1982. "Rumpelstiltskin" (1982), "The Nightingale" (1983), "Wold and the Seven Dwarfs" (1985), "Puss in Boots" (1986), and "Aladdin and His Amazing Lamp" (1986). Duvall produced 27 hour-long episodes of the program since Robin Williams and Teri Garr's first episode "The Frog Prince." Tall Tales & Legends, another one-hour anthology series for Showtime, featured American folk tales. The series was produced by Faerie Tale Theatre and starred well-known Hollywood celebrities with Duvall as host, executive producer, and occasional guest star. The series lasted nine episodes and earned Duvall an Emmy nomination.

When Duvall was staging Faerie Tale Theatre, it was announced that she would play as the lead in Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, starring Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Cindy Hall, and Sissy Spacek. When the project was finally announced in 1993, it was a completely different cast. She has appeared in film and television series: the mother of a boy whose dog is struck by a car in Tim Burton's short film Frankenweenie (1984), and Laura Burroughs in Booker (also 1984), a biographical television short based on Booker T. Washington's life directed by Stan Lathan. In The Twilight Zone episode "The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness," Duvall appears as a lonely and fragile woman, as well as Steve Martin's friend in the comedy Roxanne (1987).

Think Entertainment, Duvall's 1988 production company, began to produce programs and television films for cable televisions. Nightmare Classics (1989), a third Showtime anthology collection that included adaptations of well-known horror stories by authors including Edgar Allan Poe, was released by her. Nightmare Classics was aimed at a teen and adult audience unlike the previous two series. It was the least successful series that Duvall had created for Showtime and lasted for only four episodes. In the Hulk Hogan action-adventure film Suburban Commando, Duvall portrayed Jenny Wilcox, the wife of Charlie Wilcox (Christopher Lloyd). Duvall's two compact discs, Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall... Sweet Dreams, which features Duvall's singing lullaby songs, and Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall... Merry Christmas, on which Duvall performs Christmas songs, were released in October. Duvall appeared on the television show L.A. Jury as Margo Stanton, a show dog trainer and breeder who presses charges against the owner of a Welsh Correspondent who mated with her award-winning Afghan Hound, a year later. In 1990, she appeared in Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme as Little Bo Peep.'

Think Entertainment acquired Duvall's fourth Showtime original series, Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories, in 1992, which included animated versions of children's storybooks with celebrity narrators and earns her her second Emmy Award. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Duvall's fifth showtime appearance, before releasing Think Entertainment in 1993 and retiring as a producer. In Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady, she appeared as the vain, over-friendly, but harmless Countess Gemini, sister to the calculating Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). In Guy Maddin's fourth film Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, she appeared as a beatific nun in Changing Habits and a befuddled, murderous, ostrich-farm owner. In Horton Foote's made-for-television film Alone, she lived Chris Cooper's gullible wife who yearns for a better life.

Throughout the 1990s, Duvall continued to appear on film and television shows. In the comedy Home Fries and Hilary Duff's character's aunt in the direct-to-video children's film Casper Meets Wendy, she played Drew Barrymore's mother. With a minor role in Tale of the Mummy (1998), co-starring Christopher Lee and Gerard Butler, and Juliette Lewis, co-starring Juliette Lewis, she returned to the horror genre near the end of the decade. Duvall performed minor roles in the 2000s, including as Matthew Lawrence's mother and aunt in the independent family film Dreams in the Attic, which was sold to the Disney Channel but never released. Manna from Heaven, her most recent acting role, was a small part of Manna from Heaven, a 2002 independent film. Since her retirement in 2002, Duvall has lived out of public view.

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