Shelley Winters

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Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965) were among her film appearances, and she received awards for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

Winters also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Pete's Dragon (1977). Winters also appeared on television, including a time on the sitcom Roseanne, as well as three autobiographical books.

Early life

Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose (née Winter), a singer with the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre ("The Muny"), and Jonas Schrift, a male clothing designer. Her parents were Jewish; her father immigrated from Grymalow, Austria-Hungary; and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants who were also from Grymalow. Her parents were third cousins. Her Jewish education included attendance at the Jamaica Jewish Center and learning Hebrew songs at her public school. When she was nine years old, her family migrated to Brooklyn, New York, and she grew up a little in Queens, New York, as well. She worked as a young woman as a model. Blanche Schrift's sister married George Boroff, who operated the Circle Theatre (now called El Centro Theatre) in Los Angeles, California, later in the year. Winters moved to Los Angeles at age 16, then returned to New York to study acting at The New School.

Personal life

Winters have been married four times.

Her husbands were:

Winters married Gerry DeFord, a long-time companion with whom she had lived for 19 years, just hours before her death. Despite Winters' daughter's opposition to the marriage, actress Sally Kirkland performed the wedding ceremony for the two couples at Winters' deathbed. Kirkland, a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, also performed non-denominational last rites for Winters. Winters had a long-term relationship with Farley Granger that culminated in a long-term relationship (according to their respective autobiographies). In the 1951 film Behave Yourself, she appeared alongside him. Beyond This Place, A. J. Cronin's novel Beyond This Place, a 1957 television version, as well as a 'British equivalent of Beyond This Place,'s abridged version.

Winters, a Democrat, was a participant in the 1960 Democratic National Convention. On the night, she briefly visited the Selma Marchers briefly outside Montgomery, Alabama, before they marched into the state capitol. Shortly before Joplin died in 1970, she became friends with rock singer Janis Joplin. Joplin was invited by Winters to attend a class session at the Actors' Studio in Los Angeles. Joplin never did.

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Career

In The Night Before Christmas (1941), Winters made her Broadway debut in The Night Before Christmas (1941), which had a short run. She appeared in Rosalinda, a Die Fledermaus (1942–44) production that ran for 611 performances. When Winters first appeared on Oklahoma's stage, she received acclaim. Ado Annie is the product of Ado Annie.

She started working at Columbia for a long time and then moved to Los Angeles. In There's Something About a Soldier (1943), at Columbia, Winters' first film appearance was an uncredited bit. She had another small bit in What a Woman. (1943) But Sailor's Holiday (1944), a larger part of a B movie, played a greater part. The Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) was borrowed by the Producers Releasing Corporation for Knickerbocker Holiday (1944). She's a Soldier Too (1944), Dancing in Manhattan (1944), Together Tonight (1945), Escape in the Fog (1945), and The Battle Guardsman (1946). Winters appeared in MGM's Two Smart People (1946), as well as a collection of films for United Artists: Susie Steps Out (1946), Abie's Irish Rose (1947) and New Orleans (1947). She appeared in Living in a Big Way (1947) and Killer McCoy (1947) at MGM, The Gangster (1947) and Red River (1948). Brenda Martingale appeared in Siodmak's Cry of the City with Brenda Martingale.

Winters first made her name for herself in George Cukor's "A Double Life (1947). Universal, which linked Winters to a long-term deal, has sold it. She was a supporting role in Larceny (1948), but the Cry of the City (1948) was borrowed from Larceny (1948). Winters was second-billed in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949), with Howard Duff, and William Powell's Take One False Step (1949). Mabel in The Great Gatsby (1949) with Alan Ladd borrowed her to act Mabel. She appeared on Universal in Winchester, 73 (1950), opposite James Stewart, a major hit. In South Sea Sinner (1950), Universal gave Winters the top billing (1950). In Frenchie (1950), she costarred with Joel McCrea.

As a Blonde Bombshell type, Winters stepped out of Hollywood films but soon became aware of the character's limitations. In A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens, she claims to have shaved off her make-up before stepping out for the role of Alice Tripp, the factory girl. The general population was unaware of how serious a craftswoman Winters was, according to the Associated Press. "Although she was in demand as a character actress, Winters continued to study her craft." She attended Charles Laughton's Shakespeare lessons and worked at the Actors Studio as both a student and teacher." She studied at the Hollywood Studio Club and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with Marilyn Monroe. Winters' appearance in A Place in the Sun (1951), a departure from the sexpot photo that her studio, Universal Pictures, was grooming her for at the time, earned her first acclaim, earning her a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Award. He Ran All the Way (1951) with John Garfield and RKO for Behave Yourself. (1951) Farley Granger with Farley Granger. In The Raging Tide (1951) at Universal, Winters was top-billed. Bette Davis, a 1952-born woman, was loaned to 20th Century Fox for Telephone Call from a Stranger (1952).

Danny Wilson (1952) with Frank Sinatra and the Untamed Frontier (1952) with Joseph Cotten at Universal. She and Ricardo Montalbán joined MGM for My Man and I (1952). On stage in Los Angeles, she appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1953, winters took a long time for the birth of her first child. In 1954, she made her television debut in "Mantrap" for The Ford Television Theatre. She appeared in Executive Suite (1954) and Tennessee Champ (1954), top-billed in the latter. Winters returned to Universal in Saskatchewan (1954), photographing with Alan Ladd and Playgirl (1954) with Barry Sullivan. She appeared on a television version of Sorry, Wrong Number.

Vittorio Gassman, her husband, and winters went to Europe to make Mambo (1954). She fired in England at Cash on Delivery (1954) in England. In a version of The Women for Producers' Showcase, Winters appeared in a key role in I Am a Camera (1955), starring Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey. Charles Laughton's 1955 Night of the Hunter, with Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish, was even more popular. Winters, 19, was Jack Palance's leading lady in the I Died a Thousand Times (1955), then for RKO, she co-starred with Rory Calhoun in The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955). She was in The Big Knife (1955) for Robert Aldrich.

In 1955–1956, the Winters returned to Broadway in A Hatful of Rain, opposite Ben Gazzara and future husband Anthony Franciosa. It had a total of 398 appearances. Girls of Summer (1956-57) was produced by Jack Garfein and co-starred George Peppard, but only ran for 56 shows. On television, she relived her Double Life appearance in The Alcoa Hour in 1957. She appeared in episodes of The United States Steel Hour, Climax!, Wagon Train, Schlitz Playhouse, The DuPont Show of the Month, and Kraft Theatre.

She received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1960 for her role as Mrs. Van Daan in George Stevens' film adaptation of Anne Frank (1959). She donated her award statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Winters was in great demand as a character actor, appearing in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) and The Young Savages (1961). Charlotte Haze, the man-hungry woman in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962), received raves for her role as the man-hungry Charlotte Haze.

On The Night of the Irmo (1962), Bette Davis' role appeared, Winters returned to Broadway. Lewis John Carlino performed Off Broadway in Cages in 1963. In The Chapman Report (1962), she played an unfaithful housewife and she appeared in The Balcony (1964) and A House Is Not a Home (1964). She appeared on Wives and Lovers (1963) and episodes of shows including Alcoa Theatre, Ben Casey, and Thirty-Minute Theatre. Winters appeared in the Italian film Time of Indifference (1964) with Rod Steiger and Claudia Cardinale, and in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), George Stevens appeared, again for George Stevens.

In A Patch of Blue (1965), Winters received her second best Supporting Actress Award. Fay Estabrook, a fading, alcoholic former actress, appeared in Alfie (1966) and as the fading, alcoholic former starlet in Harper (1966). Saul Bellow's Under the Weather (1966) performed in Broadway for 12 performances. In Batman, Winters played "Ma Parker" the villain. She appeared in a TV version of The Three Sisters (1966) and appeared in Enter Laughing (1967) for Carl Reiner, Armchair Theatre, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (several episodes), The Scalphunters (1968) for Sydney Pollack, Wild in the Streets (1968), Arthur?

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(1969), and The Mad Room (1969).In Bloody Mama (1970), Winters appeared Ma Barker, a big hit for Roger Corman.

She had roles in How Do I Love Thee?

Carol Reed's (1970) and Flap (1970) were both flaw (1970). Minnie Marx, the Marx Brothers' mother of the Marx Brothers, appeared on Broadway in Minnie's Boys (1970), which ran for 80 performances. Winters produced One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger (1970–1971), which ran for seven performances; the cast included Robert De Niro and Diane Ladd. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? Helen, 1971, and what is the issue?

(1971), and two TV movies, Revenge!

A death of Innocence (1971) arose (1971). She appeared in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972) and was co-leading in Something to Hide (1972) with Peter Finch. She appeared in The Vamp for ITV's Sunday Night Theatre. She was the ill-fated Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Journey (1972), (for which she received her final Oscar nomination). She put on weight for the role and never got rid of it.

In The Devil's Daughter (1973) for television, Winters was top-billed. She appeared in Blume in Love (1973) for Paul Mazursky and Cleopatra Jones (1973), as well as leading roles in Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974) and The Sex Symbol (1974). Winters appeared in McCloud and Chico and the Man (1975), That Lucky Touch (1975), And The Innocent Child (1977) with Monica Vitti, Pete's Dragon (1977), The Initiation of Sarah (1978), King of the Gypsies (1978). She appeared in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, which only had a short run. Winters appeared in Gran bolo (1979), and in Elvis (1979) for television, she played Gladys Presley. She was in The Visitor (1979), The Magician of Lublin (1979) for Menahem Golan (1979), The French Atlantic Affair (1979) and an episode of ABC's Vega$ (1979), with Vega$ actress Robert Urich as the lead. Winters wrote the best-selling autobiography Shelley (1980): Also known as Shirley Sheriffshell introduced Shelley in 1989, The Middle of My Century.

Looping (1981), S.O.B., episodes of The Love Boat (1984), Ellie (1984), Alice in Wonderland (1985), and The Delta Force (1986). On stage, she appeared as The Gingerbread Lady. She appeared in Witchfire (1986) and was credited as executive producer. She was in Very Close Quarters (1986), Purple People Eater (1988), and An Unremarkable Life (1989).

Touch of a Stranger (1990), Stepping Out (1991) with Liza Minnelli, Weep No More, My Lady (1992), The Pickle (1993) for Mazursky (1994). Later audiences knew her mainly for her autobiographies and television appearances, in which she often played a comedic parody of her public persona. Winters played the title character's grandmother on the sitcom Roseanne in a recurring role in the 1990s. In Heavy (1995), she played a restauranteur and mother of an overweight cook; an aristocrat in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich; and an injured nursing home administrator in 1999's Gideon.

She was in comedies such as Backfire!

(1995) Jury Duty (1995), Mr. Munck (1995), and Raging Angels (1995). Winters appeared on the 1998 Academy Awards telecast, which included a salute to Oscar winners past and present.

Winters was rarely out of the news during her 50 years as a well-known celebrity," the Associated Press said. Her tumultuous marriages, her obsessions with well-known celebrities, her forays into politics, and feminist causes all kept her name before the public. She loved doing provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything." This culminated in my second stint as a writer. She was not a conventional beauty, but she claimed that her wit, wit, and "chutzpah" gave her a love life to rival Monroe's. William Holden, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, and Marlon Brando were among her suspected "conquests" that were allegedly "constitutional."

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