Shelley Winters won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and received nominations for A Place in the Sun and The Poseidon Adventure.
66 Facts About Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters appeared in A Double Life, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita, Alfie, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Pete's Dragon.
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Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose, a singer with St Louis Municipal Opera Theatre, and Jonas Schrift, a designer of men's clothing.
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Shelley Winters's parents were Jewish; her father migrated from Grymalow, Austria-Hungary, in what is Ukraine, and her mother was born in St Louis to Austrian immigrants who were from Grymalow.
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Shelley Winters's family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when she was nine years old, and she grew up partly in Queens, New York, as well.
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At age 16, Shelley Winters relocated to Los Angeles, and later returned to New York to study acting at The New School.
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Shelley Winters made her Broadway debut in The Night Before Christmas which had a short run.
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Shelley Winters had a small part in Rosalinda, an adaptation of Die Fledermaus which ran for 611 performances.
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Shelley Winters received a long-term contract at Columbia and moved to Los Angeles.
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Shelley Winters' first film appearance was an uncredited bit in There's Something About a Soldier at Columbia.
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Shelley Winters was borrowed by the Producers Releasing Corporation for Knickerbocker Holiday.
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Shelley Winters had bit parts in MGM's Two Smart People, and a series of films for United Artists: Susie Steps Out, Abie's Irish Rose and New Orleans.
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Shelley Winters had bit parts in Living in a Big Way and Killer McCoy at MGM, The Gangster for King Brothers Productions and Red River.
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Shelley Winters played Brenda Martingale in Siodmak's Cry of the City.
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Shelley Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukor's A Double Life.
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Shelley Winters had a supporting role in Larceny then 20th Century Fox borrowed her for Cry of the City.
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Shelley Winters was second-billed in Johnny Stool Pigeon with Howard Duff, and Take One False Step with William Powell.
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Universal gave Shelley Winters top billing in South Sea Sinner.
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Shelley Winters co starred with Joel McCrea in Frenchie.
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Shelley Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a Blonde Bombshell type, but quickly tired of the role's limitations.
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Shelley Winters attended Charles Laughton's Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio, both as student and teacher.
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Shelley Winters was top-billed in The Raging Tide at Universal.
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Shelley Winters was loaned to 20th Century Fox for Phone Call from a Stranger, with Bette Davis.
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Shelley Winters went to MGM for My Man and I with Ricardo Montalban.
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Shelley Winters performed in A Streetcar Named Desire on stage in Los Angeles.
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Shelley Winters took off some time for the birth of her first child in 1953.
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Shelley Winters made her TV debut in "Mantrap" for The Ford Television Theatre in 1954.
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Shelley Winters returned to Universal to appear in Saskatchewan, shot on location in Canada with Alan Ladd and Playgirl with Barry Sullivan.
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Shelley Winters appeared in a TV version of Sorry, Wrong Number.
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Shelley Winters travelled to Europe to make Mambo with Vittorio Gassman who became her husband.
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Shelley Winters then shot Cash on Delivery in England.
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Shelley Winters performed in a version of The Women for Producers' Showcase then had a key role in I Am a Camera starring opposite Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey.
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At Warner Bros, Shelley Winters was Jack Palance's leading lady in I Died a Thousand Times, then for RKO she co starred with Rory Calhoun in The Treasure of Pancho Villa.
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Shelley Winters was in The Big Knife for Robert Aldrich.
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Shelley Winters donated her award statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
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Shelley Winters was in much demand as a character actor now, getting good roles in Odds Against Tomorrow, Let No Man Write My Epitaph and The Young Savages.
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Shelley Winters received excellent reviews for her performance as the man-hungry Charlotte Haze in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.
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Shelley Winters returned to Broadway on The Night of the Iguana, playing Bette Davis's role.
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Shelley Winters performed Off Broadway in Cages by Lewis John Carlino in 1963.
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Shelley Winters appeared in Wives and Lovers and episodes of shows such as Alcoa Theatre, Ben Casey, and Thirty-Minute Theatre.
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Shelley Winters was featured in the Italian film Time of Indifference with Rod Steiger and Claudia Cardinale, and had one of the many cameos in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told, again for George Stevens.
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Shelley Winters won another Best Supporting Actress Oscar in A Patch of Blue.
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Shelley Winters had supporting roles opposite Michael Caine in Alfie and as the fading, alcoholic former starlet Fay Estabrook in Harper.
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Shelley Winters returned to Broadway in Under the Weather by Saul Bellow which ran for 12 performances.
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Shelley Winters played Ma Barker in Bloody Mama a big hit for Roger Corman.
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Shelley Winters returned to the stage to play Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers in the Broadway musical Minnie's Boys, which ran for 80 performances.
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Shelley Winters wrote an evening of three one act plays titled One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger, which ran for seven performances; the cast included Robert De Niro and Diane Ladd.
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Shelley Winters had supporting roles in Adventures of Nick Carter and had a coleading role in Something to Hide with Peter Finch.
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Shelley Winters starred in The Vamp for ITV Sunday Night Theatre.
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Shelley Winters put on weight for the role and never got rid of it.
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Shelley Winters was top-billed in The Devil's Daughter for TV.
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Shelley Winters guest-starred on McCloud and Chico and the Man and was seen in Poor Pretty Eddie, That Lucky Touch, Journey Into Fear, Diamonds, Next Stop, Greenwich Village for Paul Mazursky, The Tenant for Roman Polanski, Mimi Bluette.
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Shelley Winters starred in a 1978 Broadway production of Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, which only had a short run.
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Shelley Winters starred in the Italian horror film Gran bollito and played Gladys Presley in Elvis for TV.
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Shelley Winters was in The Visitor, City on Fire, The Magician of Lublin for Menahem Golan, The French Atlantic Affair and an episode of the ABC series Vega$, with Vega$ star Robert Urich.
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Shelley Winters had a starring role in Witchfire and was credited as executive producer.
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Shelley Winters was in Very Close Quarters, Purple People Eater, and An Unremarkable Life.
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Shelley Winters made an appearance at the 1998 Academy Awards telecast, which featured a tribute to Oscar winners past and present.
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Shelley Winters delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything.
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Shelley Winters's alleged "conquests" included William Holden, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, and Marlon Brando.
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Hours before her death, Shelley Winters married long-time companion Gerry DeFord, with whom she had lived for 19 years.
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Shelley Winters had a much-publicized romance with Farley Granger that became a long-term friendship.
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Shelley Winters was a Democrat and attended the 1960 Democratic National Convention.
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Shelley Winters became friendly with rock singer Janis Joplin shortly before Joplin died in 1970.
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Shelley Winters invited Joplin to sit in on a class session at the Actors' Studio at its Los Angeles location.
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Shelley Winters is interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.