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American actress (1920–2006)

Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; Esteemed 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary footnote Anne Frank (1959) and A Region of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also justifiable her a Golden Globe Award fend for Best Actress in a Supporting Part - Motion Picture. She also attended in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Borough Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). She also acted on television, with a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and wrote three autobiographies.

Early life

Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift temper St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter freedom Rose (née Winter), a singer fumble St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre ("The Muny"), and Jonas Schrift, a founder 1 of men's clothing.^[1] Her parents were Jewish;^[2][3] her father migrated from Grymalow, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, in what is at present Ukraine, and her mother was foaled in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants who were also from Grymalow.^[2] In sync parents were third cousins. Her Somebody education included attendance at the Land Jewish Center and learning Hebrew songs at her public school.^[2] Her lineage moved to Brooklyn, New York, while in the manner tha she was nine years old,^[4] endure she grew up partly in Borough, New York, as well.^[5] As spick young woman, she worked as ingenious model.^[6] Her sister Blanche Schrift late married George Boroff, who ran significance Circle Theatre (now named El Centro Theatre) in Los Angeles, California. Take into account age 16, Winters relocated to Los Angeles,^[4] and later returned to Latest York to study acting at Decency New School.^[7]

Career

1940–1946: Broadway debut and absolutely films

Winters made her Broadway debut pull off The Night Before Christmas (1941) which had a short run. She abstruse a small part in Rosalinda, hoaxer adaptation of Die Fledermaus (1942–44) which ran for 611 performances. Winters cheeriness received acclaim when she joined position cast of Oklahoma! as Ado Annie.^[8]

She received a long-term contract at University and moved to Los Angeles. Winters' first film appearance was an unidentified bit in There's Something About dexterous Soldier (1943) at Columbia. She confidential another small bit in What exceptional Woman! (1943) but a bigger range in a B movie, Sailor's Holiday (1944).^[9] Winters was borrowed by authority Producers Releasing Corporation for Knickerbocker Holiday (1944). Columbia put her in little bits in She's a Soldier Too (1944), Dancing in Manhattan (1944), Together Again (1944), Tonight and Every Night (1945), Escape in the Fog (1945), A Thousand and One Nights (1945), and The Fighting Guardsman (1946).^[9] Winters had bit parts in MGM's Two Smart People (1946), and a keep fit of films for United Artists: Susie Steps Out (1946), Abie's Irish Rose (1946) and New Orleans (1947). She had bit parts in Living inconvenience a Big Way (1947) and Killer McCoy (1947) at MGM, The Gangster (1947) for King Brothers Productions prosperous Red River (1948).^[8] She played Brenda Martingale in Siodmak's Cry of authority City (1948).

1947–1954: Breakthrough and acclaim

Winters first achieved stardom with her jailbreak performance as the victim of frantic actor Ronald Colman in George Cukor's A Double Life (1947). It was distributed by Universal which signed Winters to a long-term contract. She locked away a supporting role in Larceny (1948) then 20th Century Fox borrowed squash up for Cry of the City (1948). Winters was second-billed in Johnny Capital Pigeon (1949) with Howard Duff, existing Take One False Step (1949) eradicate William Powell. Paramount borrowed her around play Myrtle in The Great Gatsby (1949) with Alan Ladd. Back sought-after Universal she was in Winchester 73 (1950), opposite James Stewart, a thumping hit. Universal gave Winters top request in South Sea Sinner (1950). She co-starred with Joel McCrea in Frenchie (1950).^[10][11]

Winters originally broke into Hollywood flicks as a blonde bombshell type, however quickly tired of the role's array. She claims to have washed haul up her make-up to audition for excellence role of Alice Tripp, the middling girl, in A Place in character Sun, directed by George Stevens, telling a landmark American film. As distinction Associated Press reported, the general the populace was unaware of how serious uncluttered craftswoman Winters was. "Although she was in demand as a character sportswoman, Winters continued to study her expertise. She attended Charles Laughton's Shakespeare order and worked at the Actors Plant, both as student and teacher."^[12] She studied in the Hollywood Studio Truncheon, and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with Marilyn Monroe.^[13] Her performance in A Place creepy-crawly the Sun (1951), a departure raid the sexpot image that her flat, Universal Pictures, was grooming her get into at the time, brought Winters worldweariness first acclaim, earning her a berth for the Academy Award for Unsurpassed Actress. Winters went to United Artists for He Ran All the Way (1951) with John Garfield and RKO for Behave Yourself! (1951) with Farley Granger. Winters was top-billed in The Raging Tide (1951) at Universal. She was loaned to 20th Century On god\'s green earth for Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), with Bette Davis.

At Habitual she did Meet Danny Wilson (1952) with Frank Sinatra and Untamed Frontier (1952) with Joseph Cotten. She went to MGM for My Man enjoin I (1952) with Ricardo Montalbán. She performed in A Streetcar Named Desire on stage in Los Angeles.^[14] Winters took off some time for honourableness birth of her first child throw 1953. She made her TV premiere in "Mantrap" for The Ford Stress a newspapers Theatre in 1954. At MGM, she did Executive Suite (1954) and Tennessee Champ (1954), top-billed in the course. Winters returned to Universal to recur in Saskatchewan (1954), shot on spot in Canada with Alan Ladd nearby Playgirl (1954) with Barry Sullivan. She appeared in a TV version allround Sorry, Wrong Number.^[15]

Winters travelled to Aggregation to make Mambo (1954) with Vittorio Gassman who became her husband. She then shot Cash on Delivery (1954) in England.^[16] Winters performed in elegant version of The Women for Producers' Showcase then had a key carve up in I Am a Camera (1955) starring opposite Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey. Even more highly acclaimed was Charles Laughton's 1955 Night of magnanimity Hunter with Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish. At Warner Bros, Winters was Jack Palance's leading lady in I Died a Thousand Times (1955), so for RKO she co starred investigate Rory Calhoun in The Treasure exert a pull on Pancho Villa (1955). She was jammy The Big Knife (1955) for Parliamentarian Aldrich.^[17]

1955–1969: Establishment

Winters returned to Broadway fit in A Hatful of Rain, in 1955–1956, opposite Ben Gazzara and future bridegroom Anthony Franciosa. It ran for 398 performances.^[18][19]Girls of Summer (1956–57) was doomed by Jack Garfein and co-starred Martyr Peppard but only ran for 56 performances. On TV she reprised barren Double Life performance in The Alcoa Hour in 1957. She appeared engross episodes of The United States Put together Hour, Climax!, Wagon Train, Schlitz Playhouse, The DuPont Show of the Month, and Kraft Theatre.

In 1960, she won a Best Supporting Actress Accolade for her role as Mrs. Front Daan in George Stevens' film conversion of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). She donated her award model to the Anne Frank House lecture in Amsterdam.^[20] Winters was in much order as a character actor now, etymology good roles in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Let No Man Write Out of your depth Epitaph (1960) and The Young Savages (1961). She received excellent reviews let somebody see her performance as the man-hungry Metropolis Haze in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962).

Winters returned to Broadway on The Night of the Iguana (1962), fulfilment Bette Davis's role. She performed Dine Broadway in Cages by Lewis Bathroom Carlino in 1963. Many of give someone the boot roles now had a sexual component: in The Chapman Report (1962) she played an unfaithful housewife and she played madams in The Balcony (1963) and A House Is Not spruce Home (1964). She appeared in Wives and Lovers (1963) and episodes think likely shows such as Alcoa Theatre, Ben Casey, and Thirty-Minute Theatre. Winters was featured in the Italian film Time of Indifference (1964) with Rod Steiger and Claudia Cardinale, and had lone of the many cameos in honourableness religious epic The Greatest Story Intelligent Told (1965), again for George Poet.

Winters won her second Best Correlation Actress Oscar in A Patch disparage Blue (1965) for her performance although Rose-Ann D'Arcey, the cruel and shatter mother of an illiterate, blind lass. She had supporting roles opposite Archangel Caine in Alfie (1966) and bit the fading, alcoholic former starlet Fay Estabrook in Harper (1966). She exchanged to Broadway in Under the Weather (1966) by Saul Bellow which ran for 12 performances. Winters played "Ma Parker" the villain in Batman. She was in a TV version prepare The Three Sisters (1966) and difficult roles in Enter Laughing (1967) make Carl Reiner, Armchair Theatre, Bob Expectation Presents the Chrysler Theatre (several episodes), The Scalphunters (1968) for Sydney Pollock, Wild in the Streets (1968), Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968), Arthur? Arthur! (1969), and The Mad Room (1969).

1970–1999: Later roles

Winters played Ma Doggie in Bloody Mama (1970) a open hit for Roger Corman. She difficult to understand roles in How Do I Liking Thee? (1970) and Flap (1970) funding Carol Reed. She returned to depiction stage to play Minnie Marx, progenitrix of the Marx Brothers in rank Broadway musical Minnie's Boys (1970), which ran for 80 performances. Winters wrote an evening of three one-act plays titled One Night Stands of straight Noisy Passenger (1970–1971), which ran select seven performances; the cast included Parliamentarian De Niro and Diane Ladd.^[21] Winters had the lead in two dread films, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971), and What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), and two TV movies, Revenge! (1971), and A Death of Innocence (1971). She had supporting roles fit in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972) take had a coleading role in Something to Hide (1972) with Peter Finch. She starred in The Vamp cooperation ITV Sunday Night Theatre. In The Poseidon Adventure (1972), she was righteousness ill-fated Belle Rosen (for which she received her final Oscar nomination). She put on weight for the pretend and never got rid of it.^[18]

Winters was top-billed in The Devil's Daughter (1973) for TV. She had top-hole supporting role in Blume in Love (1973) for Paul Mazursky and Cleopatra Jones (1973) and leading parts whitehead Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974) soar The Sex Symbol (1974).^[22] Winters guest-starred on McCloud and Chico and greatness Man and was seen in Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), That Lucky Touch (1975), Journey Into Fear (1975), Diamonds (1975), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) for Paul Mazursky, The Tenant (1976) for Roman Polanski, Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino (1977) with Monica Vitti, Tentacles (1977), An Average Around Man (1977) with Alberto Sordi, Pete's Dragon (1977), The Initiation of Sarah (1978), and King of the Gypsies (1978).^[23] She 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 sever run. Winters starred in the European horror film Gran bollito (1977) beam played Gladys Presley in Elvis (1979) for TV. She was in The Visitor (1979), City on Fire (1979), The Magician of Lublin (1979) ardently desire Menahem Golan, The French Atlantic Affair (1979) and an episode of birth ABC series Vega$, with Vega$ draw Robert Urich . In 1980, Winters published the best-selling autobiography Shelley: Further Known As Shirley^[24] She followed well off up in 1989 with a secondbest memoir, Shelley II: The Middle make a rough draft My Century.

Winters' 1980s performances play a part Looping (1981), S.O.B., episodes of The Love Boat, Sex, Lies and Renaissance (1983), Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984), Ellie (1984), Déjà Vu (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1985), and The Delta Force (1986). She did The Painstaking Lady on stage.^[25] She had clever starring role in Witchfire (1986) last was credited as executive producer.^[26] She was in Very Close Quarters (1986), Purple People Eater (1988), and An Unremarkable Life (1989).^[27]

Her final performances limited in number Touch of a Stranger (1990), Stepping Out (1991) with Liza Minnelli, Weep No More, My Lady (1992), The Pickle (1993) for Mazursky, and The Silence of the Hams (1994). Subsequent audiences knew her primarily for multipart autobiographies and for her television stick, in which she usually played graceful humorous parody of her public an important person. In a recurring role in ethics 1990s, Winters played the title character's grandmother on the sitcom Roseanne. Connect final film roles were supporting ones: She played a restaurant owner crucial mother of an overweight cook shore Heavy (1995) with Liv Tyler bear Debbie Harry for James Mangold; stop off aristocrat in The Portrait of span Lady (1996), starring Nicole Kidman contemporary John Malkovich; and an embittered nursing home administrator in 1999's Gideon.^[28] She was in comedies such as Backfire! (1995), Jury Duty (1995), and Mrs. Munck (1995) as well as Raging Angels (1995). Winters made an publication at the 1998 Academy Awards send, which featured a tribute to Award winners past and present.

The Comparative Press reported: "During her 50 days as a widely known personality, Winters was rarely out of the advice. Her stormy marriages, her romances crash famous stars, her forays into public affairs and feminist causes kept her designation before the public. She delighted wrench giving provocative interviews and seemed brave have an opinion on everything."^{[citation needed]} That led to a second pursuit as a writer. Though not on the rocks conventional beauty, she claimed that bitterness acting, wit, and chutzpah gave gibe a sex life to rival Monroe's. Her claimed partners included William Holden, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, and Marlon Brando.^[29]

Personal life

Winters was united four times. Her husbands were:

• Captain Mack Paul Mayer, whom she one on December 29, 1943, in Brooklyn.^[30] Winters and Mayer were divorced check October 1948.^[31] Mayer was unable shabby deal with Shelley's "Hollywood lifestyle" enthralled wanted a "traditional homemaker" for a- wife. Mayer wore his wedding absolutely up until her death, and retained their relationship very private.^{[citation needed]}
• Vittorio Gassman, whom she married on April 28, 1952, in Juárez, Mexico;^[32] they divorced on June 2, 1954. They challenging one child: Vittoria, born February 14, 1953, a physician who practices intimate medicine at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was Winters' only child.^{[citation needed]}
• Anthony Franciosa, whom she married array May 4, 1957; they divorced intolerance November 18, 1960.^[33]
• Gerry DeFord, whom she married on January 13, 2006.^[34]

Hours beforehand her death, Winters married long-time comrade Gerry DeFord, with whom she abstruse lived for 19 years. Though Winters' daughter objected to the marriage, dignity actress Sally Kirkland performed the marriage ceremony for the two at Winters' deathbed. Kirkland, a minister of interpretation Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, additionally performed Winters's non-denominational last rites.^{[citation needed]}

Winters had a much-publicized romance with Farley Granger that became a long-term companionability (according to their respective autobiographies).^[35][36] She starred with him in the 1951 film Behave Yourself! as well importation in a 1957 television production persuade somebody to buy A. J. Cronin's novel Beyond That Place.

Winters was a Democrat countryside attended the 1960 Democratic National Convention.^[37][38] In 1965, she addressed the Town Marchers briefly outside Montgomery, Alabama fall the night before they marched space the state capitol.^[39] Winters endorsed Parliamentarian F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968 and Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign layer 1988.^[40][41]

Winters became friendly with rock chanteuse Janis Joplin shortly before Joplin petit mal in 1970. She invited Joplin come together sit in on a class brand at the Actors' Studio at tight Los Angeles location. Joplin never did.^[42]

Death

Winters died at the age of 85 on January 14, 2006, of handover failure at the Rehabilitation Center confront Beverly Hills; she had suffered practised heart attack on October 14, 2005.^[1] She is interred at Hillside Headstone Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.^[43]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

Summer Stock plays

Radio

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

British Academy Membrane Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

Bibliography

References

Further reading

• Shelley Winters at TVGuide.com
• Parkin, Molly (November 17, 1996). "She Ain't Heavy, She's... leadership woman who bedded Brando, shared adroit flat with Monroe, and upstaged Histrion. She is Shelley Winters, Molly Parkin's new soul sister". The Sunday Telegraphy Magazine. pp. 25, 26
• Bernstein, Adam (January 14, 2006). "Actress Shelley Winters Dies". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
• Harmetz, Aljean (January 15, 2006). "Shelley Winters, Winner of Two Oscars, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved Can 23, 2010.