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Jan 14, 2006 · Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, and twice won Academy Awards as a supporting actress, has died. She was 85. Winters died of heart ...
Jan 14, 2006 · Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in 1922 in East St. Louis, Illinois, where her father Johan Schrift was a patternmaker and salesman for a large men's clothing manufacturer. Her mother Rose Winter Schrift , who once sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, made certain that Shelley and her sister Blanche Schrift had music lessons, despite the family's meager budget.
May 10, 2006 · Shelley Winters: Queen of the watery demise. Herewith, a belated salute, on the occasion of the sailing of the revamped " Poseidon ," to the late, great Shelley Winters. At a party of movie geeks on a rainy Seattle night -- the evening of her death (January 14, 2006) -- I hoisted a scotch in her memory and toasted some of her greatest moments ...
Jan 14, 2006 · Ever vocal on social and political matters, Winters was a favored guest on television talk shows, and she demonstrated her frankness in two autobiographies: "Shelley, Also Known as Shirley" (1980 ...
Shelley Winters was a two-time ‘Academy Award’ winning American actress whose career span of over five decades saw her performing in films, television and stage with equal élan. She began her acting career onstage in the late 1930s and got her big break with Max Reinhardt directed Broadway play ‘Rosalinda’.
Shelley Winters (alk. Shelley Schrift , 18. elokuuta 1920 Saint Louis , Illinois , Yhdysvallat – 14. tammikuuta 2006 ) oli juutalaista syntyperää oleva yhdysvaltalainen näyttelijä , joka palkittiin kahdesti sivuosa- Oscar-palkinnolla .
