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The scion of a Jewish immigrant family was successful actress in comedies and musicals on Broadway and was closely associated with the Actors Studio. In films since 1943, she took on roles, and that fell through the occupation as a "classic film star" shining confidence already in the young Shelley Winters under whose normal framework, such as in the Western Lady Revolver (1950).
In her mature years, winter was a popular character actress who did not shrink from unusual acting challenge. In 1972, she was on in The Poseidon Adventure with an underwater scene, which they largely mastered without a double. For this role Winters earned one of her four Oscar nominations. She received the trophy twice, for her roles in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch (1965).
1972 Winter had a guest in Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, a noisy, and finally physical confrontation with Oliver Reed after he had given their opinion, misogynistic remarks made by him.
Shelley Winters was successively the seller Mack Paul Mayer of Chicago, the actor Vittorio Gassman, and married to actor Anthony Franciosa († 19 January 2006). His marriage to Gassman is her daughter Victoria.
You already discovered in the 1960s, the talent of Robert De Niro and promoted him. In 1967 she was the godmother of Laura Dern, which they also promoted. Shelley Winters has published several autobiographies, in which they presented information on the highly respected show business.
The actress, who on 14 Had suffered a heart attack in October 2005, died on 14 January 2006 at the age of 85 years of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Center in Beverly Hills.
Born Shirley Schrift
August 18, 1920
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died January 14, 2006 (aged 85)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1943–1999
Spouse(s) Paul Meyer (1942-1948)
Vittorio Gassman (1952-1954)
Anthony Franciosa (1957-1960)
Gerry DeFord (2006)
Filmography
1947: A Double Life (A Double Life) - Director: George Cukor
1948: Red River (Red River) - Director: Howard Hawks
1948: Cry of the city (Cry of the city) - Director: Robert Siodmak
1948: Fraud (Larceny) - Director: George Sherman
1949: Cocaine (Johnny stool pigeon) - Director: William Castle
1949: The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby), after the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1950: Revolver Lady (Frenchie) - Director: Louis King
1950: Winchester '73 (Winchester 73) - Director: Anthony Mann
1950: South Sea Vagabond (South Sea sinners) - Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
1951: Figures 7-73 (He ran all the way) - Directed by John Berry
1951: To all decided (Meet Danny Wilson) - Director: Joseph Pevney
1951: Gangster among themselves (Behave) - Directed by yourself: George Beck
1951: A Place in the Sun (A place in the sun) - Director: George Stevens
1952: The Day of Retribution (Untamed Frontier) - Directed by Hugo Fregonese
1952: A stranger calls (phone call from a stranger) - Directed by Jean Negulesco
1954: Mambo (Mambo) - Director: Robert Rossen, with Silvana Mangano
1954: Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan) - Director: Raoul Walsh
1954: millions of baby (To Dorothy, a son) - Director: Muriel Box
1954: The Schemers (executive suite) - Director: Robert Wise
1955: Hollywood Story (The big knife) - Director: Robert Aldrich
1955: The Night of the Hunter
1955: Hot Breath (The treasure of Pancho Villa) - Director: George Sherman
1955: Against all powers (I died a thousand times) - Director: Stuart Heisler
1959: Odds Against Tomorrow (Odds Against Tomorrow) - Director: Robert Wise
1959: The Diary of Anne Frank
1962: Lolita
1962: The Chapman Report (The Chapman report)
1965: A Patch (A patch of blue)
1968: Scalphunters (The Scalphunters)
1968: Wild in the Streets (Wild In The Streets)
1968: Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1969: The House of the bloody hands (The Mad Room)
1969: Bloody Mama "- Director: Roger Corman
1972: The Poseidon Adventure
1972: Who has lighted Aunt Ruth? "(Whoever slew Aunti Roo?) - Director: Curtis Harrington
1972: Amok (Something to hide) - Director: Alastair Reid
1976: The Tenant
1977: Pete's Dragon
1978: King of the Gypsies
1979: The Magician (The Magician of Lublin) - Director: Menahem Golan
1979: Elvis - The King - Director: John Carpenter
1980: Looping - Director: Walter Bock Mayer, Rolf Buhrmann
1981: SOB - Hollywood's last Audibles
1983: Over the Brooklyn Bridgde - Director: Menahem Golan
1983: Fanny Hill (Fanny Hill) - Director: Gerry O'Hara
1986: Delta Force (The Delta Force) - Director: Menahem Golan
1988: The little purple people eater (The purple people eater) - Director: Linda Shayne
1991: Stepping Out
1992: Rivals (Weep No More My Lady) - Director: Michel Andrieu
1993: Stage Fright - a cucumber conquered Hollywood (The pickle) - Director: Paul Mazursky
1994: Backfire - the Carry On Fire (Backfire!) - Director: A. Dean Bell
1994: Raging Angels (Raging angels) - Director: Chris Christiansen
1995: Hungry for love (Heavy) - Director: James Mangold
1995: Chaos! Junior's son (in the courtroom Jury Duty)
1995: The diabolical plan of crazy Mrs. Munck (Mrs. Munck) - Director: Diane Ladd
1991-1996: Roseanne (TV series)
1996: Portrait of a Lady (The Portrait of a Lady)
1998: Gideon - Director: Claudia Hoover
Awards
Oscar in 1959 for her role in The Diary of Anne Frank
Oscar in 1965 for her role in A Patch
