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A great actress. I watched her the other week in Bloody Mama. Never gave a bad performance. R.I.P. Shelley.
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Marky B
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Oscar winner Shelley Winters dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4613660.stm
Shelly starred in several British films, notably 'Alfie' (1965)
Two-time Oscar winner Shelley Winters has died of heart failure at the age of 85, her publicist Dale Olson has said.
She died at a Beverly Hills nursing home early on Saturday, having suffered a heart attack in October.
Winters, who won Oscars for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, was best known for her role in 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.
She was equally famous for her romances with some of Hollywood's leading men including Errol Flynn and Clark Gable.
Winters' career spans six decades, beginning with an uncredited part in 1943's What a Woman!
A roommate of the young Marilyn Monroe, her ex-husbands include the actors Anthony Franciosa and Vittorio Gassman, with whom she had a daughter Vittoria.
Her other films include Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, Alfie with Michael Caine and The Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum.
Her last film appearance was in 1999's La Bomba.
But she continued working well into her 70s, starring as Roseanne's grandmother on the 1990s TV programme "Roseanne".
In the 1980s Winters wrote two autobiographies "Shelley, Also Known as Shirley" and "Shelley II: The Middle of My Century" in which she detailed her relationships with a string of Hollywood A-listers including, Marlon Brando, Burt Lancaster and William Holden.
The books became bestsellers, but her trademark frankness meant that talk show hosts "only want to know about my love affairs," Winters later said.
A great actress. I watched her the other week in Bloody Mama. Never gave a bad performance. R.I.P. Shelley.
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Marky B
One of my favs of all time.
Aitch,
Sad and coincidental that her ex-husband, the actor Anthony Franciosa, also died just 5 days later. There are more details on the "Dead or Alive" website.
Two talented people who will be greatly missed.
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Phil Turner
That is very sad news. I was a big fan of Tony Franciosa. I'd add him to the Have All The Greats Gone Now? thread if he was British. He did some great work in the 1950s (Career, The Long Hot Summer, Hatful of Rain, etc.) and, being a fan of the 1960s, I remember him fondly in such films as The Swinger, The Pleasure Seekers, Fathom, The Sweet Ride and A Man Called Gannon.(Phil Turner @ Jan 29 2006, 10:13 AM)
Sad and coincidental that her ex-husband, the actor Anthony Franciosa, also died just 5 days later. There are more details on the "Dead or Alive" website.
Two talented people who will be greatly missed.
Regards
Phil Turner
It's always a blow to hear of the passing of someone you remember well from your formative years. End of an era and all that.
I wasn't a particular fan of Shelley Winters but I still lament her passing for nostalgic reasons.
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