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Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades.She 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), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a ...
Untamed Frontier is a 1952 American technicolor Western film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters and Scott Brady. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film, featuring the working title of The Untamed featured the feature film debuts of Suzan Ball and Fess Parker. [2]
A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed and written by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America.
Lolita is a 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film [9] directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.. The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who writes as "Humbert" and has hebephilia.
It won three Academy Awards in 1960, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Shelley Winters later donated her Oscar to the Anne Frank Museum. In 2006, it was honored as the eighteenth most inspiring American film on the list AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers.
Obliterated follows an elite squad of operatives, led by Ava Winters (Shelley Hennig) and Chad McKnight (Nick Zano), who thwart a terrorist threat and then celebrate in style, hitting Las Vegas to ...
In casting the part of Dolly, Mangold sought golden age Hollywood actress Shelley Winters, who was in her mid-70s at the time. Mangold tracked down the address to her Manhattan apartment and sent her the film script along with a letter stating his admiration of her work. Within two days, Winters replied to Mangold and was subsequently cast. [11]
That would've given me a chance to work with Stanley Kubrick, James Mason and Shelley Winters and play that marvelous part. This was a nymphet and a nymphet really didn't gel with the Disney image."