Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades.

Shelley Winters
Winters in 1951
Born	Shirley Schrift (1920-08-18)August 18, 1920 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	January 14, 2006(2006-01-14) (aged 85) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	The New School
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1936–2006
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Mack Paul Mayer ​ ( m. 1942; div. 1948) Vittorio Gassman ​ ( m. 1952; div. 1954) Anthony Franciosa ​ ( m. 1957; div. 1960) Gerry DeFord ( m. 2006)
Children	1

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). Other roles Winters include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977).

In addition to film, Winters also appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.

Early life

Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose (née Winter), a singer with the Muny, and Jonas Schrift, a designer of men's clothing.[1] Her parents were Jewish; her father emigrated from Austria, and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants.[2] Her parents were third cousins.[2]

Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when she was nine years old,[3] and she grew up partly in Queens, New York, as well.[4] As a young woman, she worked as a model.[5] Her sister Blanche Schrift later married George Boroff, who ran the Circle Theatre (now named El Centro Theatre) in Los Angeles. At age 16, Winters relocated to Los Angeles, California,[3] and later returned to New York to study acting at the New School.[6]

Career

Theatre

Winters made her Broadway debut in The Night Before Christmas (1941) which had a short run. She had a small part in Rosalinda, an adaptation of Die Fledermaus (1942–44) which ran for 611 performances.

Winters first received acclaim when she joined the cast of Oklahoma! as Ado Annie.[7]

Columbia

She received a long-term contract at Columbia and moved to Los Angeles. Winters' first film appearance was an uncredited bit in There's Something About a Soldier (1943) at Columbia. She had another small bit in What a Woman! (1943) but a bigger part in a B movie, Sailor's Holiday (1944).[8][9]

Winters was borrowed by the Producers Releasing Corporation for Knickerbocker Holiday (1944). Columbia put her small 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).[8]

Winters had bit parts in MGM's Two Smart People (1946), and a series of films for United Artists: Susie Steps Out (1946), Abie's Irish Rose (1946) and New Orleans (1947).

She had bit parts in Living in a Big Way (1947) and Killer McCoy (1947) at MGM, The Gangster (1947) for King Brothers Productions and Red River (1948).[7]

Breakthrough – A Double Life and Universal

Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane 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 had a supporting role in Larceny (1948) then 20th Century Fox borrowed her for Cry of the City (1948).

Winters was second-billed in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) with Howard Duff, and Take One False Step (1949) with William Powell.

Paramount borrowed her to play Mabel in The Great Gatsby (1949) with Alan Ladd. Back at Universal she was in Winchester 73 (1950), opposite James Stewart, a huge hit.

With James Stewart in Winchester 73 (1950)

Universal gave Winters top billing in South Sea Sinner (1950). She co starred with Joel McCrea in Frenchie (1950).[10][11]

A Place in the Sun

Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a Blonde Bombshell type, but quickly tired of the role's limitations. She claims to have washed off her make-up to audition for the role of Alice Tripp, the factory girl, in A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens, now a landmark American film. As the Associated Press reported, the general public was unaware of how serious a craftswoman Winters was. "Although she was in demand as a character actress, Winters continued to study her craft. She attended Charles Laughton's Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio, both as student and teacher." She studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with another newcomer, Marilyn Monroe.[12]

Her performance in A Place in the Sun (1951), a departure from the sexpot image that her studio, Universal Pictures, was grooming her for at the time, brought Winters her first acclaim, earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best 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.[13]

Winters was top billed in The Raging Tide (1951) at Universal. She was loaned to 20th Century Fox for Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), with Bette Davis.

At Universal she did Meet Danny Wilson (1952) with Frank Sinatra and Untamed Frontier (1952) with Joseph Cotten. She went to MGM for My Man and I (1952) with Ricardo Montalbán. She performed in A Streetcar Named Desire on stage in Los Angeles.[14]

Winters took off some time for the birth of her first child. She made her TV debut in "Mantrap" for The Ford Television Theatre in 1954. At MGM she did Executive Suite (1954) and Tennessee Champ (1954), top billed in the latter.

Winters returned to Universal to appear in Saskatchewan (1954), shot on location in Canada with Alan Ladd and Playgirl (1954) with Barry Sullivan. She also appeared in a TV version of Sorry, Wrong Number.[15]

Europe

Winters travelled to Europe to make Mambo (1954) with Vittorio Gassman who became her husband. She then shot Cash on Delivery (1954) in England.[16]

Winters performed in a version of The Women for Producers' Showcase then had a key role in I Am a Camera (1955) starring opposite Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey. Even more highly acclaimed was Charles Laughton's 1955 Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish.

At Warner Bros, Winters was Jack Palance's leading lady in I Died a Thousand Times (1955), then for RKO she co starred with Rory Calhoun in The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955). She was also in The Big Knife (1955) for Robert Aldrich.[17]

Return to Broadway

Winters returned to Broadway in A Hatful of Rain, in 1955–1956, opposite Ben Gazzara and future husband Anthony Franciosa. It ran for 398 performances.[18][19]

Girls of Summer (1956–57) was directed by Jack Garfein and co-starred George Peppard but only ran for 56 performances.

On TV she reprised her Double Life performance in The Alcoa Hour in 1957. She appeared in episodes of The United States Steel Hour, Climax!, Wagon Train, Schlitz Playhouse, The DuPont Show of the Month, and Kraft Theatre.

Diary of Anne Frank and Lolita

In 1960 she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mrs. Van Daan in George Stevens' film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). She donated her award statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.[20]

Winters was in much demand as a character actor now, getting good roles in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) and The Young Savages (1961). She received excellent reviews for her performance as the man-hungry Charlotte Haze in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962).

Winters returned to Broadway on The Night of the Iguana (1962), playing Bette Davis's role. She performed Off Broadway in Cages by Lewis John Carlino in 1963.

Many of her 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 a Home (1964). She also appeared in Wives and Lovers (1963) and episodes of shows such as Alcoa Theatre, Ben Casey, and Thirty-Minute Theatre.

Winters was also featured in the Italian film Time of Indifference (1964) with Rod Steiger and Claudia Cardinale, and had one of the many cameos in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), again for George Stevens.

A Patch of Blue

Winters won another Best Supporting Actress Oscar in A Patch of Blue (1965). She had good supporting parts opposite Michael Caine in Alfie (1966); and as the fading, alcoholic former starlet Fay Estabrook in Harper (1966).

She returned 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 of The Three Sisters (1966) and had roles in Enter Laughing (1967) for Carl Reiner, Armchair Theatre, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (several episodes), The Scalphunters (1968) for Sydney Pollack, Wild in the Streets (1968), Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968), Arthur? Arthur! (1969), and The Mad Room (1969).

Final starring roles

Winters played Ma Barker in Bloody Mama (1970) a big hit for Roger Corman. She had roles in How Do I Love Thee? (1970) and Flap (1970) for Carol Reed.

She returned to the stage to play Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers in the Broadway musical Minnie's Boys (1970), which ran for 80 performances. Winters wrote an evening of three one act plays, One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger (1970–71) which ran for seven performances; the cast included Robert De Niro and Diane Ladd.[21]

Winters had the lead in two horror 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 was in support in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972) and had a co lead in Something to Hide (1972) with Peter Finch. She starred in The Vamp for ITV Sunday Night Theatre.

In The Poseidon Adventure (1972), she was the ill-fated Belle Rosen (for which she received her final Oscar nomination). She put on weight for the role and never got rid of it.[18]

Winters was top billed in The Devil's Daughter (1973) for TV. She had a support role in Blume in Love (1973) for Paul Mazursky and Cleopatra Jones (1973) and lead parts in Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974) and The Sex Symbol (1974).[22]

Winters guest starred on shows like McCloud and Chico and the Man and could be 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) a horror film with John Huston, An Average Little 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 short run.

Winters could still command top billing on occasion, as in the Italian horror film Gran bollito (1979). She played Gladys Presley in Elvis (1979) for TV. She was in The Visitor (1979), City on Fire (1979), The Magician of Lublin (1979) for Menahem Golan, The French Atlantic Affair (1979) and an episode of Vega$.

In 1980 Winters published a best-selling autobiography, Shelley: Also Known As Shirley [24] She followed it up in 1989 with a second memoir, Shelley II: The Middle of My Century.

1980s

Winters' 1980s performances included Looping (1981), S.O.B., episodes of The Love Boat, Sex, Lies and Renaissance (1983), Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984) for Menahem Golan, Ellie (1984), Déjà Vu (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1985), and The Delta Force (1986) again for Golan. She did The Gingerbread Lady on stage.[25]

She had a starring role in Witchfire (1986) and was also credited as executive producer.[26]

She was in Very Close Quarters (1986), Purple People Eater (1988), and An Unremarkable Life (1989).[27]

1990s

Her final performances included 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).

Later audiences knew her primarily for her autobiographies and for her television work, in which she usually played a humorous parody of her public persona. In a recurring role in the 1990s, Winters played the title character's grandmother on the ABC sitcom Roseanne.

Her final film roles were supporting ones: she played a restaurant owner and mother of an overweight cook in Heavy (1995) with Liv Tyler and Debbie Harry for James Mangold, an aristocrat in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich, and an embittered nursing home administrator in 1999's Gideon.[28] She was also in comedies such as Backfire! (1995), Jury Duty (1995), and Mrs. Munck (1995), as well as Raging Angels (1995).

Winters made an appearance at the 1998 Academy Awards telecast, which featured a tribute to Oscar winners past and present including Gregory Peck, Claire Trevor, Jennifer Jones, and Luise Rainer.

As the Associated Press reported, "During her 50 years as a widely known personality, Winters was rarely out of the news. Her stormy marriages, her romances with famous stars, her forays into politics and feminist causes kept her name before the public. She delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything." That led to a second career as a writer. Though not a conventional beauty, she claimed that her acting, wit, and "chutzpah" gave her a love life to rival Monroe's. Her alleged "conquests" included William Holden, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, and Marlon Brando.[29]

Personal life

Winters in publicity photo, circa 1950

Winters was married four times. Her husbands were:

• Captain Mack Paul Mayer, whom she married on December 29, 1942 in Brooklyn;[30] they divorced in October 1948. Mayer was unable to deal with Shelley's "Hollywood lifestyle" and wanted a "traditional homemaker" for a wife. Winters wore his wedding ring up until her death, and kept their relationship very private.

• Vittorio Gassman, whom she married on April 28, 1952 in Juarez, Mexico;[31] they divorced on June 2, 1954. They had one child: Vittoria, born February 14, 1953, a physician who practices internal medicine at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was Winters' only child.

• Anthony Franciosa, whom she married on May 4, 1957; they divorced on November 18, 1960.[32]

• Gerry DeFord, whom she married on January 13, 2006.[33]

Hours before her death, Winters married long-time companion Gerry DeFord, with whom she had lived for 19 years. Though Winters' daughter objected to the marriage, the actress Sally Kirkland performed the wedding ceremony for the two at Winters' deathbed. Kirkland, a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, also performed non-denominational last rites for Winters.

Winters also had a much-publicized romance with Farley Granger that became a long-term friendship (according to their respective autobiographies). She starred with him in the 1951 film Behave Yourself!, as well as in a 1957 television production of A. J. Cronin's novel Beyond This Place.

Winters was a Democrat and attended the 1960 Democratic National Convention.[34][35] In 1965, she addressed the Selma marchers briefly outside Montgomery on the night before they marched into the state capitol.[36]

She became friendly with rock singer Janis Joplin shortly before Joplin died in 1970. Winters invited Joplin to sit in on a class session at the Actors' Studio at its Los Angeles location. Joplin never did.[37]

Death

Winters died at the age of 85 on January 14, 2006, of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Center of Beverly Hills; she had suffered a heart attack on October 14, 2005.[1] She is interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City.[38] Her third former husband, Anthony Franciosa, had a stroke on the same day she died, and died five days later.

Filmography

Uncredited in Tonight and Every Night (1945), Winters is behind Rita Hayworth.

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1943	There's Something About a Soldier	Norma	Uncredited
	What a Woman!	Secretary
1944	Sailor's Holiday	Gloria Flynn	Credited as Shelley Winter
	Knickerbocker Holiday	Ulda Tienhoven
	Cover Girl	Chorus Girl	Uncredited
	She's a Soldier Too	'Silver' Rankin
	Dancing in Manhattan	Margie
	Together Again	Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid
1945	Tonight and Every Night	Bubbles
	Escape in the Fog	Taxi Driver
	A Thousand and One Nights	Handmaiden
1946	The Fighting Guardsman	Nanette
	Two Smart People	Princess
	Susie Steps Out	Female Singer
	Abie's Irish Rose	Bridesmaid	Uncredited
1947	New Orleans	Ms. Holmbright
	Living in a Big Way	Junior League Girl
	The Gangster	Hazel – Cashier
	Killer McCoy	Waitress / Autograph Hound
	A Double Life	Pat Kroll
1948	Red River	Dance Hall Girl in Wagon Train	Uncredited
	Larceny	Tony
	Cry of the City	Brenda Martingale
1949	Take One False Step	Catherine Sykes
	The Great Gatsby	Myrtle Wilson
	Johnny Stool Pigeon	Terry Stewart
1950	Winchester '73	Lola Manners
	South Sea Sinner	Coral
	Frenchie	Frenchie Fontaine
1951	A Place in the Sun	Alice Tripp
	He Ran All the Way	Peggy Dobbs
	Behave Yourself!	Kate Denny
	The Raging Tide	Connie Thatcher
1952	Phone Call from a Stranger	Binky Gay
	Meet Danny Wilson	Joy Carroll
	Untamed Frontier	Jane Stevens
	My Man and I	Nancy
1954	Tennessee Champ	Sarah Wurble
	Saskatchewan	Grace Markey
	Executive Suite	Eva Bardeman
	Playgirl	Fran Davis
	Mambo	Toni Salermo
	To Dorothy a Son	Myrtle La Mar
1955	I Am a Camera	Natalia Landauer
	The Night of the Hunter	Willa Harper
	The Big Knife	Dixie Evans	Credited as Miss Shelley Winters
	The Treasure of Pancho Villa	Ruth Harris
	I Died a Thousand Times	Marie Garson
1959	The Diary of Anne Frank	Mrs. Petronella Van Daan	Won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Odds Against Tomorrow	Lorry
1960	Let No Man Write My Epitaph	Nellie Romano
1961	The Young Savages	Mary diPace
1962	Lolita	Charlotte Haze
	The Chapman Report	Sarah Garnell
1963	The Balcony	Madame Irma
	Wives and Lovers	Fran Cabrell
1964	A House Is Not a Home	Polly Adler
	Time of Indifference	Lisa
1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Healed Woman
	A Patch of Blue	Rose-Ann D'Arcey	Won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1966	Harper	Fay Estabrook
	Alfie	Ruby
	The Three Sisters	Natalya
1967	Enter Laughing	Mrs. Emma Kolowitz
1968	The Scalphunters	Kate
	Wild in the Streets	Mrs. Daphne Flatow
	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell	Shirley Newman
1969	The Mad Room	Mrs. Armstrong
	Arthur? Arthur!	Hester Green
1970	Bloody Mama	"Ma" Kate Barker
	How Do I Love Thee?	Lena Marvin
	Flap	Dorothy Bluebell
1971	What's the Matter with Helen?	Helen
	Revenge!	Amanda Hilton
1972	Something to Hide	Gabriella
	Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?	Mrs. Forrest
	The Poseidon Adventure	Belle Rosen
1973	Blume in Love	Mrs. Cramer
	Cleopatra Jones	Mommy
	The Stone Killer	Drunk Woman in Police Station	Cameo; uncredited
1975	Poor Pretty Eddie	Bertha
	That Lucky Touch	Diana Steedeman
	Journey Into Fear	Mrs. Mathews
	Diamonds	Zelda Shapiro
1976	La dahlia scarlatta	Catrina
	The Tenant	The Concierge
	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Faye Lapinsky
	Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino	Caterina
1977	Tentacles	Tillie Turner
	An Average Little Man	Amalia Vivaldi
	Pete's Dragon	Lena Gogan
	Black Journal	Lea
1978	King of the Gypsies	Queen Rachel
1979	The French Atlantic Affair	Helen Wabash
	The Visitor	Jane Phillips
	City on Fire	Nurse Andrea Harper
	The Magician of Lublin	Elzbieta
1981	S.O.B.	Eva Brown
	Looping	Carmen
1983	Fanny Hill	Mrs. Cole
1984	Over the Brooklyn Bridge	Becky
	Ellie	Cora Jackson
1985	Déjà Vu	Olga Nabokova
1986	The Delta Force	Edie Kaplan
	Witchfire	Lydia
	Very Close Quarters	Galina
1988	Purple People Eater	Rita
1989	An Unremarkable Life	Evelyn McEllany
1990	Touch of a Stranger	Ida
1991	Stepping Out	Mrs. Fraser
1992	Weep No More, My Lady	Vivian Morgan
1993	The Pickle	Yetta
1994	The Silence of the Hams	Mrs. Motel
1995	Heavy	Dolly Modino
	Backfire!	The Good Lieutenant
	Jury Duty	Mom
	Mrs. Munck	Aunt Monica
	Raging Angels	Grandma Ruth
1996	The Portrait of a Lady	Mrs. Touchett
1998	Gideon	Mrs. Willows
1999	La bomba	Prof. Summers
2006	A-List	Herself

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	The Ford Television Theatre	Sally Marland	Episode: "Mantrap"
1955	Producers' Showcase	Crystal Allen	Episode: "The Women"
1957	The Alcoa Hour	Pat Kroll	Episode: "A Double Life"
	The United States Steel Hour	Evvie	Episode: "Inspired Alibi"
	Wagon Train	Ruth Owens	Episode: "The Ruth Owens Story"
	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Mildred Corrigan	Episode: "Smarty"
	DuPont Show of the Month	Louisa Burt	Episode: "Beyond This Place"
1960	Play of the Week	Rose	Episode: A Piece of Blue Sky
1962	Alcoa Premiere	Meg Fletcher Millie Norman	Episode: "The Way From Darkness" Episode: "The Cake Baker"
1964	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Jenny Dworak	Episode: "Two is the Number"
1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Mrs. Bixby	Episode: "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"
	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Edith	Episode: "Back to Back"
1966	Batman	Ma Parker	Episode: "The Greatest Mother of Them All" Episode: "Ma Parker"
1967	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Clarry Golden	Episode: "Wipeout"
1968	Here's Lucy	Shelley Summers	Episode: "Lucy and Miss Shelley Winters"
1971	A Death of Innocence	Elizabeth Cameron	Television film
1972	Adventures of Nick Carter	Bess Tucker
1973	The Devil's Daughter	Lilith Malone
1974	Big Rose: Double Trouble	Rose Winters
	The Sex Symbol	Agathy Murphy
	McCloud	Thelma	Episode: "The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street"
1975	Chico and the Man	Shirley Schrift	Episode: "Ed Steps Out"
1976	Frosty's Winter Wonderland	Crystal (voice)	Television film
1978	Kojak	Evelyn McNeil	Episode: "The Captain's Brother's Wife"
	The Initiation of Sarah	Mrs. Erica Hunter	Television film
1979	Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July	Crystal (voice)
	Elvis	Gladys Presley
	Vega$	J.D. Fenton	Episode: "Macho Murders"
1982	The Love Boat	Teresa Rosselli	Season 6 – Episode: 1
1983	Parade of Stars	Sophie Tucker	Television film
1984	Hotel	Adele Ellsworth	Episode: "Trials"
	Hawaiian Heat	Florence Senkowski	Episode: "Andy's Mom"
1985	Alice in Wonderland	The Dodo Bird	Television film
1987	The Sleeping Beauty	Fairy
1991–1996	Roseanne	Nana Mary	10 episodes

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1941	The Night Before Christmas	Flora	Morosco Theatre, Broadway	[39]
1942	Rosalinda	Fifi	46th Street Theatre, Broadway
1943	Oklahoma!	Ado Annie	St. James Theatre, Broadway
1955	A Hatful of Rain	Celia Pope	Plymouth Theatre, Broadway
1956	Girls of Summer	Hilda Brookman	Longacre Theatre, Broadway
1961	The Night of the Iguana	Maxine Faulk	Royale Theatre, Broadway
1966	Under the Weather	Marcella Hilda Flora	Cort Theatre, Broadway
1970	Minnie's Boys	Minnie Marx	Imperial Theatre, Broadway
1978	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds	Beatrice	Biltmore Theatre, Broadway

Summer Stock plays

• The Taming of the Shrew (1947)
• Born Yesterday (1950)
• Wedding Breakfast (1955)
• A Piece of Blue Sky (1959)
• Two for the Seasaw (1960)
• The Country Girl (1961)
• A View from the Bridge (1961)
• Days of the Dancing (1964)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965)
• 84 Charing Cross Road (1983)

Radio

Year	Program	Episode/source
1953	Lux Radio Theatre	Phone Call from a Stranger[40]

Awards and Nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
1951	Best Actress	A Place in the Sun	Nominated	[41]
1959	Best Supporting Actress	The Diary of Anne Frank	Won
1965		A Patch of Blue	Won
1972		The Poseidon Adventure	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
1951	Best Actress – Drama Film	A Place in the Sun	Nominated	[41]
1959	Best Supporting Actress	The Diary of Anne Frank	Nominated
1962	Best Actress – Drama Film	Lolita	Nominated
1966	Best Supporting Actress	Alfie	Nominated
1972		The Poseidon Adventure	Won
1976		Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
1964	Outstanding Lead Actress	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Won	[41]
1966			Nominated
1974	Supporting Actress – Comedy/Drama Series	McCloud NBC Sunday Mystery Movie	Nominated

British Academy Film Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
1972	Best Supporting Actress	The Poseidon Adventure	Nominated	[41]
1977		Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Nominated

Bibliography

• Winters, Shelley (1980). Shelley: Also known as Shirley. Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-03638-6.
• Winters, Shelley (1989). Shelley II: The Middle of My Century. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-44210-1.
• Shelley: The Middle of My Century (audiobook; audio cassette)

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Further reading

• Shelley Winters at TVGuide.com
• 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 May 23, 2010.
• Bernstein, Adam (January 15, 2006). "Actress Shelley Winters, 85; Blond Bombshell to Oscar Winner". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
• "Oscar winner Shelley Winters dies at 85". The Boston Globe. January 15, 2006.
• Winters' Entry on the St. Louis Walk of Fame
• Shelley Winters in an exclusive interview about acting

External links

• Shelley Winters at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection
• Shelley Winters at the Internet Broadway Database
• Shelley Winters at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Shelley Winters on IMDb
• Shelley Winters at the TCM Movie Database