Oscar winner Shelley Winters dies at 85

[UrbScotty]

Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85.

Winters died of heart failure early Saturday at The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, her publicist Dale Olson said. She had been hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack.

The actress sustained her long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. Starting as a nightclub chorus girl, advanced to supporting roles in New York plays, then became famous as a Hollywood sexpot.

A devotee of the Actors Studio, she switched to serious roles as she matured. Her Oscars were for her portrayal of mothers. Still working well into her 70s, she had a recurring role as Roseanne's grandmother on the 1990s TV show "Roseanne."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060114/ap_on_en_mo/obit_winters

[warrior1]

1. Rest in peace.

[Kahuna]

2. Great actress, Always interesting to watch. RIP, Ms. Winters.

:cry:

[hlthe2b]

3. Thank you for your performances over the years, Ms. Winters

Rest in peace. You'll be remembered.

[joeybee12]

4. Great actress, fascinating life...

...gotta go rent "Lolita" again!

Rets in peace, Shirley.

[NYCGirl]

11. Great movie, probably her best performance. NT

[joeybee12]

17. It's been so long since I've seen that!

I recall her being wonderful, and I remember those glasses!

[NYCGirl]

18. One of Kubrick's best. And Peter Sellers and James Mason are great

in it, too.

Sue Lyons (Lolita) didn't have too much of a career after that, though. She worked a couple more years in A-list films, went to B movies and then disappeared.

[joeybee12]

19. I LOVE Stanley Kubrick...another disgrace that he never won an

Oscar!

Hate to think his last movie had Tom and Nicole in it!

Oh, but you could say that his last movie was that combo-crap with Spielberg--you know Stanley started it and Steven finished it. Can't recall the name--God, how awful was that!

[Missy Vixen]

21. "Eyes Wide Shut"

And it's two hours and something of my life I'm never getting back. I am so sorry that Kubrick died before the final cut of the movie; I really, really believe he would have recut it. I also believe that casting Tom Cruise in that movie was a horrible mistake. He and his ex had NO onscreen chemistry for what should have been an incendiary relationship between two people.

Okay, I'll shut up now...

Julie
don't EVEN get me started on "Artificial Intelligence: AI"...

[Love Bug]

42. A friend of mine agrees with you!

She saw "Eyes Wide Shut" and left the theatre wanting to shoot the piano player. The soundtrack almost drove her to homicide!

[NYCGirl]

22. The film you're trying to recall is "AI". I didn't think it was all THAT

awful — but, as usual, Spielberg took it about 30 minutes and a load of pathos too far, IMO.

I thought "Eyes Wide Shut" was a fascinating film. My favorite Kubrick films are "Lolita", "Paths of Glory" and "A Clockwork Orange." Of course I love "2001", too.

[joeybee12]

38. Yes--AI--couldn't recall the name...

...oooh, I really think it was bad!

2001 is quintessential Stanley. And I think Clockwork Orange is actually better than the book!

[mojavegreen]

33. Charlotte Haze

Shelley Winters did a most excellent and hilarious Charlotte Haze really. Mason as Humbert Humbert is acceptable, but sort of misses the satire; Miss Lyons was a bit ripe methinks.

[NYCGirl]

49. You're right about Sue Lyons...

but there's no way they could have made the movie if they'd stuck to the age Lolita was in the novel — 12 years old (for those who've never read it).

[LonelyLRLiberal]

5. Didn't she believe in reincarnation? If so,

here's to a new life for her. We'll miss her last reincarnation.

[UncleSepp]

6. Good luck with the sequel, Ms. Winters.

The show just might go on.

[NYCGirl]

9. Aren't you thinking of Shirley MacLaine? NT

[melody]

7. A long life for a great lady n/t

[UTUSN]

8. A beauty of a Democrat n/t

[Poll_Blind]

10. I always had a secret sex-crush on Her Awesomeness...

Now it can be told. I'll miss her.

PB

[NYCGirl]

13. For you:

[Poll_Blind]

46. Thank you! I liked the older, chubbier Winters more but she was...

...always a stunner! There's this scene in The Poseidon Adventure where she swims like a sexxxy little otter and it gives me the vapors, big-time!



Grrrrrrrr-ow!

PB

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Sad to hear. I loved her in the first "Night of the Hunter."

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. Her movies.......

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001859/

[AnneD]

15. I read her autobiography....

she and Marylin Monroe were roomies when they first started in their careers. She had more than her fair share of beaus (I envy her Sean Connery). She had a rich, full life.

[Punkingal]

25. I read it, too, and the second one...

A very interesting life, and she wrote about it in such an amusing way. And she was a great Democrat!!!!

[qanda]

16. Time for this to be moved to the LOUNGE

Surely if Lou Rawls was moved to the Lounge, then Shelly Winters deserves the exact same fate.

[Caoimhe]

20. RIP Shelley

I thought she was a great actress! She'll live in our memories and on the silver screen forever.

[LostinVA]

23. A very political lady, too

A life-long feminist and advocate of social justice.

A hell of a woman.

Enjoy The Summerlands, Ms. Winters.

[NYCGirl]

24. I had no idea she was political at all.

You learn something new every day!

[LostinVA]

27. Yup -- a quite a debater, from what I've read

Burt Lancaster (I think) said to her (I'm paraphrasing" that arguing with her was like trying to hold a swarm of bees. Every time he corralled one, another one would zip away. I remember coming home from school and watching her on MIke Douglas -- he had her one quite a bit. She would talk about feminism, civil rights, etc. She was just so damned cool.

[NYCGirl]

28. I had no idea about that side of her. BTW, it was Robert Mitchum who

said, "Shelley, arguing with you is like trying to hold a conversation with a swarm of bumblebees."

[LostinVA]

48. Ah, thank you -- I couldn't remember who or the exact quote

[auntAgonist]

26. may she rest in peace ..

more thoughts here..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4587649

[Innocent Smith]

29. RIP

I was just a little kid when I first saw her in "The Posidon Adventure"

[Miss Marmelstein]

30. My favorite part of article....

She also told of a dalliance with William Holden after a studio Christmas party. In a glamorous, real-life version of the play "Same Time, Next Year," they continued their annual Yuletide rendezvous for seven years.

She wrote that despite their intimacy, they continued to refer to each other as "Mr. Holden" and "Miss Winters," and when they met on the set of the 1981 film "S.O.B." she said, "Hello, Mr. Holden." He smiled and replied, "Shelley, after your book, I think you should call me Bill."

Rest in peace, Shelley.

[mojavegreen]

31. RIP, Miss Winters

While Shelley Winters is perhaps remembered for her roles in blockbusters such as the Poseidon Adventure, she did a marvelous performance of Charlotte Haze in Kubrick's version of Nabakov's novel "Lolita."

[wildhorses]

32. goodbye to a great lady

from a fan


you will be missed

[terrya]

34. She was more than "The Poseidon Adventure"

Check out, for instance, her performance in "Lolita". Shelley Winters was a fine actress.

I'm sorry to hear this.

[SeattleGirl]

35. She certainly was, but I have to say

her dying scene in "Poseidon Adventure" is my all-time favorite cheesy dying scene.

[Skittles]

45. that entire movie was cheesy

but DAMN entertaining :thumbsup:

[mucifer]

36. She was active in the civil rights movement. A strong Jewish woman

with a great sense of humor.

[kskiska]

37. I don't think anyone's mentioned "A Place in the Sun"

opposite Montgomery Clift. She played a whiny shopgirl who became pregnant and insisted that Clift marry her. He had higher aspirations - Elizabeth Taylor – and a chance to escape poverty. He dispatched Shelley in a rowboat accident, but went to the chair for it.

[Raine]

39. R-I-P Shelley

another one of the GREAT ones gone. :cry: I liked Winters so much that I named my Standard Poodle (Shelley) after her back in the 1970s.

[0007]

40. We'll all miss you Shelly. I'll never forget the film

" A Place in the Sun" 1951, the year I graduated from High School.

R.I.P.

[Jamastiene]

41. R.I.P. Ms. Winters. n/t

[Love Bug]

43. Aw, that's too bad. RIP, Shelly

I read her autobiography many years ago. She had a pretty interesting life. She was roommates with Marilyn Monroe in their early years and went on to have a years-long secret affair with William Holden.

[Skittles]

44. a wonderful actress and a wonderful person

one of my longtime favorites.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

47. RIP.

[NNadir]

50. Photo of Shelly as a young woman.

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