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Shelley Winters. Actress: The Poseidon Adventure. Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mother, Rose Winter, was born in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her father, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. She had one sibling, a sister, Blanche. Her father moved the ...
Mar 29, 2023 · “When I come to a fork in the road, I try to take both,” the irrepressible Shelley Winters writes in her bestselling 1980 memoir, Shelley: Also Known as Shirley. She wasn’t joking.
Jan 15, 2006 · Shelley Winters, who once described her life as a ''rocky road out of the Brooklyn ghetto to one New York apartment, two Oscars, three California houses, four hit plays, five Impressionist ...
Jan 14, 2006 · 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...
Jan 14, 2006 · 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 ...
Jan 15, 2006 · LOS ANGELES — Shelley Winters, 85, a blond bombshell of the 1940s who evolved into a character actress best known for her roles as victims, shrews and matrons, died Saturday.
Jan 14, 2006 · Shelley Winters, the outspoken actress who won Oscars for her work in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), has died of heart failure at the age of 85.. Her publicist in ...
