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Jonas Schrift, son of Nussin (Nathan) Schrift (the son of Hirsch Schrift and Keyle Bornfeld) and Chana Schonholz, emigrated from Grymalow, Austria, marrying his third cousin Rose Winter in America. They lived in St. Louis, Missouri at that time. He and Rose had two daughters, Blanche and Shirley. Jonas moved the...
- Culver City, California
- December 7, 1890
- Austria
Dec 31, 2020 · Actress Shelley Winters was born in 1920 to Rose Winter and Jonas Schrift, who immigrated to America from Austria in 1907 on the ship Pennsylvania. His entry paperwork gave his
- Early life
- Acting career
- Film
- Later career
- Television
- Later years
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. Her father moved the family to Brooklyn when she was still young so ...
Within a short time, Shelley pushed ahead for a career out west. Hollywood proved to be a tough road. Toiling in bit roles for years, many of her scenes were excised altogether during her early days. Obscurely used in such movies as What a Woman! (1943), The Racket Man (1944), Cover Girl (1944) and Tonight and Every Night (1945), her breakthrough d...
As a tarnished glamour girl and symbol of working class vulgarity in Hollywood, Shelley was about to be written off in pictures altogether when one of her finest movie roles arrived on her front porch. Her best hard luck girl storyboard showed up in the form of depressed, frumpy-looking Alice Tripp, a factory girl seduced and abandoned by wanderlus...
By the late 1950s Shelley had started growing in girth and wisely eased into colorful character supports. The switch paid off. After a sterling performance as the ill-fated wife of sadistic killer Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), she scored big in the Oscar department when she won \\"Best Supporting Actress\\" for ...
In the 1970s and 1980s, Shelley developed into an oddly-distracted personality on TV, making countless talk show appearances and becoming quite the raconteur and incessant name dropper with her juicy Hollywood behind-the-scenes tales. Candid would be an understatement when she published two scintillating tell-all autobiographies that reached the be...
Thrice divorced (her first husband was a WWII captain, while her only child, Vittoria, came from her second union to Italian stallion Gassman), Shelley remained footloose and fancy free after finally breaking it off with the volatile Franciosa in 1960. Her stormy marriages and notorious affairs, not to mention her ambitious forays into politics and...
- August 18, 1920
- January 14, 2006
Jun 23, 2021 · Winters’ father, Jonas Schrift, also emigrated from Grymalow, marrying his third cousin Rose in America. When Shirley needed a stage name, she took her mother’s maiden name. Later, Universal Studios added the s at the end. The Schrifts moved to New York in the late 1920s, as Jonas Schrift attempted to work his way up into the middle class.
An indictment charging arson in the second degree was returned against Jonas Schrift of 90-38 of 170th street, Jamaica. Schrift is alledged to have set fire to his haberdashery store at 171-03 Jamaica avenue, Jamaica on the night of November 29, last, after insuring his stock and fixtures for $ 10,000.
- Male
- August 16, 1955
- Rose (Winter) Schrift
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. Her parents were Jewish; her father emigrated from Austria, and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants. Her parents were third cousins.
She was born Shirley Schrift on August 18, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri, to the Jewish family of Jonas Schrift and Rose Winter Schrift. Her father was an Austrian immigrant who was by profession a tailor’s cutter for men’s clothing and her mother, born in Missouri to Austrian immigrants, was an aspiring opera singer.
