Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1920) is an American actress. Born Shirley Schrift in East St. Louis, Illinois, she is known to today's audiences as a large figure of comedians' scathing humor, but when she began her career, she was known as a voluptuous beauty. She is said to have had an affair with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy.
Her first movie was What a Woman! in 1943. By 1959, she had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue in 1965. Notable later roles included her turn as gorgeous, alcoholic former starlet Fay Estabrook in "Harper" (1966) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as the ill-fated Belle Rosen, for which she received her final Oscar nomination.
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Academy Awards and nominations
- 1973 - Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Poseidon Adventure
- 1966 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of Blue
- 1960 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Diary of Anne Frank
- 1952 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street.
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Filmography
- What a Woman! (1943)
- The Racket Man (1944)
- Sailor's Holiday (1944)
- Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
- Cover Girl (1944)
- She's a Soldier Too (1944)
- Together Again (1944)
- Tonight and Every Night (1945)
- Dancing in Manhattan (1945)
- Escape in the Fog (1945)
- A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
- The Fighting Guardsman (1946)
- Two Smart People (1946)
- New Orleans (1947)
- Living in a Big Way (1947)
- The Gangster (1947)
- A Double Life (1947)
- Killer McCoy (1947)
- Red River (1948)
- Larceny (1948)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- South Sea Sinner (1949)
- Take One False Step (1949)
- The Great Gatsby (1949)
- Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
- Winchester '73 (1950)
- Frenchie (1950)
- The Raging Tide (1951)
- He Ran All the Way (1951)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Behave Yourself! (1951)
- Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
- Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
- Untamed Frontier (1952)
- My Man and I (1952)
- Cash on Delivery (1954)
- Tennessee Champ (1954)
- Saskatchewan (1954)
- Playgirl (1954)
- Executive Suite (1954)
- Mambo (1954)
- I Am a Camera (1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
- The Big Knife (1955)
- I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
- Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- Lolita (1962)
- The Chapman Report (1962)
- The Balcony (1963)
- Wives and Lovers (1963)
- Time of Indifference (1964)
- A House Is Not a Home (1964)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
- A Patch of Blue (1965)
- The Three Sisters (1966)
- Harper (1966)
- Alfie (1966)
- Enter Laughing (1967)
- The Scalphunters (1968)
- Wild in the Streets (1968)
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
- Arthur! Arthur! (1969)
- The Mad Room (1969)
- Bloody Mama (1970)
- How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
- Flap (1970)
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
- What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
- Something to Hide (1972)
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Blume in Love (1973)
- Cleopatra Jones (1973)
- Poor Pretty Eddy (1975)
- Journey Into Fear (1975)
- Diamonds (1975)
- That Lucky Touch (1975)
- The Scarlet Dahila (1976)
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
- The Tenant (1976)
- Mimi Bluette... Flower of My Garden (1977)
- Black Journal (1977)
- Tentacles (1977)
- An Average Little Man (1977)
- Pete's Dragon (1977)
- King of the Gypsies (1978)
- The Visitor (1979)
- City on Fire (1979)
- The Magician of Lublin (1979)
- S.O.B. (1981)
- Looping (1981)
- Fanny Hill (1983)
- Ellie (1984)
- Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
- Deja Vu (1985)
- Witchfire (1986)
- Very Close Quarters (1986)
- The Delta Force (1986)
- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) (documentary)
- Purple People Eater (1988)
- An Unremarkable Life (1989)
- Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990) (documentary)
- Touch of a Stranger (1990)
- Stepping Out (1991)
- The Pickle (1993)
- A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
- The Silence of the Hams (1994)
- Heavy (1995)
- Backfire! (1995)
- Jury Duty (1995)
- Mrs. Munck (1995)
- Raging Angels (1995)
- The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
- Gideon (1999)
- La Bomba (1999)
- A-List (2004) (Cameo)
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TV Work
- Wipe-Out (1963)
- A Death of Innocence (1971)
- Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
- The Devil's Daughter (1973)
- Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974)
- The Sex Symbol (1974)
- Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) (voice)
- The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
- Elvis (1979)
- Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979) (voice)
- The French Atlantic Affair (1979) (miniseries)
- Emma and Grandpa on the Farm (1983) (narrator)
- Alice in Wonderland (1985)
- Weep No More, My Lady (1992)
Categories: 1920 births | Cinema actors | American actors | Best Actress Oscar Nominee | Best Supporting Actress Oscar | Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominee | Hollywood Walk of Fame
