My journey ends here...
WINTERS Shelley
Shirley Schrift.
Date of birth
: August 18th 1922, East Saint Louis,
Illinois.
Date of death : January 14th 2006, Beverly Hills, California.
Practise : actress.
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Her career took up more than 5 decades.
She received an Academy Award for "the Diary of Anne Frank" (1959) and "A Place in the Sun (1951); she played in TV movies and performed on stage.
Her long movie career includes more than 100 movies, among them "Othello" (1948),"The Night of the Hunter", "A Patch of Blue" (1965), "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972).
With Marilyn they became friends (according to Shelley) at the end of the 40's, and shared an apartment on Holloway Drive, Hollywood, in 1951 :
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As one of the first member of the Actors Studio, she was one of the first to recommend Lee Strasberg to Marilyn.
She would have attended the lessons at the Actors Lab, when Marilyn arrived there in 1947.
Pictures
In 1951, at a party
In 1952, with her husband, Italian actor Vittorio Gassman
In September 1953, on the set of "River of No Return"
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On November 4th 1953, at the premiere of "How to Marry a Millionaire?"
With John Kennedy
On March 8th 1960, at the Golden Globes Awards
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On April 4th 1960, at the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony
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In 1973, at a party at the screenwriter and producer Harold Robbins's home
In 1974, with Peter Lawford
Bibliography
"Shelley
II, the Middle of the Century". New York
: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
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