My journey ends here...
Shirley Schrift.
Date of birth
: August 18, 1920, East Saint Louis,
Illinois.
Date of death : January 14, 2006, Beverly Hills, California.
Profession actress.
Portrait 
Story
On January 1st, 1942 she married Mack Paul Myer (
). They divorced on October 1st, 1948.
On April 28, 1952 she married actor Vittorio Gassman (
;
,
,
).
They had a daughter, Vittoria Gina (born July 14, 1953, Los Angeles)(
,
,
).
They divorced on June 2, 1954.
On December 18, 1956, premiere of "Baby Doll" at the Victoria Broadway Theatre (
).
For her third wedding, she married actor Anthony Franciosa on May 4, 1957 (
,
).
They divorced on November 18, 1960.
The day before her death, she married her 19-years companion, Gerry DeFord, on January 13, 2006.
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 
,
,
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" 
,
On November 4, 1953, at the premiere of "How to Marry a Millionaire?" 
1955, at the Actors Studio 
On December 4, 1956 she attended the preparation for the premiere of the play "Baby-Doll", which took place on December 18, 1956; the benefit was for the Actors Studio, to which she belonged
-
With John Kennedy 
On March 8, 1960, at the Golden Globes Awards 
,
,
,
-
On April 4, 1960, at the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony 
,
In 1973, at a party at the screenwriter and producer Harold Robbins's home 
In 1974, with Peter Lawford during the TV program "Marilyn Remembered" on ABC 
Bibliography
"Shelley
II, the Middle of the Century". New York
: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
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