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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters was born in E. St. Louis, Ill., on August 18, 1922. Raised in Brooklyn, Winters worked as a model and chorus girl before getting her break on Broadway in 1941. That led to a contract with Columbia Studios, which gave Winters her screen debut in 1943's What a Woman!
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Two-time Academy Award winning actress Shelley Winters died on January 14 in Beverly Hills, California due to heart failure. She was 85 years old and had been in failing health for many months.
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Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters died of heart failure early Saturday at the Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, said her publicist, Dale Olson. She had been hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack. She was 85.
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Throughout her long career, Shelley Winters remained something of a paradox. While appearing as various peroxide blondes on screen she was repeatedly suspended for breaking her film contract to participate in Charles Laughton's touring productions of Shakespeare.
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Montgomery Clift stars as an aimless man who takes a job at a factory and becomes involved with co-worker Shelley Winters, who becomes pregnant. After Clift falls head over heels for gorgeous socialite Elizabeth Taylor and Winters learns of his interest, she threatens to expose her pregnancy, setting into motion a series of tragic events. Based on Theodore Dreiser's
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Two-time Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters borrowed her stage name from her favorite poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her mother's maiden name, Winter. The first studio she signed with reportedly added the final "s," but it has ... been said that she added the "s" herself when she heard that she was being referred to as "Chilly Winter".
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