Shelley Winters Net Worth is
$1 Million

Mini Biography

Shelley Winters was created Shirley Schrift of extremely humble origins on August 18, 1920 (some resources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mom, Rose (Wintertime), was created in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her dad, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. Her dad moved the family members to Brooklyn when she was still youthful in order that he, a tailor’s cutter, may find steadier function nearer to the city’s garment sector. An unfailing curiosity about acting happened quite early for Shelley and she made an appearance in senior high school takes on. By her mid-to-late teenagers she had recently been employed being a Woolworth’s shop clerk, model, borscht belt vaudevillian and nightclub chorine, all to be able to purchase her performing classes. Throughout a countrywide search in 1939 for GWTW’s Scarlett O’Hara, Shelley was suggested by auditioning movie director George Cukor to obtain performing lessons, which she do. Apprenticing in summer months stock, she produced her Broadway debut in the short-lived humor “THE NIGHT TIME Before Xmas” in 1941 and implemented it using the operetta “Rosalinda” (1942) originally billing herself in both displays as Shelley Wintertime (with no “s”). Within a short while, Shelley pushed ahead for the career out west. Hollywood became a tough street. Toiling in little bit roles for a long time, a lot of her moments were excised entirely during her start. Obscurely found in such films as Just what a Girl! (1943), The Racquet Guy (1944), Cover Gal (1944) and Tonight and EVERY EVENING (1945), her breakthrough didn’t take place until 1947, and it just happened on both stage and silver screen. Not only do she earn the replacement part of Ado Annie Carnes in “Oklahoma!” on Broadway but, around once, scored superb notices on film as the party young lady waitress who eventually ends up a sufferer of deranged strangler (and Oscar champion) Ronald Colman in the critically-hailed A Twice Life (1947) aimed by Cukor. Out of this second, a somewhat earthy film stardom was to become hers performing second-lead broads who frequently fulfilled untimely ends (as with Cry of the town (1948) and THE FANTASTIC Gatsby (1949)), or tawdry-black-stockinged and feather-boa-adorned qualified prospects, as with South Ocean Sinner (1950) where her eclectic co-stars included Macdonald Carey and Liberace! Like a tarnished glamour young lady and mark of working course vulgarity in Hollywood, Shelley was going to be written off in photos altogether when among her finest film roles arrived on her behalf front porch. Her greatest hard luck young lady storyboard arrived by means of despondent, frumpy-looking Alice Tripp, a stock gal seduced and empty by wanderlust Montgomery Clift in A LOCATION in sunlight (1951). Favoring beautiful society gal Elizabeth Taylor who’s totally out of his group, Clift is eventually blackmailed by Winters’ pathetic (and today pregnant) personality into marrying her. On her behalf desperate efforts, she actually is purposely drowned by Clift after he guidelines their canoe. The function, which garnered Shelley her initial Oscar nomination, finally plucked her from the sordid starlet pool she was treading and in to the rates of significant femme celebrity contenders. However, not for long. The Brooklyn-bred Shelley simply couldn’t escape the lurid bottle-blonde quality she instilled in her characters. During what must have been her maximum time in movies were a bunch of badly-scripted “B” movies. The most obvious, two-dimensional chorines, barflies, floozies and yellow metal diggers she performed in Behave Yourself! (1951), Frenchie (1950), TELEPHONE CALL from a Stranger (1952), Playgirl (1954) and Mambo (1954), the second option which co-starred second spouse Vittorio Gassman, just about said everything. Shelley grew incredibly disenchanted and made a decision to go back to dramatic research. Earning membership in to the famous Actor’s Studio room, she visited Broadway and gained kudos, thus reestablishing her popularity as a solid actress using the drug-themed play “A Hatful of Rainfall” (1955). Co-starring in the present was the up-and-coming hunk Anthony Franciosa, whom she had taken as her third hubby in 1957. Shelley’s renewed commitment to seeking quality function was proven by her performances in several heavyweight theater jobs including Blanche in “A Streetcar Called Desire” (1955). In old age, the Actors Studio room enthusiast became among its esteemed instructors, shaping up several today’s fine skill using the Strasberg “technique” technique. By the later 1950s Shelley had began developing in girth and wisely eased into colorful personality supports. The change paid. After a sterling efficiency as the ill-fated wife of sadistic killer Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s THE NIGHT TIME from the Hunter (1955), she obtained big in the Oscar division when she received “Best Supporting Celebrity” on her behalf shrill and hypertensive function of Mrs. Truck Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). Out of this period sprouted a bunch of revoltingly poor mamas, blowsy matrons, and trashy madams in such film fare as Lolita (1962), The Chapman Record (1962), The Balcony (1963) Wives and Fans (1963), and A RESIDENCE ISN’T a House (1964). She topped factors off as the abusive prostitute mother within a Patch of Blue (1965) who was simply not really above pimping her very own blind child (the past due Elizabeth Hartman) for home money. The celebrity were able to place another Oscar on her behalf mantle because of this riveting support function. With advancing age and increasing size, Shelley found an appropriate niche in the harping Jewish wife/mom category with loud, flashy, unsubtle functions in Enter Laughing (1967), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) and, especially, The Poseidon Adventure (1972). She gained another Oscar nomination for “Poseidon” while portraying her third drowning sufferer. At around once, she scored quite nicely as the indomitable Marx Brothers’ mama in “Minnie’s Guys” on Broadway in 1970. In the 1970s and 1980s, Shelley progressed into an oddly-distracted personality on TV, producing countless talk show appearances and becoming quite the raconteur and incessant name dropper with her juicy Hollywood behind-the-scenes tales. Candid will be an understatement when she released two scintillating tell-all autobiographies that reached the very best seller’s list. “Shelley, Also called Shirley” (1981) and “Shelley II: The center of My Century” (1989) complete her notorious dalliances with such well-known celebrities as Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, William Holden, Sean Connery and Clark Gable, to mention a few. Thrice divorced (her initial hubby was a WWII captain, even though her only kid, Vittoria, originated from her second union to Italian stallion Gassman), Shelley remained footloose and nice free of charge after finally breaking it all off using the volatile Franciosa in 1960. Her stormy relationships and notorious affairs, not forgetting her ambitious forays into politics and feminist causes, held her name alive for many years. She worked well in films before start of the millennium, her last film becoming the easily-dismissed Italian feature La bomba (1999). She also appreciated Emmy-winning TV function and acquired the recurring function of Roseanne Barr’s tell-it-like-it-is grandmother in the comedienne’s self-named sitcom. Shelley’s last years had been marred by declining health and, generally, she was restricted to a wheelchair. Struggling a coronary attack in Oct of 2005, she passed away within a Beverly Hillsides nursing house of heart failing on January 14, 2006. It had been reported that just hours previously her deathbed she experienced entered right into a “religious” union with her longtime friend of 19 years, Gerry McFord. Gregarious, brazen, ambitious and totally unpredictable — that might be Shelley Winters, the storyteller, whose amazing profession lasted over six vibrant decades.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Shelley Winters
Date Of Birth	August 18, 1920
Died	January 14, 2006, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Height	1.62 m
Profession	Actor
Education	The New School
Nationality	American
Spouse	Gerry DeFord (m. 2006–2006), Anthony Franciosa (m. 1957–1960), Vittorio Gassman (m. 1952–1954), Capt. Mack Paul Mayer (m. 1942–1948)
Children	Vittoria Gassman
Parents	Rose Schrift, Jonas Schrift
Siblings	Blanche Schrift
Awards	Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Grand Jury Prize, David di Donatello Special Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Single Performance By A Supporting Actress In A Comedy Or Drama Series
Movies	The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, A Patch of Blue, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Double Life, Bloody Mama, Lolita, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Alfie, The Young Savages, Winchester '73, What's the Matter with Helen?, Wild in the Streets, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, The Tenant, Behave Yourself!, Cleopatra Jones, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Pete's Dragon, The Chapman Report, The Scalphunters, The Big Knife, Executive Suite, He Ran All the Way, Odds Against Tomorrow, Cry of the City, Phone Call from a Stranger, The Portrait of a Lady, Good Evening, Ms Campbell, The Delta Force, King of the Gypsies, Frenchie, I Died a Thousand Times, Tentacles, A House Is Not a Home, The Visitor, The Great Gatsby, Meet Danny Wilson, Enter Laughing, The Mad Room, Journey into Fear, Blume in Love, Johnny Stool Pigeon, Harper, Untamed Frontier, Stepping Out, City on Fire, S.O.B., Poor Pretty Eddie, Alice in Wonderland
TV Shows	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The NBC Mystery Movie, Beyond This Place