Shelley Winters is dead !

[albion]

Jan 14, 3:40 PM EST

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85.

In 1959's "The Diary of Anne Frank," she was Petronella Van Daan, mother of Peter Van Daan and one of eight real-life Jewish refugees in World War II Holland who hid for more than a year in cramped quarters until they were betrayed and sent to Nazi death camps. The socially conscious Winters donated her Oscar statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

In 1965's "Patch of Blue," she portrayed a hateful, foul-mouthed mother who tries to keep her blind daughter, who is white, apart from the kind black man who has befriended her.

Winters was born Shirley Schrift in East St. Louis, Illinois, the daughter of Jewish parents - Jonas Schrift (an immigrant) and Rose Winter (born in Missouri to immigrant parents). She studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, sharing the same bedroom with another beginner: Marilyn Monroe.

Always conscious of her Jewish heritage-- she had first learned her trade in the Borscht Belt-- she donated her Oscar for "Anne Frank" to the Anne Frank museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Winters

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with John Garfield ("He Ran All the Way" was Garfield's final film.)

[VAJO JR.]

Did'nt she also play the role of Ma Barker in a movie?

[Felix the Cat]

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[il ragno]

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Shelley (Shirley Schrift) Winters, already packing on the pounds in 1966. She'd continue to get fatter and uglier.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Shelley Winters, the supremely annoying star who ate her way out of blond bombshell parts to playing the fat, loud, gauche, overbearing and supremely annoying Jewish mamma in far too many films and tv programs, somehow winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue" even with that grating nails-on-a-blackboard voice of hers, has finally died. We'd started giving up hope: she was 85.

In 1959's "The Diary of Anne Frank," she was Petronella Van Daan, mother of Peter Van Daan and one of eight real-life Jewish refugees in World War II Holland who shamelessly mooched off a Dutch family for more than a year in cramped quarters, completely rent-free, until the audience was finally put out of its misery and the family was sent to a Nazi death camp. The socially conscious Winters, Jewishly smelling a book deal and lucrative lecture fees to be pocketed, cunningly donated her Oscar statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Winters was not surprisingly born Shirley Schrift in East St. Louis, Illinois, the daughter of Jewish parents (who were apparently surrounded on all sides by Negroes) - Jonas Schrift, an itinerant zipper salesman from Minsk, and Rose Winter, born in Missouri to identical pushcart-schlepping mockies. She studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, sharing the same bedroom with another beginner: Marilyn Monroe, who she suborned into prostitution by getting her hooked on benzedrine.

In 1965's "Patch of Blue," Winters, who was not white but Jewish, portrayed a hateful, foul-mouthed mother who tries to keep her blind daughter, who is white, apart from the kind black man who has befriended her - just like it would happen in real life.

Always conscious of her Jewish heritage-- she swindled people on the side even at the height of her career - she donated her Oscar for "Anne Frank" to the Anne Frank museum. The money, however, she kept.

[albion]

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[daisy]

for a time period in her career they kept arresting her left and right just for publicity stunts to make her more famous