Shelley Winters

A chameleon of an actor, Shelley Winters had a lazy, sexy way about her that bespoke of booze, sex and debauchery. Her roles were as varied as her body shape throughout her career, and if legends are to be believed, she was a very very busy social bee. Here's what others have to say.

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An Unremarkable Life
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Two great stars!!!!!!!!!
This a little gem of a movie. I bought it because of the two
stars in it, I did not know anything about the movie. I found it to be
very enjoyable. Patricia Neal does a superb job and Shelley Winters is
hard to beat in roles where she can be disagreeable.
These were two of Hollywoods great actresses!!!!!!!

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Not very funny, interesting locations
Although I like the actors in this movie I found it rather boring. It is a pretty unfunny comedy which probably has aged badly. There is some interesting 1950s modern Californian architecture on display, though, which is of some historical interest.

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A wrong turn on a jazz singer s road trip results in a vacation she never planned to take. As her car is towed to an isolated lodge nearby she is greeted by a faded starlet who runs the hotel - But has some peculiar Elvis impersonating homicidal help.System Requirements:Running Time - 92 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 692865205432 Manufacturer No: T-2054

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In a very special brothel known as "The Balcony," the customers live out their wildest dreams, oblivious to a revolution that is going on outside. Directed by the award-winning Joseph Strick and based on acclaimed French avant-garde dramatist Jean Genet's play, this star-packed film features Shelley Winters as the brothel's madam and Peter Falk as her occasional lover, who enlists her help in halting the revolution. A young Leonard Nimoy heads the rebels, and Lee Grant is the madam's executive assistant who longs to return to her former role as just "one of the girls." With its insightfulness and delightfully fresh sense of humor, "The Balcony" continues to provide a great view of the world's ironies.

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Following the terror trail of rattles and bassinets set forth by Rosemary's Baby, this Movie of the Week further fueled the public's fascination with Satanism. The Devil s Daughter delivers a young woman into a nightmare world when she learns her mother had promised to her to Satan when she was in infancy. Now of legal age, Lucifer has sent his earthly minions to claim his property and to make sure she is betrothed to the demon of his choice. Starring Shelley Winters (The Poseidon Adventure), Robert Foxworth (Transformers) and Dark Shadows star Jonathan Frid, The Devil's Daughter offers a candle-burning, wind-rustling, spooky time in front of the TV with the lights turned way, way down.

Wild in the Streets/Gas-s-s-s
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A Double Life
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Classic Chiller
A few things came to my mind while viewing "A Double Life". Foremost the film's theme of actors unable to separate roles from reality foreshadowed the recent passing of Heath Ledger. The liner notes state that Cary Grant turned the role of Anthony John before Ronald Colman accepted it. No offence to Grant, but I think it a wise decision because I can't see him doing a better job than Colman. Essentially this a high-brow psychological horror film. If you like this film it would behoove you to check out the films producer Val Lewton made for RKO or "The Lodger" and "Hangover Square" from Fox. All around this is a first rate production. One has to start with Colman who gives a performance for the ages. His character is sympathetic despite the monstrous impulses that lurk beneath his surface. The script by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon cleverly juxtaposes staged horror with the real thing. Director George Cukor orchestrates the proceedings with originality and style. Though "A Double Life" pays homage to a maligned genre it's unlike any film I've seen before and should not be missed.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village
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Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker) is a young man seeking fame and discovering independence in Paul Mazursky's bittersweet comedy set in the 1950's. His mother (Shelley Winters) is distraught when he leaves his traditional family home in Brooklyn and moves to bohemian Greenwich Vilage. As a struggling actor, he gets entangled with a group of free spirits, discovers adult romance and, hardest of all, copes with his overbearing Jewish mother.

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In the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote The African Queen). The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil. Like a nightmarish premonition of stalker movies to come, Night of the Hunter tells the suspenseful tale of a demented preacher (Robert Mitchum, in a performance that prefigures his memorable villain in Cape Fear), who torments a boy and his little sister--even marries their mixed-up mother (Shelley Winters)--because he's certain the kids know where their late bank-robber father hid a stash of stolen money. So dramatic, primal, and unforgettable are its images--the preacher's shadow looming over the children in their bedroom, the magical boat ride down a river whose banks teem with fantastic wildlife, those tattoos of LOVE and HATE on the unholy man's knuckles, the golden locks of a drowned woman waving in the current along with the indigenous plant life in her watery grave--that they're still haunting audiences (and filmmakers) today. --Jim Emerson

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