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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2018 2:40:00 GMT
In the 1950s, outspoken and unconventional movie starlet Shelley Winters became the ultimate sex symbol, eclipsing the collective efforts of stars of the magnitude of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors. Her friend Marilyn enjoyed the company of playwright Arthur Miller and Winters admired the work of Norman Mailer who shared her passion for dangerous French erotic literature (he later wrote a variation on Joris-Karl Huysmans' 1891 book 'La-Bas').
"Shelley Winters gained a reputation in the 1940s and 1950s as the "bad girl" of Hollywood. Her on-screen performances as assorted prostitutes and good-time girls were over-shadowed by her offscreen behaviour. She made no secret of her frequent domestic brawls with second husband, Vittorio Gassman; they were a regular feature of Hollywood gossip columns. On a trip to Paris without Gassman in 1954, she claimed that she had given up what she described as "the bad behaviour that puts me in the headlines".
But during the following weekend Shelley Winters inadvertantly spent the evening in a lesbian dance club - "I look down and there's a skirt under the dinner jacket!" - and was almost arrested for kissing in public: "This gendarme bawls 'no necking in public' and I think I'm going to end up in the cells!"
Unlike most 1950s "sex bombs", including her best friend Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters displayed little vanity about her appearance. "Marilyn was fooled into thinking she was a sex symbol and nothing more," Miss Winters recalled. "She couldn't imagine how she would face life at 50 and so did away with herself. I never had that problem."
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. A dedicated and enthusiastic hedonist, she was nevertheless the only person to sign Norman Mailer's petition to reinstate "The Hollywood 10" - writers who had been blacklisted by Senator McCarthy - and regularly attended parties held for them.
In her emotional entanglements, she was similarly unexpected. Despite a long and varied list of lovers - including, it seemed, almost every male star in Hollywood - Shelley Winters insisted that she "really loved" only two men, her first husband, Paul Meyer, and Burt Lancaster."
- Shelley Winters remembered in 'The Telegraph'
'Sexbomb' - Tom Jones
"I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short."
- Shelley Winters
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:13:02 GMT
 Contrary to rumors .. Shelley is NOT related to Jonathan ! Shirley Schrift took her mother's maiden name (Winter) as her stage name and added Shelley for her favorite poet. When she saw the call sheet for A Double Life (1947), she discovered that Universal had added an "s", making her Shelley Winters. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:18:18 GMT
"I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long."
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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2018 3:18:34 GMT
Contrary to rumors .. Shelley is NOT related to Jonathan ! Shirley Schrift took her mother's maiden name (Winter) as her stage name and added Shelley for her favorite poet. When she saw the call sheet for A Double Life (1947), she discovered that Universal had added an "s", making her Shelley Winters.
Jonathan Winters was Robin Williams' idol/; he studied endless tape of the comic from Dayton, Ohio. Robin Williams was from Chicago, Illinois, Shelley Winters was a Missouri girl, from St. Louis, home to Chuck Berry.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:21:01 GMT
 "The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife" |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:24:03 GMT
 She donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) to the Anne Frank museum.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:28:15 GMT
 "The Brooklyn-bred Shelley just couldn't escape the lurid bottle-blonde quality she instilled in her characters." |
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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2018 3:29:41 GMT
She donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) to the Anne Frank museum. Roger Corman thought the world of Shelley Winters ...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:35:57 GMT
  (1970) |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:42:34 GMT
 "As a tarnished glamour girl and symbol of working class vulgarity in Hollywood, Shelley was about to be written off in pictures altogether when one of her finest movie roles arrived on her front porch. Her best hard luck girl storyboard showed up in the form of depressed, frumpy-looking Alice Tripp, a factory girl seduced and abandoned by wanderlust Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951)." 1952 Nominee Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role A Place in the Sun (1951) |
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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2018 3:47:27 GMT
"As a tarnished glamour girl and symbol of working class vulgarity in Hollywood, Shelley was about to be written off in pictures altogether when one of her finest movie roles arrived on her front porch. Her best hard luck girl storyboard showed up in the form of depressed, frumpy-looking Alice Tripp, a factory girl seduced and abandoned by wanderlust Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951)." 1952 Nominee Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role A Place in the Sun (1951) Actor Vittorio Gassman praised this picture from George Stevens for its commitment and performances. It was a popular success in Italy.
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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2018 3:51:52 GMT
(1970)
"You rang?"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 3:57:13 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2018 4:06:58 GMT
  Author of two maybe more than ya wanna know auto-biographies.  Think I'll give them a miss, thanks. 
There's an eye-opening movie moment, here in U K, where Madame Cole (Winters) acknowledges her ladies' appreciation of each other from behind in Gerry O'Hara's definitive 'Fanny Hill' (1983), that I feel truly illuminates this wonderful woman's fresh and philosophical, forward-thinking approach to sex. No wonder she got along so well with Tony Curtis.
"At 17 he joined the Navy, signing on for three years. But his hopes of promotion were crushed when he was told that he did not have good enough school marks for officer training. "I couldn't believe it," he recalled, "these guys were telling me I was real dumb." After leaving the Navy, he took advantage of the Forces Educational Scheme and enrolled in high school to complete his education.
He continued to act, first (in spite of parental disapproval) with the YMCA, and later with a Jewish theatre company. In 1945 he was playing the lead in Golden Boy when he was spotted by a talent scout for Universal, which immediately signed him on a seven-year contract.
He moved to Hollywood where, despite regular income from the studio, he found himself on the brink of poverty. After paying for membership of various performing guilds, buying a new wardrobe and paying agent's fees he was left with $1.50 a week. The actress Shelley Winters recalled that Tony Curtis arrived at her flat one afternoon at this time, and introduced himself as Bernie. "My mom knows your aunt back in the Bronx," he said, "and she said you should take care of me until I get settled." Shelley Winters found him an apartment to share (with Marlon Brando) and introduced him to her friends – including Marilyn Monroe, whom Curtis immediately asked out.
Universal decided that Bernie Schwartz was not a "bankable" name, so Curtis chose Antonio Cortez. When Universal again complained that the name was too "Latin", he changed it to Curtiz and eventually Curtis. He made his screen debut in 1945, dancing a 15-second Mambo with Yvonne de Carlo in Criss Cross, which starred Burt Lancaster."
- Tony Curtis remembered in 'The Telegraph'
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Nov 18, 2018 5:45:30 GMT
In the 1950s, outspoken and unconventional movie starlet Shelley Winters became the ultimate sex symbol, eclipsing the collective efforts of stars of the magnitude of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors. Her friend Marilyn enjoyed the company of playwright Arthur Miller and Winters admired the work of Norman Mailer who shared her passion for dangerous French erotic literature (he later wrote a variation on Joris-Karl Huysmans' 1891 book 'La-Bas').
"Shelley Winters gained a reputation in the 1940s and 1950s as the "bad girl" of Hollywood. Her on-screen performances as assorted prostitutes and good-time girls were over-shadowed by her offscreen behaviour. She made no secret of her frequent domestic brawls with second husband, Vittorio Gassman; they were a regular feature of Hollywood gossip columns. On a trip to Paris without Gassman in 1954, she claimed that she had given up what she described as "the bad behaviour that puts me in the headlines".
But during the following weekend Shelley Winters inadvertantly spent the evening in a lesbian dance club - "I look down and there's a skirt under the dinner jacket!" - and was almost arrested for kissing in public: "This gendarme bawls 'no necking in public' and I think I'm going to end up in the cells!"
Unlike most 1950s "sex bombs", including her best friend Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters displayed little vanity about her appearance. "Marilyn was fooled into thinking she was a sex symbol and nothing more," Miss Winters recalled. "She couldn't imagine how she would face life at 50 and so did away with herself. I never had that problem."
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. A dedicated and enthusiastic hedonist, she was nevertheless the only person to sign Norman Mailer's petition to reinstate "The Hollywood 10" - writers who had been blacklisted by Senator McCarthy - and regularly attended parties held for them.
In her emotional entanglements, she was similarly unexpected. Despite a long and varied list of lovers - including, it seemed, almost every male star in Hollywood - Shelley Winters insisted that she "really loved" only two men, her first husband, Paul Meyer, and Burt Lancaster."
- Shelley Winters remembered in 'The Telegraph'
'Sexbomb' - Tom Jones
"I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short."
- Shelley Winters
Petro, you can't possibly believe that first paragraph. And I LOVE Shelley Winters |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 9:09:47 GMT
Interesting woman 👍
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 18, 2018 16:41:22 GMT
I enjoyed her performances in "Bloody Mama" and "The Posiedan Adventure"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 18, 2018 18:14:35 GMT
One of the most odious mothers of all time A PATCH OF BLUE Winner Oscar
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Shelley Winters   |
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 20, 2018 19:23:59 GMT
I recently (last few months) watched two movies where Ms. Winters was definitely no longer playing the "sex bomb". Both were excellent and she was great.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
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Post by teleadm on Nov 20, 2018 19:39:04 GMT
 Meet Danny Wilson 1951, with Frank Sinatra  To Dorothy, a Son aka Cash on Delivery 1954, with John Gregson, a comedy she made in Britain. |
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