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Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1922) is an American actress. Born Shirley Schrift in East St. Louis, Illinois, she is known to today's audiences as a large figure of comedians' scathing humor, but when she began her career, she was known as a voluptuous beauty. She is said to have had an affair with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy.Her first movie was What a Woman! in 1943. By 1959, she had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank.
Academy Awards and nominations
- 1973 - Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Poseidon Adventure
- 1966 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of BlueA Patch of Blue is an Academy Award winning film directed by Guy Davis about the relationship between an African American man (played by Sidney Poitier) and a blind white girl ( Elizabeth Hartman), and the problems that plague their relationship when they
- 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Diary of Anne Frank
- 1952Summary of notable events in 1952 . Events January events January 8 West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading RoleThe Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners a - A Place in the SunA Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a young man who is entangled with two women who work for his uncle's factory. It stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle and Raymond Burr. The movie
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street.
Winters, Shelley
Winters, Shelley
Winters, Shelley
Winters, Shelley
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