Shelley Winters

Also Credited As:

Shelley Winter, Shirley Schrift
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Biography

As a teenager, she auditioned for the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in her thick "Noo Yawk" accent, prompting director George Cukor to suggest she consider college. Undaunted, Winters persisted and landed an understudy job for the 1940 Broadway production of "The Time of Your Life". The following year, she made her Broadway debut in "The Night Before Christmas". A voluptuous bottle blonde, the actress soon caught the attention of talent …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

Shirley Schrift on August 18, 1920 in St Louis, Missouri, USA

LATEST CREDITS

To Dorothy a Son

Myrtle La Mar

Very Close Quarters

Galina

The Devil's Daughter

Lilith Malone

Playgirl

Fran Davis

Witchfire

Lydia

Tennessee Champ

Sarah Wurble

A Death of Innocence

Elizabeth Cameron

The Balcony

Madame Irma

Phone Call From a Stranger

Binky Gay

Wild in the Streets

Mrs Flatow

Touch of a Stranger

Actor

Looping

Carmen

Revenge

Amanda Hilton

Bloody Mama

Kate "Ma" Barker

A House Is Not a Home

Polly Adler

My Mother, My Daughter

Mother

Big Rose

Rose Winters

Who Slew Auntie Roo?

Aunt Roo

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

Ruth Harris

King of the Gypsies

Queen Rachel

Poor Pretty Eddie

Actor

The Mad Room

Mrs Gladys Armstrong

The Initiation of Sarah

Miss Erica

Something to Hide

Gabriella

I Died a Thousand Times

Marie