Shelley Winters Articles

Alida Valli, Farley Granger in Luchino Visconti's Senso Farley Granger Dies: ROPE, SENSO, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN A lengthy big-screen hiatus followed, as Farley Granger's on-camera appearances became restricted to television work. He eventually returned to features in the late '60s, almost invariably in European productions. During that time, he was featured in several Euro-Westerns and horror/gialli (mix of violence and sex) productions. Among the [...]

Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons in Ronald Neame's The Poseidon Adventure Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on Wednesday, June 16, at a hospital in Los Angeles. Neame, who never recovered after suffering a fall, was 99. In the grandiose and technically impressive (but slow-moving) disaster flick, Gene Hackman led an all-star cast through the bowels of a capsized [...]

Actor Anthony Franciosa died of a massive stroke this past Friday, Jan. 20, at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 77. Franciosa's film career began late — but auspiciously — in 1957. The 32-year-old actor (born in New York City on Oct. 28, 1925) had key roles in Robert Wise's This Could Be the Night, George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind, Elia Kazan's [...]

Shelley Winters, winner of two best supporting actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills on Jan. 14. In October, she had been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. She was 85. Besides her two Oscars — for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965) — Winters received two other nominations: in 1951 as [...]