Shelley Winters
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 best actress for A Place in the Sun (top, with Montgomery Clift) and a supporting nod in 1972 for her underwater prowess in The Poseidon Adventure (right). (Sylvia Syms played Winters’ role in the 2005 made-for-TV remake.)
Née Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Mo., on Aug. 18, 1920 (some sources claim 1922), to an amateur [...]
by Andre Soares | January 14, 2006
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Tags: A Place in the Sun, Anthony Franciosa, Classic Movies, Farley Granger, George Stevens, Montgomery Clift, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure, Vittorio Gassman
Annette Stroyberg
Danish-born actress and socialite Annette Stroyberg (aka Annette Vadim), best known for having married director Roger Vadim died of cancer on Dec. 12 in Copenhagen. She was 69.
Stroyberg made a few film appearances in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most notably as the innocent victim of connivers Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe in Vadim’s modernized version of Choderlos de Laclos‘ Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959). She was Vadim’s second wife, following on the heels of Brigitte Bardot.
Among her other film roles — whether as Annette Vadim or Annette Stroyberg — are those in Blood and Roses (1960), as a vampire who makes out with Elsa Martinelli before gulping down her blood; Roberto Rossellini’s Anima nera (1962), co-starring Vittorio [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2005
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Tags: Anima nera, Annette Stroyberg, Annette Vadim, Blood and Roses, Brigitte Bardot, Classic Movies, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Les Liaisons scandaleuses, Roger Vadim, Vittorio Gassman
