Shelley Winters

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Shelley Winters was born as Shirley Schrift on 17 Aug 1920 in St Louis, [[Missouri]] the daughter of Jewish-American Jonas Schrift and his wife Rose Winter.
 
Shelley Winters was born as Shirley Schrift on 17 Aug 1920 in St Louis, [[Missouri]] the daughter of Jewish-American Jonas Schrift and his wife Rose Winter.
  
Shortly after WWII, she met [[Sterling Hayden]] who, in her autobiography, she calls "the most beautiful man I have ever met in my life."  They had a short affair in 1954 or 1955, and did a film together many years later.
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Shortly after WWII, she met [[Sterling Hayden]] who, in her autobiography, she calls "the most beautiful man I have ever met in my life."  They had a short affair in 1954 or 1955, and did a film together many years later, where they play the King and Queen of the Gypsies.
  
 
In the late 1940's she was the roommate of [[Marilyn Monroe]], about the time they were shooting for her 1950 film Frenchie.  [[Christopher Isherwood]] introduced her to Dylan Thomas without telling her who he was.  Dylan wanted to meet Charlie Chaplin, so she invited him to have dinner at her apartment with her and Marilyn and then they would all drive over to Chaplin's for his weekly open-house.  Marilyn couldn't cook so Shelley cooked and Marilyn cleaned up.  Shelley did not know that Dylan was a world-famous poet until his bizarre drunken behaviour sent Chaplin into a fit.  Upon which all the guests left.  At the time Chaplin had two sons, Sydney and Charlie Jr.  In his autobiography, Chaplin never mentioned Charlie Jr who committed suicide in the late 60s.
 
In the late 1940's she was the roommate of [[Marilyn Monroe]], about the time they were shooting for her 1950 film Frenchie.  [[Christopher Isherwood]] introduced her to Dylan Thomas without telling her who he was.  Dylan wanted to meet Charlie Chaplin, so she invited him to have dinner at her apartment with her and Marilyn and then they would all drive over to Chaplin's for his weekly open-house.  Marilyn couldn't cook so Shelley cooked and Marilyn cleaned up.  Shelley did not know that Dylan was a world-famous poet until his bizarre drunken behaviour sent Chaplin into a fit.  Upon which all the guests left.  At the time Chaplin had two sons, Sydney and Charlie Jr.  In his autobiography, Chaplin never mentioned Charlie Jr who committed suicide in the late 60s.

Revision as of 22:34, 29 July 2008

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