jazzybill
01-20-2006, 10:51 AM
TCM is featuring a tribute to Shelley Winters next Monday, the 23rd.
TCM will change the schedule on Monday, 1/23 to honor the career of Shelley
Winters. Please note the new lineup:
8:00 AM ET/5:00 AM PT He Ran All the Way
9:30 AM The Treasure of Pancho Villa
11:30 AM Odds Against Tomorrow
1:30 PM The Young Savages
3:30 PM Lolita 6:15 PM Winchester '73
8:00 PM A Patch of Blue (winner, Best Supporting Actress)
10:00 PM A Place in the Sun (nom, Best Actress)
12:15 AM The Night of the Hunter
2:00 AM Executive Suite
4:00 AM Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
6:00 AM The Scalphunters
ROBERT OSBORNE REMEMBERS SHELLEY WINTERS (1920-2006)
Shelley Winters may have had her big Hollywood breakthrough in a film called
A Double Life (1947), but "A Multi-Faceted Career" better describes Winters,
a lady who's celebrating her 60th year in the movie business. She first made
waves as a blonde sexpot in the 1940s (initially billed as Shelley "Winter")
and, except for that great part opposite Ronald Colman in the aforementioned
A Double Life, she spent most of that decade playing tootsie roles which
required peroxide, tight dresses and the swaying of hips much more than any
acting prowess. Then, presto, chango! suddenly there was the Shelley who played
the mousy, lonely and ultimately clawing girlfriend of Montgomery Clift in
George Stevens's brilliant A Place in the Sun (1951). Her highly skilled
performance made it abundantly clear why Clift dropped her - unfortunately, for
her, in the middle of a lake - so he'd be free to woo an 18-year-old Elizabeth
Taylor. There was no doubt that Shelley was a brilliantly promising actress
destined to end up winning Academy Awards (and indeed she did - two of them, in
fact). On Broadway in that same decade, she was equally riveting, playing the
desperate wife of a heroin addict in the original production of A Hatful of
Rain. Then, later, in another transformation, emerged "the shrewish
Shelley," which she put on display in movies such as 1965's A Patch of Blue (one of
her Oscar®-winners, in fact); that's the Shelley persona that also dominated
her 1001 appearances on television talk-show circuits. But several things have
been consistent. For instance, she has never been predictable. (The first
time I ever interviewed Shelley, she never arose from the couch, where she
remained prone the entire time, claiming sore feet.) Nor has she ever been a
bore. Further, she's livened up every project she's been in, big or small,
important or fleeting. Here on TCM on Monday, January 23rd, we'll be bringing you
many Shelleys, so you can check out the ones you've seen before and enjoyed,
and the ones you've never met, be it sexpot or shrew. We have 12 excellent
examples of her life in front of the cameras, including A Place in the Sun ,The
Young Savages, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita and A Patch of Blue. But do
have a look at the others as well. She'll amuse you, amaze you, touch you, stir
your emotions and surprise you. There's always been so much more to Shelley
Winters than those often-outrageous talk-show appearances, or even those two
Oscars® on her mantle, would indicate.
For more information on Shelley Winters and her career, please visit the
_TCM Movie Database_
(http://tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?scarlettParticipantId=208074&afiPersonalNameId=139852) .
TCM will change the schedule on Monday, 1/23 to honor the career of Shelley
Winters. Please note the new lineup:
8:00 AM ET/5:00 AM PT He Ran All the Way
9:30 AM The Treasure of Pancho Villa
11:30 AM Odds Against Tomorrow
1:30 PM The Young Savages
3:30 PM Lolita 6:15 PM Winchester '73
8:00 PM A Patch of Blue (winner, Best Supporting Actress)
10:00 PM A Place in the Sun (nom, Best Actress)
12:15 AM The Night of the Hunter
2:00 AM Executive Suite
4:00 AM Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
6:00 AM The Scalphunters
ROBERT OSBORNE REMEMBERS SHELLEY WINTERS (1920-2006)
Shelley Winters may have had her big Hollywood breakthrough in a film called
A Double Life (1947), but "A Multi-Faceted Career" better describes Winters,
a lady who's celebrating her 60th year in the movie business. She first made
waves as a blonde sexpot in the 1940s (initially billed as Shelley "Winter")
and, except for that great part opposite Ronald Colman in the aforementioned
A Double Life, she spent most of that decade playing tootsie roles which
required peroxide, tight dresses and the swaying of hips much more than any
acting prowess. Then, presto, chango! suddenly there was the Shelley who played
the mousy, lonely and ultimately clawing girlfriend of Montgomery Clift in
George Stevens's brilliant A Place in the Sun (1951). Her highly skilled
performance made it abundantly clear why Clift dropped her - unfortunately, for
her, in the middle of a lake - so he'd be free to woo an 18-year-old Elizabeth
Taylor. There was no doubt that Shelley was a brilliantly promising actress
destined to end up winning Academy Awards (and indeed she did - two of them, in
fact). On Broadway in that same decade, she was equally riveting, playing the
desperate wife of a heroin addict in the original production of A Hatful of
Rain. Then, later, in another transformation, emerged "the shrewish
Shelley," which she put on display in movies such as 1965's A Patch of Blue (one of
her Oscar®-winners, in fact); that's the Shelley persona that also dominated
her 1001 appearances on television talk-show circuits. But several things have
been consistent. For instance, she has never been predictable. (The first
time I ever interviewed Shelley, she never arose from the couch, where she
remained prone the entire time, claiming sore feet.) Nor has she ever been a
bore. Further, she's livened up every project she's been in, big or small,
important or fleeting. Here on TCM on Monday, January 23rd, we'll be bringing you
many Shelleys, so you can check out the ones you've seen before and enjoyed,
and the ones you've never met, be it sexpot or shrew. We have 12 excellent
examples of her life in front of the cameras, including A Place in the Sun ,The
Young Savages, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita and A Patch of Blue. But do
have a look at the others as well. She'll amuse you, amaze you, touch you, stir
your emotions and surprise you. There's always been so much more to Shelley
Winters than those often-outrageous talk-show appearances, or even those two
Oscars® on her mantle, would indicate.
For more information on Shelley Winters and her career, please visit the
_TCM Movie Database_
(http://tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?scarlettParticipantId=208074&afiPersonalNameId=139852) .