Shelley Winters Net Worth

Shelley Winters's Quotes

• In Hollywood, all the marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
• I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.
• The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife
• I had to gain forty pounds for this movie.
• I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

Interesting Facts about Shelley Winters

1. Her father was Jonas Schrift, her mother was Rose Schrift, and her sister was Blanche Schrift.
2. Winters' early acting training was actor Charles Laughton's tutelage.
3. Was roommates with Marilyn Monroe when they were both starting out in Hollywood.
4. Taught Marilyn Monroe how to "act" pretty by tilting her head back, keeping her eyes lowered and her mouth partly opened.
5. Born at 12:05am-CDT
6. Godmother of actresses Laura Dern and Sally Kirkland. Kirkland, also an ordained minister, conducted the wedding ceremony between Winters and Gerry DeFord ten hours before Winters' death.
7. Made her Broadway debut as Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!" - five years into its run.
8. Has the distinction of currently being the highest ranked female performer on The Oracle of Bacon's list of the top 1000 performers based upon their "center of the film universe" average number. Winter's average link number is 2.696842, placing seventeenth on the list. This places her well above Kevin Bacon, who is currently ranked 1161st, despite being the original focus of the quirky game of linking actors through their co-stars.
9. Godmother of Laura Dern.
10. She donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) to the Anne Frank museum.
11. In The Poseidon Adventure (1972), she plays a former award-winning swimmer and in A Place in the Sun (1951), she cannot swim at all. She drowns in both films.
12. Gave birth to her only child at age 32, a daughter Vittoria Gassman on February 14, 1953. Child's father was her 2nd ex-husband, Vittorio Gassman.
13. Winters played the Marx Brothers' mother Minnie in the Broadway musical "Minnie's Boys", which ran at the Imperial Theatre for 80 Performances from March 26 to May 30, 1970. It was the penultimate performance of her eight Broadway appearances. She appeared in only one more Broadway show, "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds", which ran at the Biltmore Theatre for 16 performances from March 14 to March 26, 1978.
14. In her most important films such as A Place in the Sun (1951), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), A Double Life (1947), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and many others, her character dies, is killed off, or is murdered.
15. She was a huge fan of the television series Babylon 5 (1993).
16. On the September 26, 1975 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), she grew tired of Oliver Reed's attitude towards women. They had a heated conversation and, after Winters told Reed what she thought of his opinions, she left the set. The show continued with Reed going on about women while Johnny Carson looked at him in a daze. Shortly afterward, Winters appeared from stage left, unannounced to Reed and to the shock of Carson. She was carrying a beverage glass and surprised Reed by dumping it over his head. Reed went on to finish his statement as if nothing had happened and later claimed the beverage was whiskey.
17. Her marriage to Anthony Franciosa broke up when he had an affair with Lauren Bacall. During their affair, Bacall once called up Winters and complained, "I've been waiting for Tony for an hour. Where the hell is he?" Winters said, "You're complaining to me because my husband is late for a date with you?", to which Bacall replied, "If your husband doesn't respect your marriage, why should I?" Coincidentally, Winters and Anthony Franciosa died five days apart in 2005.
18. She had a role in Always (1985) and filmed a few scenes, but at one point she had a tantrum and left the set. Her agent pleaded with her to go back and resume her role, but she refused. She was replaced and the scenes reshot. She does not appear in the finished film, unsurprisingly.
19. Attended and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in New York City.
20. Showed up drunk on her first day of shooting of The Linguini Incident (1991) and was fired by director Richard Shepard.