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Shelley Winters
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Actor Born: August 18, 1922 in East St. Louis, IL Death: January 14, 2006 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:American actress "Shelley Winters" was the daughter of a tailor's cutter; her mother was a former opera singer. "Winters" evinced her mom's influence at age four, when she made an impromptu singing appearance at a St. Louis amateur night. When her father moved to Long Island to be closer to the New York garment district, "Winters" took acting lessons at the New School for Social Research and the Actors Studio. Short stints as a model and a chorus girl led to her Broadway debut in the "S.J. Perelman" comedy The Night Before Christmas in 1940. "Winters" signed a Columbia Pictures contract in 1943, mostly playing bits, except when loaned to United Artists for an important role in "Knickerbocker Holiday" (1944). Realizing she was getting nowhere, she took additional acting instructions and performed in nightclubs.
The breakthrough came with her role as a "good time girl" murdered by insane stage star... Full Biography
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