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A Short Biography of Shelley Winters

Author Name:

Shelley Winters

Born As:

Shirley Schrift

Other Names:

Shelley Winters

Born:

18 Aug 1920

Died:

14 Jan 2006




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Actress                          
                          
Mother Rose Winters
Father Jonas Schrift
Marriages:
Capt. Mack Paul Mayer - 1943, divorced 1948.
Vittorio Gassman - 1952, divorced 1954 - one child, Vittoria, a physician, who practices internal medicine at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was Winters' only child.
Anthony Franciosa - 1957, divorced - 1960.
Gerry DeFord, married by Sally Kirkland, Shelley’s goddaughter, on January 14, 2006, hours before her death.
Winters married long-time companion Gerry DeFord, with whom she had lived for nineteen years. Though Winters' daughter objected to the marriage, the actress Sally Kirkland, an ordained minister, performed the wedding ceremony for the two at Winters' deathbed. Non-denominational last rites for Winters were performed by Kirkland, a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Winters also had a romance with Farley Granger that became a long-term friendship.                          
Best Actress in a Supporting Role -	The Diary of Anne Frank - 1959
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of Blue - 1965