BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – A plain-looking former chorus girl, Shelley Winters was glamorized by her movie company and starred in seductive roles. But she wouldn’t be defined by a stereotype. Winters ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and ...

We interrupt this program to tell you that five hours before her death last week, Academy Award-winning actress Shelley Winters wed her longtime boyfriend Gerry DeFord. The service was performed by ...

Shelley Winters, the dynamic blonde actress whose career took her from sexpot to respected Oscar-winning stage and screen actress, has passed away at the age of 85. She died of heart failure early ...

Shelley Winters, a blond bombshell of the 1940s who evolved into a character actress best remembered for her roles as victims, shrews and matrons, died Saturday. She was 85. Ms. Winters, the first ...

The movie house was dark. A beautiful blonde actress smiled at me from the screen in the small Duluth, Minn., theater. “She’s Jewish,” my grandma Goldie whispered as we watched “Knickerbocker Holiday.

Winters, whose given name was Shirley Schrift, was appearing in the Broadway hit “Rosalinda” when Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn offered her a screen test. A Columbia contact and a new name — ...

In a sense, some of Shelley Winters` most memorable moments in her acting career have involved her status as a kind of cinematic water baby. In ”A Place in the Sun,” as the blue-collar girlfriend of ...