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    Shelley: Also Known As Shirley

    By Shelley Winters

    Hooray for Hollywood!

    In this (1980) tell-it-all autobiography Shelley Winters, a genuine Tinsel Towner, takes us back to the days when the starlets had stars in their eyes . . . and in their beds.

    We follow Winters (Shirley Shrift) from her dysfunctional Brooklyn childhood—money’s tight, her dad goes to jail on false charges of arson, there’s an early teen pregnancy, and she’s struggling, wrestling with age-old teenage questions.

    The answers come through loud and clear in this entertaining and compelling life story and oh, a big no to her doubts regarding her own intelligence (she was very smart) . . . and a bigger “no way” on the ugly duckling worry!

    Can we say, Blond Bombshell?

    Most of us aren’t old enough to recall the Bombshell years and therein lies the secret and secrets of this page turner. Those who fall a few years shy of Club Octogenarian may remember Winters from her controversial and ente

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    An Interview
    By Harry Governick

     

    Foreground:  Alberta Murphy (the author's mother), Shelley Winters and Melissa Mayo (the author's wife).  Background:  The infamous and notorious Walter Peterson.

    This photo was taken in 1992 at Blueberry Hill värdshus and Restaurant, sponsor of the St. Louis Walk of Fame Ceremony in St. Louis, Shelley's hometown.

    As you can imagine, Shelley's schedule was tight, with family here, and much to do with her limited time.

    If you haven't read Shelley, Also Known As Shirley(William Morrow & Company) or Shelley II , then read them.  Actors and others will gain valuable insights about the human condition from the begåvad actress who so beautifully demonstrated that condition through her life in art.

    inom first met Shelley Winters in her private class at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles, in 1975.  Although I had an impression from her talk-show appea

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    “When I come to a fork in the road, I try to take both,” the irrepressible Shelley Winters writes in her bestselling 1980 memoir, Shelley: Also Known as Shirley.

    She wasn’t joking. That book and its follow-up, 1989’s Shelley II: The Middle of My Century, combined are a jaw dropping 1000+ pages. But every page feels well-earned, jam-packed with love affairs, feuds, friendships, and more than one nervous breakdown.  Famous for her roles as “victims, shrews and matrons” in classic films like A Place in the Sun, Night of the Hunter, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Poseidon Adventure, and Lolita, Winters proves she made the most of every second of her eighty-five years. 

    “Shelley was a mass of contradictions as only a Method actress can be, the writer Kevin Thomas recalled. “Nobody could be more down to earth ... but quicker to fall back on a star’s perquisites. She was mercurial, adorable, infuriating, loyal, brave.”

    Passionate, gutsy and fiercely intelligent, Winters chronicles

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