Shelley Winters
Two Oscar Wins, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita
The Volcanic Lioness
Shelley Winters won two Academy Awards for completely different kinds of roles and in between played everyone from femme fatales to victims to comedy gold. She is also the author of two extraordinarily candid memoirs in which she named every famous person she slept with and said exactly what she thought of every director she worked with. Leo literature.
Leo Legacy
- A Place in the Sun: Oscar nominated opposite Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor
- Night of the Hunter: Supporting Oscar 1956 — her drowned Alice Harper is unforgettable
- Patch of Blue: Supporting Oscar 1966 — two Oscars in a career defines a true great
- Memoirs: Two autobiographies of scandalous candor — named names, kept nothing back
Winters’ Leo fearlessness on screen and in print produced a life of complete authenticity.
“I like to drink. I like men. I like sex. I make no apologies.”