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Shelley Winters (1920-2006) was a two-time Oscar® winning American actress. Her acting career span over six decades and included movies, theater and television. Shelley Winters’s IMDb page shows 162 acting credits from 1943-1999. This page will rank 60 Shelley Winters movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters and movies that did not reach at least $1 million in box office rentals were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Drivel part of the page: This Shelley Winters page was requested by Gene S. a very long time ago. Actually we know exactly when we got this request. In May 2015, Gene requested a page on Anthony Perkins. After writing that page….Gene suggested that a page on Shelley Winters would be interesting too. Shockingly…in a blink of an eye…an entire year has gone by….but finally here is Gene’s requested Shelley Winters page.
Shelley Winters Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Shelley Winters Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Shelley Winters movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Shelley Winters movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Shelley Winters movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Shelley Winters movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Shelley Winters movie received.
- Sort Shelley Winters movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Possibly Interesting Facts About Shelley Winters
1. Shirley Schrift was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1920.
2. When Shirley Schrift reached Broadway in 1941….she picked the name Shelley Winter (her mother’s maiden name) as her stage name. Later she added the final “s”.
3. Shelley Winters early acting training was under the tutelage of actor Charles Laughton. Laughton would eventually direct Winters in 1955’s The Night Of The Hunter.
4. Shelley Winters was nominated for 4 Oscars®. She won Best Supporting Actress for 1959’s Diary of Anne Frank and 1965’s A Patch of Blue. Her other nominations were for The Poseidon Adventure and A Place In The Sun.
5. Along with Dianne Wiest, Shelley Winters is one of only two actresses to have won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress on two occasions: Winters won for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue and Wiest won for 1986’s Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994’s Bullets Over Broadway.
6. Shelley Winters donated her Oscar® for 1959’s The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank museum.
7. Shelley Winters character was murdered in some of her most famous roles: Montgomery Clift killed her in 1951’s A Place in the Sun, Robert Mitchum killed her in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter, James Mason killed her in 1962’s Lolita , Ronald Colman killed her in 1947’s A Double Life and Nazis got her in 1959’s The Diary of Anne Frank. She dies of a heart attack in 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure.
8. Shelley Winters has been married four times. She had one child.
9. Shelley Winters’s cumulative movie totals: Adjusted domestic box office: $3.59 billion. Her movies received 53 Oscar® nominations….winning 13 times.
10. Quick facts: Winters was Laura Dern’s godmother. Winters and Frank Sinatra fought bitterly while making 1951’s Meet Danny Wilson. Winters and Marilyn Monroe were roommates when they both started their movie careers. Her Hollywood Star is located at 1752 Vine Street.
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1 STEVE When she was in her heyday Sheley was not just sought after by men on the screen. She told in interviews how Burt Lancaster seeking to court her called at her apartment with flowers but she couldn’t admit him because Mr Mumbles was already inside! Indeed I see that beside your Winters video there is a link to another one in which Shelley apparently boasts about romances with Flynn, Gable and of course Old Mumbles.
2 One of your very best for posters and stills and worthy of a 96.5% for my money. Great POSTERS were those for Bloody Mama, Frenchie, Meet Danny Wilson, Saskatchewan [aka O’Rouke of the Royal Mounted – I vividly remember queuing up for it under that title one summer night in 1954] Johnny Stool Pigeon, I Died 100 Times [a remake of Bogie’s High Sierra] and especially The Scalphunters which again co-starred Shelley with her alleged old Beau Burt Lancaster. Bothe of the posters for Wild in the Streets were corkers.
3 Excellent STILLS were the opening and closing solos of the lithe, sexy young Shelley, The Poseidon Adventure, with Sir Maurice in Afie, and the two from A Double Life and A Place in the Sun – but was that Shelley in those two? as to me it didn’t really look like her in either. I particularly liked the one with Mitch in Night of the Hunter and I presume that was a promotional still as she was smiling at him and didn’t have much to smile about on the actual screen as he played a crazy preacher who despite her pleadings refused to make love to her because it was “sinful” even though they were married. I presume that she didn’t have that problem with Gable or Flynn! I also liked Bruce’s saucy miniature still of a reclining Shelley.
4 You and Work Horse agree on 3 of the top 5 and I was surprised that whilst Place in the Sun was your No 3 WH has it as low as 12th. I support you and so did Orson Welles who called it the “greatest film ever made about America”. However Welles probably never came across a character like the Work Horse who seems to be a law onto himself in thse matters. I have just watched an old newsreel clip of Richard Nixon visiting a mine during his presidency and the workers presenting him with a hard security had inscribed with
”America’s No 1 worker”. Trickifus has of course passed on so I have been wondering if we couldn’t get hold of that hat and present it to America’s NEW No 1 Worker.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Shelley Winters video, appreciate the generous rating. I did go a bit overboard on the posters for this one, glad you liked them.
I had two stills of a young and sexy Winters unattached to any movie, I had to use them somewhere so I bookended the video with them. I don’t think anyone will complain.
I too wasn’t sure if that was Winters in A Double Life, I haven’t seen the film but Colman does end up killing Winters in the movie. And if you google Winters and A Double Life you will see further stills of Colman manhandling her.
I’m pretty sure that’s her in A Place in the Sun, she plays a ‘drab’ factory worker, an unglamorous role for Shelley. Montgomery Clift’s girlfriend until he meets the dazzling ‘society girl’ Liz Taylor… suffice to say it all ends in tears (and death)… an American tragedy!
Bruce and I have the same number 1 on our charts, A Place in the Sun is a bit too low on his but he does give it the no.1 spot on the UMR. The Poseidon Adventure is by far her most successful movie.
3 of Winters films have scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Lolita, Diary of Anne Frank and Night of the Hunter. 4 others have scored 9.
Shelley on her hubby Tony Franciosa – “I’ll never forget the night I brought my Oscar home and Tony took one look at it and I knew my marriage was over.”
Shelley on the stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire – “There was an electrical charge and almost an animal scent Brando projected over the footlights that made it impossible for the audience to think or watch the other performers on the stage. All you could do was feel, the sexual arousal was so complete. I don’t believe that quality can be learned; it’s just there, primitive and compelling. The only time I experienced a similar reaction was when I saw Elvis Presley perform in Las Vegas.”
HI STEVE
1 Thanks for the additional information about Shelley/Streetcar/Elvis.
2 It strikes me that my reference to America’s NEW No 1 Worker might have misled you into thinking I was meaning Trump whereas I was referring to someone very close to this site and I am sure you can guess who OUR greatest worker is !!
Hello Steve,
May I ask you in all your video , do you Have one about Dietrich and could you give me the link and if you Have not one could you do one because it is very interresting
I see the Darnell and some others but I dont find Dietrich in the sites.
Thanks for your answer.
Bye
Pierre
Hello Pierre, I did do a video on Marlene Dietrich some time last year, Bruce’s site doesn’t allow links but if you look at his Angela Lansbury page there is a link to my Lansbury video, clicking the title on that video should take you the Lansbury page on my channel, from there if you click on my home page – Top 10 Charts – there is a search button on the page – type in Dietrich and you should find the video. Good luck.
Thanks Steve and good week end
Or you could just go to youtube type “Dietrich highest rated movies” in the search box and my video should be at the top.
Thanks, you too.
Hey Steve,….I will get that link posted here.
Hello Steve,
I got it and I saw it several Time I should to write a comment for you on the site but I Have a connexion problem so I go where I çan write.
A very good video , good music too and I find out some posters that I dont know.
So thank you but I think, it miss some films like Angel and Song of Songs.
Bye and good day
Pierre
By the way it was fun and Nice to meet Bruce and Flora on the comments of your video s Dietrich, I like that
I Forget to write it
Bye and see you
Pierre
Hi Pierre glad you found the video. I can’t remember what I did back then but unlike Bruce I don’t include every movie so some do get left behind, sorry about that. I just try to make sure the 10 best are on there and the rest is a mixture of critical, popular and better than average movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZqwL48g4nE
Hey Pierre….Steve’s Marlene Dietrich video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZqwL48g4nE
Thank you kindly sir. You’re a real gentleman.
Hello Bruce , Hello Steve,
I got it and thank you very much both of you.
Hey Pierre….glad you found and liked the link.
Hey Steve good Winters stories…good to know Elvis and Brando had the same vibe.
Hey Bob…..good review on Steve’s latest video…even if you are siding with him. I will be checking out his latest tomorrow.
Interesting, though she was far from a favorite. Did she star in moves where she was the lead? My top 3 Alfie, A Place In The Sun and going off the board Harper though that was more due to Newman than Shelly.
Hey Stein….I think her leading roles were in the late 1940s and early 1950s….but I think it is safe to say that she quickly fell into the supporting mode pretty quickly. I like all three of your favorites. Thanks for stopping by.
“Manny! Manny! Manny!” How many times does Shelley Winters say that during The Poseidon Adventure? Answers on a postcard to this address… 🙂
I’ve only seen 12 of the 60 films listed here, yeah looks like I’m not the biggest Winters fan around here. Well Flora only managed 21 so I don’t feel too bad. Only three favorites of mine here – Poseidon Adventure “Manny!” (stop it Steve!), Winchester 73 and of course.. Night of the Hunter. The rest you can bin… “Manny!” I’m kidding.
Forgot to mention Delta Force starring the legendary Chuck Norris, a guilty pleasure movie and I have it on blu-ray, he proudly proclaimed.
Movies I haven’t seen include – A Patch of Blue and The Diary of Anne Frank and What’s the Matter with Manny!
Another top job Bruce. Voted Up!
Hey Steve.
1. Wow…I really need to re-watch The Poseidon Adventure …as your Manny reference is going right over my head.
2. When I do re-watch it (almost did that Friday night) I will count the Mannys.
3. Tally count…..Flora 21….me 17…(wow a 2nd place finish) and you 12.
4. I have seen Winchester 73…..but have to admit I do not remember her part very well…..did she play Stewart’s brother?….lol.
5. A Patch of Blue and The Diary Of Anne Frank are good but certainly not fun movies to watch…but she is good in both movies.
6. What’s The Matter With Manny! Is a classic.
As always thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Bruce, I can’t remember her in Winchester 73 either, one of the best James Stewart westerns of the 50s. I need to watch it again. If I remember Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson are in there somewhere too.
Manny was Shelley’s husband in Poseidon Adventure. She saves Gene Hackman and he saves them at the finale, so if it wasn’t for Winters they would all be dead. Maaannneee! 🙂
Hey Steve….I actually re-watched the Manny Adventure on Sunday….and yes I counted the Manny mentions…I actually did not pick up the first one until about the 42 minute mark….but after that she says Manny 12 more times. The movie was not as good as I remembered….though I still enjoyed the underwater scene…..and yes she saved the day. Was glad Manny was one of the survivors….now I guess I need to re-watch Michael Caine’s Beyond the Poseidon…I barely remember any of that movie….just like Winters part in Winchester 73….lol.
Hi
Shelley Winters’ career survived so long because she wisely went down the character role parts. She was terrific in A Place In the Sun. It must have been quite shocking at the time when Montgomery Clift killed her with a paddle on the boat. Come to think of it, the only other murder I’ve seen similar to it was in Talented Mr.Ripley, the victim being Jude Law.
Anyway back to Shirley, I loved her in Alfie, a small part but she made it memorable. Her career has been littered with so many supporting roles and of course there’s The Poseidon Adventure. It was a really sad part in the film when she died.
Incidentally, on Youtube there’s a wonderful channel called Tired Old Queen at the Movies, where this guy reviews classic movies, he’s very camp but really funny and gives fantastic reviews and detailed history of some of the actors involved. Worth looking up.
Hey Chris…..I agree that her career survived so long because she so easily transitioned into supporting character roles. Her death in A Place In The Sun was very shocking…especially since she was with baby. Michael Caine gave Winters lots of credit for his success in Alfie…..she is very good in that one. I have had a urge to re-watch The Poseidon Adventure..I remember her swimming/death scene but not much more of her part…seems every page I write these days stars a cast or crew member of Poseidon Adventure…John Williams, Ernest Borgnine and now Winters…I bought it on blu-ray about a year ago…and never got around to watching it. I will have to check out Tired Old Queen…as it sounds interesting.