Shelley Winters
Actor
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. A two-time Academy Award winner, Winters is probably most remembered for her roles in A Place in the Sun, The Big Knife, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, and The Poseidon Adventure.
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La Bomba (1999)
As: Prof. Summers
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Giulio Base
Stars: Rocco Papaleo | Alessandro Gassman | Enrico Brignano | Vittorio Gassman | Lola Pagnani
Gideon (1999)
As: Mrs. Willows
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement home where he finds the residents have lost their lust for life. Through his innocence he changes their lives and teaches them that each day is a precious gift. They get back their self-esteem and their lust for life.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Claudia Hoover
Stars: Christopher Lambert | Charlton Heston | Shelley Winters | Carroll O'Connor | Crystal Bernard
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
As: Mrs. Touchett
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent ...
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Jane Campion
Stars: Christian Bale | Nicole Kidman | Mary-Louise Parker | John Malkovich | Barbara Hershey
Raging Angels (1995)
As: Grandma Ruth
Two musicians are unknowingly drawn into a supernatural scheme.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Alan Smithee
Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery | Diane Ladd | Arielle Dombasle | Michael Paré | Monet Mazur
Jury Duty (1995)
As: Mrs. Collins
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: John Fortenberry
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Brian Doyle-Murray | Pauly Shore | Abe Vigoda | Tia Carrere
Backfire! (1995)
As: The Good Lieutenant
Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysteriously erupting from toilets all over the City and Fire Marshal Marc Marshall is called in to investigate. From the start, Jeremy is heckled and sexually harassed by his tough as nails female cohorts including his instructor, the hard-boiled Lt. Shithouse. Jessica Luvintryst, Jeremy's old flame and the Mayor's ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: A. Dean Bell
Stars: Shelley Winters | Robert Mitchum | Kathy Ireland | Telly Savalas | Josh Mosby
Heavy (1995)
As: Dolly Modino
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: James Mangold
Stars: Liv Tyler | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Joe Grifasi | Shelley Winters | Debbie Harry
Mrs. Munck (1995)
As: Aunt Monica
A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Diane Ladd
Stars: Kelly Preston | Diane Ladd | Bruce Dern | Shelley Winters | Jim Walton
Silence Of The Hams (1994)
As: Mrs. Motel (The Mother)
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Ezio Greggio
Stars: Billy Zane | Charlene Tilton | Ezio Greggio | Dom DeLuise | Joanna Pacula
The Pickle (1993)
As: Yetta
Director Paul Mazursky (Scenes From a Mall) takes a bite out of Hollywood with a hilarious look at the artistic sell-out. Starring Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon Shelly Winters, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn, and Ally Sheedy, this merciless comedy exposes the underside of themovie land commercialism with a crisp sense of humor, a knowing edge, and supporting cast boasting the talents of Clotilde Courau, Barry ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Danny Aiello | Clotilde Courau | Barry Miller | Shelley Winters | Dyan Cannon
Weep No More, My Lady (1992)
As: Vivian Morgan
When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is her husband Ted. Adapted from the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Michel Andrieu
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | Francesca Annis | Daniel J. Travanti | Cecile Paoli | Pascal Ternisien
Stepping Out (1991)
As: Mrs. Fraser
Mavis (Liza Minnelli) was a chorus line dancer on Broadway. Just as she was on the verge of getting more prominent roles, she fell in love. Her full-of-himself boyfriend moved them to Buffalo, far from the theater scene. As a musician, he plays with a band in the local clubs, often with the very talented Mavis singing at his elbow. But, they are just two bit players, mostly because of his total lack of ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Liza Minnelli | Jane Krakowski | Robyn Stevan | Shelley Winters | Bill Irwin
An Unremarkable Life (1989)
As: Evelyn McEllany
The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Amin Q. Chaudhri
Stars: Charles S. Dutton | Shelley Winters | Patricia Neal | Madeleine Sherwood | Mako
Purple People Eater (1988)
As: Rita
A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Linda Shayne
Stars: Neil Patrick Harris | Ned Beatty | Peggy Lipton | Shelley Winters | Chubby Checker
The Delta Force (1986)
As: Edie Kaplan
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) has been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Menahem Golan
Stars: Chuck Norris | Martin Balsam | Shelley Winters | Lee Marvin | Joey Bishop
Witchfire (1986)
As: Lydia
When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her even crazier companions hide out in a house in a rural area where, years ago, the woman had set fire to her parents.
Directed by: Vincent J. Privitera
Stars: Shelley Winters | Peter Masterson | Francesca De Sapio | Vanessa Blanchard | Corinne Chateau
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
As: The Dodo Bird
Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she finds that she has ended up on the other side of the looking glass in Looking Glass Land and a Jabberwocky after her.
Runtime: 187 min.
Directed by: Harry Harris
Stars: Red Buttons | Shelley Winters | Donald O'Connor | Natalie Gregory | Sammy Davis, Jr.
Deja Vu (1985)
As: Olga Nabokova
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous wife, a ballerina.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Anthony B. Richmond
Stars: Claire Bloom | Shelley Winters | Nigel Terry | Jaclyn Smith | Richard Kay
Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
As: Becky
A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Menahem Golan
Stars: Elliott Gould | Carol Kane | Margaux Hemingway | Burt Young | Sid Caesar
Ellie (1984)
Set in the backwoods of the deep south. Young, beautiful Ellie has just witnessed the murder of her father at the hands of her evil step-mother Cora and Cora's three lecherous sons, all hoping to get their hand's on Ellie's father's money. Vowing to avenge her father's death, Ellie plots to do in the murderers using the only weapon she has: her body.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Peter Wittman
Stars: Edward Albert | Shelley Winters | Pat Paulsen | Sheila Kennedy
Fanny Hill (1983)
As: Mrs. Cole
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself and find happiness in life once again.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Gerry O'Hara
Stars: Oliver Reed | Shelley Winters | Alfred Marks | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Lisa Foster
S.O.B. (1981)
As: Eva Brown
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Marisa Berenson | Robert Loggia | Larry Hagman | William Holden
Looping (1981)
As: Carmen
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Walter Bockmayer | Rolf Bührmann
Stars: Sydne Rome | Shelley Winters | Ingrid Caven | Hans Christian Blech | Barbara Valentin
The Magician of Lublin (1979)
As: Elzbieta
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Menahem Golan
Stars: Louise Fletcher | Alan Arkin | Zachi Noy | Shelley Winters | Valerie Perrine
City on Fire (1979)
As: Nurse Andrea Harper
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Alvin Rakoff
Stars: Leslie Nielsen | Shelley Winters | Susan Clark | James Franciscus | Barry Newman
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
As: Crystal
Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from melting until the Fourth of July so that Frosty and Rudolph can help Lilly's circus and Milton can marry his girlfriend on the high-wire, and Santa will use his sleigh ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Arthur Rankin, Jr. | Jules Bass
Stars: Red Buttons | Mickey Rooney | Ethel Merman | Jackie Vernon | Alan Sues
The Visitor (1979)
As: Jane Phillips
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Giulio Paradisi
Stars: Lance Henriksen | Joanne Nail | Sam Peckinpah | John Huston | Glenn Ford
Elvis (1979)
As: Gladys Presley
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: John Carpenter
Stars: Kurt Russell | Shelley Winters | Bing Russell | Season Hubley | Robert Grayson
King of the Gypsies (1978)
As: Queen Rachel
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Frank Pierson
Stars: Eric Roberts | Susan Sarandon | Shelley Winters | Sterling Hayden | Judd Hirsch
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
As: Mrs. Erica Hunter
A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Day
Stars: Kathryn Grant | Morgan Fairchild | Shelley Winters | Tony Bill | Kay Lenz
Pete's Dragon (1977)
As: Lena Gogan
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Don Chaffey
Stars: Helen Reddy | Red Buttons | Mickey Rooney | Jim Dale | Sean Marshall
Tentacles (1977)
As: Tillie Turner
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Ovidio G. Assonitis
Stars: Bo Hopkins | Shelley Winters | John Huston | Henry Fonda | Claude Akins
An Average Little Man (1977)
As: Amalia Vivaldi
Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. For this, Giovanni will stop at nothing...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Paolo Paoloni | Alberto Sordi | Shelley Winters | Vincenzo Crocitti | Romolo Valli
Gran bollito (1977)
As: Lea
Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Max von Sydow | Antonio Marsina | Shelley Winters | Milena Vukotic | Mario Scaccia
Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)
As: Crystal
Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but his promise is kept when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season, and decides to return.
Runtime: 25 min.
Directed by: Arthur Rankin, Jr. | Jules Bass
Stars: Shelley Winters | Paul Frees | Dennis Day | Andy Griffith | Jackie Vernon
The Tenant (1976)
As: The Concierge
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Roman Polański
Stars: Isabelle Adjani | Roman Polański | Shelley Winters | Bernard Fresson | Melvyn Douglas
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
As: Faye Lapinsky
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Ellen Greene | Lois Smith | Christopher Walken | Shelley Winters | Lenny Baker
Diamonds (1975)
As: Zelda Shapiro
Richard Roundtree (SHAFT), Robert Shaw (JAWS) and $100 Million of the Hottest Rocks in the World!
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Menahem Golan
Stars: Richard Roundtree | Barbara Hershey | Shelley Winters | Robert Shaw
Journey Into Fear (1975)
As: Mrs. Mathews
U.S geologist (Sam Waterston) discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Stars: Ian McShane | Sam Waterston | Zero Mostel | Joseph Wiseman | Yvette Mimieux
Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
As: Bertha
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David Worth | Richard Robinson
Stars: Shelley Winters | Slim Pickens | Ted Cassidy | Leslie Uggams | Michael Christian
The Sex Symbol (1974)
As: Agatha Murphy
A thinly disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributes to her deteriorating career.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Shelley Winters | William Castle | Connie Stevens | Jack Carter
The Stone Killer (1973)
As: Drunk Woman in Police Station
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Charles Bronson | Martin Balsam | Paul Koslo | Jack Colvin | Stuart Margolin
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
As: Mommy
A United States Special Agent is assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. After she burns a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug-lord Mommy is furious at the loss of her supply and vows to destroy her.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jack Starrett
Stars: Antonio Fargas | Bernie Casey | Shelley Winters | Tamara Dobson | Brenda Sykes
Blume In Love (1973)
As: Mrs. Cramer
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) catches him cheating on her. She, in turn, moves on and falls into an easy-going relationship with an even more easy-going musician (Kris Kristofferson in one of ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: George Segal | Kris Kristofferson | Marsha Mason | Shelley Winters | Susan Anspach
The Devil's Daughter (1973)
As: Lilith Malone
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: Belinda Montgomery | Shelley Winters | Martha Scott | Jonathan Frid | Robert Foxworth
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
As: Belle Rosen
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Ronald Neame
Stars: Ernest Borgnine | Roddy McDowall | Red Buttons | Gene Hackman | Carol Lynley
The Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
As: Bess Tucker
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Paul Krasny
Stars: Shelley Winters | Neville Brand | Broderick Crawford | Pernell Roberts | Robert Conrad
Something to Hide (1972)
As: Gabriella Field
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Alastair Reid
Stars: Linda Hayden | Shelley Winters | John Stride | Colin Blakely | Peter Finch
A Death of Innocence (1971)
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Stars: Shelley Winters | Harold Gould | John Randolph | Arthur Kennedy | Antoinette Bower
Revenge (1971)
As: Amanda Hilton
A deranged mother avenges herself on the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Jud Taylor
Stars: Roger Perry | Stuart Whitman | Shelley Winters | Bradford Dillman | Carol Eve Rossen
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
As: Mrs. Forrest
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Curtis Harrington
Stars: Shelley Winters | Ralph Richardson | Mark Lester | Hugh Griffith | Chloe Franks
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
As: Helen
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Curtis Harrington
Stars: Shelley Winters | Debbie Reynolds | Agnes Moorehead | Dennis Weaver | Micheál MacLiammóir
Flap (1970)
As: Dorothy Bluebell
Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Carol Reed
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Shelley Winters | Tony Bill | Claude Akins | Victor Jory
Bloody Mama (1970)
As: 'Ma' Kate Barker
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker (Shelley Winters) grows into a violently powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons, and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman (Don Stroud), who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred (Robert Walden), an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd (Robert De Niro), who gets high on ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Roger Corman
Stars: Robert De Niro | Bruce Dern | Pat Hingle | Shelley Winters | Don Stroud
The Mad Room (1969)
As: Mrs. Armstrong
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Bernard Girard
Stars: Stella Stevens | Shelley Winters | Skip Ward | Severn Darden | Carol Cole
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
As: Shirley Newman
Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has been telling each of them that they are the father of her daughter Gia, so they have all been paying well for her upbringing. As this dawns on the threesome old rivalries surface .... the the comedy ensues.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Melvin Frank
Stars: Shelley Winters | Peter Lawford | Telly Savalas | Phil Silvers | Gina Lollobrigida
The Scalphunters (1968)
As: Kate
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Dabney Coleman | Ossie Davis | Shelley Winters | Telly Savalas | Burt Lancaster
Wild in the Streets (1968)
As: Mrs. Daphne Flatow
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Barry Shear
Stars: Shelley Winters | Millie Perkins | Hal Holbrook | Diane Varsi | Christopher Jones
Enter Laughing (1967)
As: Mrs. Emma Kolowitz
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Stars: Shelley Winters | Elaine May | José Ferrer | Reni Santoni | Jack Gilford
Alfie (1966)
As: Ruby
The film tells the story of a young man who leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Michael Caine | Shelley Winters | Jane Asher | Julia Foster | Millicent Martin
Harper (1966)
As: Fay Estabrook
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Jack Smight
Stars: Janet Leigh | Paul Newman | Lauren Bacall | Julie Harris | Arthur Hill
A Patch of Blue (1965)
As: Rose-Ann D'Arcey
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Guy Green
Stars: Shelley Winters | Sidney Poitier | Ivan Dixon | Wallace Ford | Elizabeth Hartman
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
As: Woman who is healed
All-star epic retelling of Christ's life.
Runtime: 225 min.
Directed by: George Stevens
Stars: Max von Sydow | Victor Buono | Carroll Baker | Ina Balin | Michael Anderson Jr.
A House Is Not a Home (1964)
As: Polly Adler
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Russell Rouse
Stars: Shelley Winters | Cesar Romero | Robert Taylor | Kaye Ballard | Ralph Taeger
Gli indifferenti (1964)
As: Lisa
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Francesco Maselli
Stars: Claudia Cardinale | Shelley Winters | Rod Steiger | Paulette Goddard | Tomás Milián
Wives and Lovers (1963)
As: Fran Cabrell
Wives and Lovers is a 1963 film directed by John Rich. It stars Janet Leigh and Van Johnson. Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play. A new house in Connecticut is the first way to ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: John Rich
Stars: Janet Leigh | Shelley Winters | Martha Hyer | Van Johnson | Ray Walston
The Balcony (1963)
As: Madame Irma
Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Joseph Strick
Stars: Peter Falk | Leonard Nimoy | Shelley Winters | Ruby Dee | Lee Grant
The Chapman Report (1962)
As: Sarah Garnell
Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a research psychologist who becomes entangled ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: George Cukor
Stars: Claire Bloom | Glynis Johns | Shelley Winters | Jane Fonda | Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Lolita (1962)
As: Charlotte Haze
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Runtime: 153 min.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Shelley Winters | James Mason | Peter Sellers | Lois Maxwell | Sue Lyon
The Young Savages (1961)
As: Mary diPace
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Dina Merrill | Shelley Winters | Burt Lancaster | Edward Andrews | Vivian Nathan
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
As: Nellie Romano
In this sequel to "Knock On Any Door", the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father's footsteps...to the electric chair.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Philip Leacock
Stars: Shelley Winters | Jean Seberg | Ricardo Montalban | Burl Ives | James Darren
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
As: Lorry
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Harry Belafonte | Shelley Winters | Robert Ryan | Gloria Grahame | Ed Begley
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
As: Auguste Van Pels
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: George Stevens
Stars: Richard Beymer | Shelley Winters | Millie Perkins | Joseph Schildkraut | Gusti Huber
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
As: Marie Garson
I Died a Thousand Times is essentially a remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Mac (Lon Chaney Jr.), Earle is commissioned to mastermind the robbery of a resort hotel. His partners ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Stars: Jack Palance | Shelley Winters | Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | Lee Marvin | Lori Nelson
The Big Knife (1955)
As: Dixie Evans
An unscrupulous movie producer blackmails an unhappy star - who opted for box-office success over art- into signing a new contract.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Jack Palance | Rod Steiger | Ida Lupino | Wendell Corey | Jean Hagen
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
As: Ruth Harris
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: George Sherman
Stars: Shelley Winters | Gilbert Roland | Rory Calhoun | Joseph Calleia | Fanny Schiller
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
As: Willa Harper
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Charles Laughton
Stars: Shelley Winters | Robert Mitchum | James Gleason | Lillian Gish | Billy Chapin
I Am a Camera (1955)
As: Natalia Landauer
In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in Berlin, meets the vivacious, penniless singer Sally Bowles. They develop a platonic relationship while Sally has a wild time spending other peoples money.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Henry Cornelius
Stars: Shelley Winters | Julie Harris | Laurence Harvey | Ron Randell | Lea Seidl
To Dorothy, A Son (1954)
As: Myrtle La Mar
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Muriel Box
Stars: Shelley Winters | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Mona Washbourne | Peggy Cummins | John Gregson
Mambo (1954)
As: Toni Salerno
Silvana Mangano (a very lovely & sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. She is struggling with an difficult life as a shop assistant when one day a young count Enrico sees her in the glass shop where she works. She gets invited to the masquerade ball (ah - if they would have parties like this now - oh wow) with the help of her unscrupulous boyfriend Mario's dirty ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Robert Rossen
Stars: Shelley Winters | Silvana Mangano | Vittorio Gassman | Michael Rennie
Tennessee Champ (1954)
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
Stars: Charles Bronson | Shelley Winters | Keenan Wynn | Dewey Martin | Earl Holliman
Executive Suite (1954)
As: Eva Bardeman
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Walter Pidgeon | William Holden | Barbara Stanwyck | June Allyson | Fredric March
Playgirl (1954)
As: Fran Davis
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. This film will give you the chance to see her as a sexy nightclub singer teaching her just-in-from-the-sticks friend Colleen Miller the ropes in New York City. When Winters finds out that her married boyfriend Barry Sullivan has fallen for Miller, the ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Shelley Winters | Barry Sullivan | Gregg Palmer | Richard Long | Colleen Miller
Saskatchewan (1954)
As: Grace Markey
Alan Ladd and Jay Silverheels (television's Tonto) are blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Shelley Winters | Robert Douglas | J. Carrol Naish | Hugh O'Brian | Alan Ladd
My Man and I (1952)
As: Nancy
Chu Chu Ramirez is a Mexican farm laborer in California, with lofty ideals, who is very proud of his new American citizenship. During his time off, he tries to befriend the alcoholic bar girl Nancy. After working for a month for the subsistence farmer Mr. Ames and his frustrated wife, Chu Chu discovers that his paycheck bounces and Ames stalls in paying him. Just after a confrontation between ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Stars: Shelley Winters | Ricardo Montalban | Wendell Corey | Claire Trevor | Robert Burton
Untamed Frontier (1952)
As: Jane Stevens
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Stars: Shelley Winters | Joseph Cotten | Scott Brady | Minor Watson | Suzan Ball
Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
As: Joy Carroll
A lounge singer sees his career skyrocket after he signs a contract for a mobster nightclub owner. Director Joseph Pevney's 1952 drama--with numerous songs--stars Frank Sinatra, Raymond Burr, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, Tommy Farrell, Vaughn Taylor, Donald MacBride, Jack Kruschen and in a small role, Tony Curtis.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Shelley Winters | Raymond Burr | Alex Nicol | Frank Sinatra | Vaughn Taylor
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
As: Binky Gay
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Shelley Winters | Keenan Wynn | Gary Merrill | Evelyn Varden | Michael Rennie
The Raging Tide (1951)
As: Connie Thatcher
A hood hides out on a fishing boat to avoid the cops.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: George Sherman
Stars: Shelley Winters | Richard Conte | Stephen McNally | Charles Bickford | Alex Nicol
He Ran All The Way (1951)
As: Peggy Dobbs
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: John Berry
Stars: Shelley Winters | Selena Royle | John Garfield | Wallace Ford | Robert Hyatt
A Place in the Sun (1951)
As: Alice Tripp
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: George Stevens
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor | Shelley Winters | Montgomery Clift | Keefe Brasselle | Anne Revere
Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: George Beck
Stars: Shelley Winters | Farley Granger | Sheldon Leonard | Elisha Cook Jr. | Lon Chaney Jr.
Frenchie (1950)
As: Frenchie Fontaine
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Louis King
Stars: Shelley Winters | Elsa Lanchester | Marie Windsor | Joel McCrea | Paul Kelly
South Sea Sinner (1950)
As: Coral
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much." But Coral's slimy boss Cognac gets her a reprieve so she can learn Jake's secret. In the process, Coral gets a bit too fond of Jake, who (suspected of wartime collaboration ) resolves on new efforts to clear ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
Stars: Shelley Winters | Macdonald Carey | Liberace
Winchester '73 (1950)
As: Lola Manners
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Stars: Shelley Winters | James Stewart | Millard Mitchell | Stephen McNally | Dan Duryea
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
As: Terry Stewart
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: William Castle
Stars: Shelley Winters | Tony Curtis | John McIntire | Dan Duryea | Howard Duff
The Great Gatsby (1949)
As: Myrtle Wilson
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Elliott Nugent
Stars: Barry Sullivan | Ruth Hussey | Macdonald Carey | Alan Ladd | Betty Field
Take One False Step (1949)
As: Catherine Sykes
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Next day Catherine is missing, believed killed; friend Martha convinces Andrew that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. But this only puts Andrew in a more deadly kind of danger.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Chester Erskine
Stars: Shelley Winters | James Gleason | Dorothy Hart | Marsha Hunt | William Powell
Cry of the City (1948)
As: Brenda Martingale
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Shelley Winters | Richard Conte | Fred Clark | Victor Mature | Betty Garde
Larceny (1948)
As: Tory
John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow (Joan Caulfied) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss (Dan Duryea), who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: George Sherman
Stars: Shelley Winters | Dan Duryea | Dorothy Hart | John Payne | Joan Caulfield
Red River (1948)
As: Dance Hall Girl in Wagon Train
Dunson is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne | Coleen Gray | Walter Brennan | Montgomery Clift | Joanne Dru
A Double Life (1947)
As: Pat Kroll
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: George Cukor
Stars: Shelley Winters | Signe Hasso | Edmond O'Brien | Ray Collins | Ronald Colman
The Gangster (1947)
As: Hazel
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Gordon Wiles
Stars: Barry Sullivan | Harry Morgan | Joan Lorring | Akim Tamiroff | Belita
New Orleans (1947)
As: Mrs. Holmbright
It's the Lowdown on Wicked Old Basin Street!
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Louis Armstrong | Dorothy Patrick | Marjorie Lord | Arturo de Córdova | Billie Holiday
Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
As: Ulda Tienhoven
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Harry Joe Brown
Stars: Shelley Winters | Charles Coburn | Constance Dowling | Otto Kruger | Nelson Eddy
There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
As: Norma
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Stars: John Hubbard | Bruce Bennett | Jeff Donnell | Tom Neal | Evelyn Keyes