Shelley Winters won Best Supporting Actress twice, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and was nominated twice more.
The Night of the Hunter gives her the most disturbing image in her filmography, and A Place in the Sun the earlier nomination.
The Poseidon Adventure brought a late nomination for an underwater swimming sequence she performed at fifty-two, having gained weight for the role. She was a founding member of the Actors Studio and wrote two candid memoirs.
James MasonLolita (1962) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kubrick adapted a novel about a predator by removing everything the Production Code forbade, which was most of the subject. He later said that had he understood the censorship…
Julia Foster1966 Lewis Gilbert drama with Michael Caine breaking the fourth wall as a London womanizer facing the cost of his lifestyle. The film depicts Alfie Elkins, a young London chauffeur who treats women as conquests instead of as people.
Carol LynleyGene Hackman, Shelley Winters, and the founding document of 1970s disaster cinema. The Poseidon Adventure is the founding document of the 1970s disaster genre.
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