Shelley Winters

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960); Lolita (1962); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); Portrait of a Lady (1996); A Patch of Blue; A Place in the Sun; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Scalp Hunters.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Lolita (1955 novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Lolita (1962), which they acted in: Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read). The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot.
    “They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. theme (character type (Desi)) · through Lolita (1962), which they acted in: Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary). On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris.
    “Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (9) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (same role): Shelley Winters → Melanie Griffith. In the Lyne film Melanie Griffith plays the Winters part quietly, aware the Winters performance is infamous.
    “She's just like, well, I know the Shelley Winters performance is infamous.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:07:35 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (difficult takes): Shelley Winters → Jane Campion. The making-of for Winters' final film, Campion's Portrait of a Lady, shows her overwhelmed on every take.
    “we also watched the making of thing for Portrait of Lady, her final film”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:26:12 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Friday the 13th → Shelley Winters. Shelley Winters turned down the role; Palmer took it for a new car.
    “Shelley Winters turned it down.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:18:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Shelley Winters: Winters campaigned for JFK so hard she demanded the shoot work around the election, with inauguration attendance written into her contract.
    “was campaigning for JFK so hard that she demanded the movie be shot around that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:25:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Shelley Winters: Kubrick reportedly almost fired Winters on set.
    “At one point, apparently Stanley Kubrick almost fired her and said, I think that lady's going to have to go.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)