Transcript: Profile: Oscar-winner Shelley Winters dies at 85

JACKI LYDEN
Weekend All Things Considered (NPR)
01-14-2006
Profile: Oscar-winner Shelley Winters dies at 85

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Outspoken Oscar-winning actress, Shelley Winters, who made more than 100 movies during a career that spanned some 60 years, died today of heart failure in Beverly Hills. NPR's Allison Keyes has this remembrance.

ALLISON KEYES reporting:

She was born Shirley Schrift and started taking acting lessons in high school in Brooklyn, New York. She later toiled as a dress model by day and worked as a chorus girl at night. After a series of supporting roles on the stage, ...

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