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Source: NPR "All Things Considered"
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Oscar-Winner Shelley Winters Dies at 85 [4min]

Actress Shelley Winters, who won Academy Awards for her roles in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, has died. She was 85. Winters sustained her long career by repeatedly reinventing herself, from chorus girl to character actress. A Short List of Winters' Memorable Films: The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Wild in the Streets (1968), Alfie (1966), A Patch of Blue (1965), Lolita (1962), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), The Night of the Hunter (1955), A Place in the Sun (1951).
Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"