Shirley (Schrift) Winters (1920 - 2006)

Born 18 Aug 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Mack Paul (Mayerovitch) Mayer — married 29 Dec 1942 (to 1948) in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

Wife of Vittorio Gassman — married 28 Apr 1952 (to 2 Jun 1954) in Juarez, Mexico

Died 14 Jan 2006 at age 85 in Beverly Hills, California, USA

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Biography

Shelley (Schrift) Winters is Notable.

American film and television actress using the name Shelley Winters.

Birth name: Shirley Schrift. Daughter of Jonas Shrift & Rose Winters.

Married four times: Captain Mack Paul Mayer, Vittorio Gassman, Anthony Franciosa, Gerry DeFord.

Sinatra Feud Shelley and Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) filmed one movie together, Meet Danny Wilson. They got along in the beginning, with him helping her rehearse their duet but things took a turn when she turned down his alleged attempt to sleep with her combined with the stress of his pending divorce from first wife, Nancy and his combative affair with Ava Gardner. The two actors engaged in arguments with some abundant name calling, one of which ended with Shelley punching him in the face. In a scene with Shelley in a hospital bed he changed one of his lines to threaten to pull her hair out so she responded by hitting him with a metal bedpan. She walked off the set and refused to come back until Nancy begged her to. They did eventually make up in a fashion but never worked together again.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Winters
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X45S-QHK : accessed 25 June 2018), Shirley Schrift in household of Jones Schrift, Queens (Districts 0251-0500), Queens, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 323, sheet 9B, line 99, family 195, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1597; FHL microfilm 2,341,332.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQS9-BF3 : accessed 25 June 2018), Shirley Schrift in household of Jonas Schrift, Assembly District 21, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 24-2491D, sheet 1B, line 74, family 26, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2612.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J5VJ-KM9 : 20 May 2014), Shelley Winters, 14 Jan 2006; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13021175/Shelley-Winters