Ice storms, school closings, illness, malaise — under what better conditions could I have read Shelley Winters’ autobiography? Instead of being stuck in sleety Charlottesville this week, I was partying all over 50’s Hollywood with Shelley and pals, at least in my mind.
Winters’ story is really remarkable, even if you discount half of it as lies or exaggerations. She was starring on Broadway, married to a WWII Air Force hero, signed by a majorHollywood studio, and divorced, all before she was old enough to vote. Friends, lovers, and husbands included Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, William Holdman, Vittorio Gassmann, and more, more, more. She shared an apartment with Marilyn Monroe!
This is the just first volume of her biography, thank goodness, which takes us up through her marriage to and divorce from Gassmann. I can’t wait for more of Shelley.
