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I'm sorry to hear of her passing. To bve honest, I was hot and cold with her career. Loved her in Nashville, Roxanne, and especially 3 Women. I could never make a clear commitment regarding her performance in The Shining though. Sometimes I think it's Ok and other times I find it shrill and annoying. Nicholson owns the film anyway so it's irrelevant. RIP.
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Everyone I know who has seen it says she and Olive Oyl in Robert Altman's Popeye was the perfect marrage of actress and character. I've never seen it.
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Man this one bites hard. She had just got back into acting, and I was extremely eager to see what she was going to do in the years to come. I adored her in 3 Women, I really did.
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RIP Shelly
What a unique look and talent.
What a unique look and talent.
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Man this one bites hard. She had just got back into acting, and I was extremely eager to see what she was going to do in the years to come. I adored her in 3 Women, I really did.
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Sad news...I haven't seen her in much, count me as another person who's never seen Popeye. I've seen her in her bigger films: Nashville, Roxanne, The Shining. Count me as a fan of 3 Women and Shelley Duvall's performance in it.
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Los Angeles Times obituary...
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Shelley Duvall, scream queen of The Shining and a well-cast Olive Oyl, dies at 75
The Los Angeles Times
By Alexandra Del RosarioStaff Writer
July 11, 2024
Shelley Duvall wasn’t a stranger to rejection. In the 1980s, television executives struggled to take the actor seriously as a producer when she pitched her idea to turn fairy tales into live-action shows. But she knew networks “needed me as much as I needed them,” and she made it happen anyway. With the eventual green light from Showtime and an all-star roster featuring Robin Williams, Teri Garr, Jeff Bridges, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, and Vanessa Redgrave, Duvall’s “Faerie Tale Theatre” became a reality. Even more, it became part of Duvall’s Hollywood legacy — which at the time joined memorable performances in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, Robert Altman’s 3 Women, Thieves Like Us, and Popeye, and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. “If I had listened to everyone who told me no, I’d never have gotten anything accomplished,” Duvall told The Times in 1991. “When I really believe in something and someone says, ‘You can’t do it,’ it just spurs me on.”
Duvall, whose piercing scream famously punctuated the many horrors of The Shining, died Thursday morning. She was 75. Daniel Gilroy, Duvall’s longtime partner, confirmed that she died at her home in Blanco, Texas, of complications from diabetes. “She had been suffering a lot lately,” Gilroy said, and had lived several months in hospice care. “This was not unexpected.” “I think of her as a bird in a way, and now she’s free to just fly away,” he said.
Just years before bringing the vibrant whimsy of “Faerie Tale Theatre” to the small screen, Duvall concerned herself with the chilling world of Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining. She starred as Wendy Torrance, the docile wife of Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance. The film follows a college professor who travels with his family to spend a winter at the Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains and write a book. The hotel’s haunted past turns an idyllic family retreat into a gory nightmare. “Here’s Johnny!,” Nicholson’s Jack screams after he chops through a bathroom door. On the other side of the wall, Duvall cowers in a corner with a knife in her hand. The encounter easily made for one of the film’s most iconic moments.
The Shining continued to live on with Duvall far after the cameras cut. In 2021, Duvall told the Hollywood Reporter about the lasting trauma from her performance and Kubrick’s grueling approach to filming. “To wake up on a Monday morning, so early, and realize that you had to cry all day because it was scheduled — I would just start crying,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. “I’d be like, ‘Oh no, I can’t, I can’t.’ And yet I did it. I don’t know how I did it. Jack said that to me too. He said, ‘I don’t know how you do it.’”
Duvall had opened up about her career years after she made headlines for a concerning appearance on “Dr. Phil” in 2016. She told host Dr. Phil McGraw that she was being threatened by a man and suggested that her Popeye co-star Williams, who died in 2014, was still alive. She also revealed that she was facing mental health issues. After the interview, fans criticized McGraw for “showboating the visibly ill.”
Duvall retreated from Hollywood for decades after the turn of the 20th century, but returned to acting for the 2023 indie horror film The Forest Hills. Before that, she had last appeared in films Manna From Heaven, Dreams in the Attic, and Boltneck in the early aughts.
She was born July 7, 1949, in Fort Worth and lived mostly in hotels for the first five years of her life while the family traveled with her father, who was working all over Texas for the state insurance board. Duvall was the eldest of four children and “was practically a parent to my [three] brothers,” she told The Times in 1991. She wanted to pursue a career in science, then was “discovered” in Houston during a party where three crew members on Altman’s 1970 satirical cop film Brewster McCloud were in attendance. Brewster McCloud became Duvall’s first acting job. “I thought, ‘Uh oh, a porno movie, my mom’s going to kill me!,’” Duvall told The Times.
After Brewster McCloud came McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians or: Sitting Bull's History Lesson, 3 Women, and Popeye, all for Robert Altman. In his 1980 review for Popeye, The Times’ late film critic Charles Champlin praised Duvall for “her deliciously addled, uncoordinated, petulant but finally quite endearing Olive Oyl.” Duvall’s additional film credits include The Portrait of a Lady, Roxanne, Time Bandits, and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie original short film. Her TV acting career includes appearances in “The Hughleys,” “Wishbone,” “The Adventures of Shirley Holmes,” “Fraiser”, and “Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle", which she produced. As a producer, Duvall also worked on “Tall Tales & Legends,” “Popples,” “Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme”, and “Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories”, among others.
Duvall married Bernard Sampson in 1970, but they divorced in 1974. She and singer Paul Simon shared a romantic relationship but broke things off before she began filming The Shining. She had been with Gilroy since the late 1980s, but the two never married.
The actor-producer was also a fashion icon — her “Faerie Tale Theatre” introduction recently inspired a TikTok sound that fashion enthusiasts have used to show off their outfits — and an animal lover who cared for multiple dogs and birds over the course of her life. Duvall celebrated her 75th birthday over the weekend. “She had lots and lots of cards and letters and well wishes from all over the place,” Gilroy said Thursday, “but she’s been bedridden now for over a month, maybe six weeks or so. She’s not been happy lately, she’s been suffering, but we made her as comfortable as possible.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ad-the-shining
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Shelley Duvall, scream queen of The Shining and a well-cast Olive Oyl, dies at 75
The Los Angeles Times
By Alexandra Del RosarioStaff Writer
July 11, 2024
Shelley Duvall wasn’t a stranger to rejection. In the 1980s, television executives struggled to take the actor seriously as a producer when she pitched her idea to turn fairy tales into live-action shows. But she knew networks “needed me as much as I needed them,” and she made it happen anyway. With the eventual green light from Showtime and an all-star roster featuring Robin Williams, Teri Garr, Jeff Bridges, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, and Vanessa Redgrave, Duvall’s “Faerie Tale Theatre” became a reality. Even more, it became part of Duvall’s Hollywood legacy — which at the time joined memorable performances in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, Robert Altman’s 3 Women, Thieves Like Us, and Popeye, and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. “If I had listened to everyone who told me no, I’d never have gotten anything accomplished,” Duvall told The Times in 1991. “When I really believe in something and someone says, ‘You can’t do it,’ it just spurs me on.”
Duvall, whose piercing scream famously punctuated the many horrors of The Shining, died Thursday morning. She was 75. Daniel Gilroy, Duvall’s longtime partner, confirmed that she died at her home in Blanco, Texas, of complications from diabetes. “She had been suffering a lot lately,” Gilroy said, and had lived several months in hospice care. “This was not unexpected.” “I think of her as a bird in a way, and now she’s free to just fly away,” he said.
Just years before bringing the vibrant whimsy of “Faerie Tale Theatre” to the small screen, Duvall concerned herself with the chilling world of Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining. She starred as Wendy Torrance, the docile wife of Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance. The film follows a college professor who travels with his family to spend a winter at the Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains and write a book. The hotel’s haunted past turns an idyllic family retreat into a gory nightmare. “Here’s Johnny!,” Nicholson’s Jack screams after he chops through a bathroom door. On the other side of the wall, Duvall cowers in a corner with a knife in her hand. The encounter easily made for one of the film’s most iconic moments.
The Shining continued to live on with Duvall far after the cameras cut. In 2021, Duvall told the Hollywood Reporter about the lasting trauma from her performance and Kubrick’s grueling approach to filming. “To wake up on a Monday morning, so early, and realize that you had to cry all day because it was scheduled — I would just start crying,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. “I’d be like, ‘Oh no, I can’t, I can’t.’ And yet I did it. I don’t know how I did it. Jack said that to me too. He said, ‘I don’t know how you do it.’”
Duvall had opened up about her career years after she made headlines for a concerning appearance on “Dr. Phil” in 2016. She told host Dr. Phil McGraw that she was being threatened by a man and suggested that her Popeye co-star Williams, who died in 2014, was still alive. She also revealed that she was facing mental health issues. After the interview, fans criticized McGraw for “showboating the visibly ill.”
Duvall retreated from Hollywood for decades after the turn of the 20th century, but returned to acting for the 2023 indie horror film The Forest Hills. Before that, she had last appeared in films Manna From Heaven, Dreams in the Attic, and Boltneck in the early aughts.
She was born July 7, 1949, in Fort Worth and lived mostly in hotels for the first five years of her life while the family traveled with her father, who was working all over Texas for the state insurance board. Duvall was the eldest of four children and “was practically a parent to my [three] brothers,” she told The Times in 1991. She wanted to pursue a career in science, then was “discovered” in Houston during a party where three crew members on Altman’s 1970 satirical cop film Brewster McCloud were in attendance. Brewster McCloud became Duvall’s first acting job. “I thought, ‘Uh oh, a porno movie, my mom’s going to kill me!,’” Duvall told The Times.
After Brewster McCloud came McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians or: Sitting Bull's History Lesson, 3 Women, and Popeye, all for Robert Altman. In his 1980 review for Popeye, The Times’ late film critic Charles Champlin praised Duvall for “her deliciously addled, uncoordinated, petulant but finally quite endearing Olive Oyl.” Duvall’s additional film credits include The Portrait of a Lady, Roxanne, Time Bandits, and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie original short film. Her TV acting career includes appearances in “The Hughleys,” “Wishbone,” “The Adventures of Shirley Holmes,” “Fraiser”, and “Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle", which she produced. As a producer, Duvall also worked on “Tall Tales & Legends,” “Popples,” “Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme”, and “Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories”, among others.
Duvall married Bernard Sampson in 1970, but they divorced in 1974. She and singer Paul Simon shared a romantic relationship but broke things off before she began filming The Shining. She had been with Gilroy since the late 1980s, but the two never married.
The actor-producer was also a fashion icon — her “Faerie Tale Theatre” introduction recently inspired a TikTok sound that fashion enthusiasts have used to show off their outfits — and an animal lover who cared for multiple dogs and birds over the course of her life. Duvall celebrated her 75th birthday over the weekend. “She had lots and lots of cards and letters and well wishes from all over the place,” Gilroy said Thursday, “but she’s been bedridden now for over a month, maybe six weeks or so. She’s not been happy lately, she’s been suffering, but we made her as comfortable as possible.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ad-the-shining
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Horrible. Completely unexpected and she had just made a return to acting. I loved her performance in The Shining, and she had a very special charm that couldn't be replicated by anyone else. A special talent and seemed like a sweet person as well. Rest in peace, dear Shelley. 
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She was an absolutely unique talent. She was a cute as a bug, and had that famous diastema that complimented her starry eyes.
I liked her in everything I saw her in. The Shining was the most famous, although it was a disgrace for that pr**k Kubrick to make her do that stair scene with the baseball bat over and over for 127 takes! It gave her mental issues for some time. But the role she was born to play was Oliver Oyl in Popeye.
It's a shame how she degenerated over the years. Reportedly she had real bad diabetes. She was something, though.
I liked her in everything I saw her in. The Shining was the most famous, although it was a disgrace for that pr**k Kubrick to make her do that stair scene with the baseball bat over and over for 127 takes! It gave her mental issues for some time. But the role she was born to play was Oliver Oyl in Popeye.
It's a shame how she degenerated over the years. Reportedly she had real bad diabetes. She was something, though.
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She was always great, but her performance in 3 Women was the crown jewel of her career.
She was the best
She was the best
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So sad to hear. I loved Faerie Tale Theatre. When I first saw her in The Shining when it was playing in theaters, I didn't like her performance at all because it was totally different than the book's character, but over the years I've come to really like it. I loved her as Olive Oyl in Popeye. After I already knew who she was, I was jazzed to see her in the earlier Brewster McCloud (1970), which she was great in. Liked her also in Nashville and Time Bandits. That's pretty much the sum of what I've seen her in. But she was certainly talented and I liked her. Godspeed, Shelly.
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