RIP Shelley Duvall

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Born in Texas, Duvall began acting after being discovered by director Robert Altman, who was impressed with her upbeat presence and cast her in the dark comedy film Brewster McCloud (1970). Despite her hesitance towards becoming an actress, she continued to work with Altman, appearing in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974). Her breakthrough came with Altman's cult film Nashville (1975), and she earned widespread acclaim with the drama 3 Women (1977), also directed by Altman, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and earned a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. That same year, she appeared in a supporting role (as a writer for Rolling Stone) in Woody Allen's satirical romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977) and hosted Saturday Night Live.

In the 1980s, Duvall became famous for her leading roles, which include Olive Oyl in Altman's live-action feature version of Popeye and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (both 1980). She appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film Time Bandits (1981), the short comedy horror film Frankenweenie (1984), and the comedy Roxanne (1987). She ventured into producing television programming aimed at children and youth in the latter half of the 1980s, notably creating and hosting the programs Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1987), Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1987) (which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1988), and Nightmare Classics (1989).

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I stayed at the Grand Pt Clear over the weekend and kept thinking about old haunted hotels and the Shining.

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Born in Texas, Duvall began acting after being discovered by director Robert Altman, who was impressed with her upbeat presence and cast her in the dark comedy film Brewster McCloud (1970). Despite her hesitance towards becoming an actress, she continued to work with Altman, appearing in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974). Her breakthrough came with Altman's cult film Nashville (1975), and she earned widespread acclaim with the drama 3 Women (1977), also directed by Altman, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and earned a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. That same year, she appeared in a supporting role (as a writer for Rolling Stone) in Woody Allen's satirical romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977) and hosted Saturday Night Live.

In the 1980s, Duvall became famous for her leading roles, which include Olive Oyl in Altman's live-action feature version of Popeye and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (both 1980). She appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film Time Bandits (1981), the short comedy horror film Frankenweenie (1984), and the comedy Roxanne (1987). She ventured into producing television programming aimed at children and youth in the latter half of the 1980s, notably creating and hosting the programs Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1987), Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1987) (which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1988), and Nightmare Classics (1989).

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Had to be one of the ugliest women to ever be considered a Hollywood leading lady. She must have been a hawk tuah girl.

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She was a great actress. I mean, Williem DaFoe, William H Macy, or Marty Feldman weren’t much to look at either, but I don’t see people saying they shouldn’t be actors.

She's the female version of Steve Buscemi

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Had to be one of the ugliest women to ever be considered a Hollywood leading lady.

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Was she ever really considered anything but sort of a quirky character actress?

There are certain roles that simply don't work well with full-on babes. Her character in the Shining and Olive Oyl are probably two of those.

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working with Kubrick on the Shining messed with her mind and she never got over it. She got a reputation of being difficult to work with ànd it killed her career. She moved back to Texas añd became a hermit,

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Kubrick is my personal favorite director of all time, but yeah he was exceptionally abusive towards her on the set.

Like people said it had to do with her having a cocaine problem, ummm, yeah her costar was Jack Nicholson who is one of the biggest coke fiends in Hollywood history, so you know he was doing coke on the set, but coke probably made Jack’s performance better, so Kubrick didn’t give a shite. Even Jack has admitted that Kubrick was cruel to her, which kind of takes a lot from him to say that.

The fact she stood toe-to-toe as an actress opposite a coked up Jack Nicholson at his prime is a credit to her abilities.

The experience might have derailed her career, but it at least displayed her talent.

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working with Kubrick on the Shining messed with her mind and she never got over it.

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From IMDB Shelley Duvall Trivia from IMDB

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At Stanley Kubrick's insistence, she and Jack Nicholson performed 127 takes of the baseball bat scene in The Shining (1980), which broke a world-record for the most retakes of a single movie scene with spoken dialogue. Duvall said she learned more from working with Kubrick on that film than she did on all her previous films.

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I think 127 times would make most people go a bit insane.