The fabulously glamorous Shelley Winters would have been 89 today — she died in 2006 at age 85.
Just a few hours before her death, actress Sally Kirkland (1987 Oscar nominee for “Anna”) officiated in a ceremony in which Winters wed longtime companion Gerry DeFord — Shelley had lived with him for nearly 20 years. Kirkland is a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, and administered last rites to the dying star.
I once saw Shelley at the Silver Spoon in West Hollywood, where she sometimes had breakfast.
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Here’s a corny YouTube tribute that I like.
in birthdays, ends, gone, last hurrahs, legends, little known facts, memorials 
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Met her briefly years ago at a film festival. So sweet, so polite.