A Kind Word

Shelly Winters, who passed away today, was the real deal. She won Oscars for roles in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965). She was nominated twice more, once for A Place in the Sun (1951), and once for The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Not many people get nominated in three decades.

I saw her on TV the other night in The Big Knife. It's another one of those movies one cannot recommend, but which one would not for a minute discourage an intelligent person from seeing. I have no sympathy for Odets or his agenda, but Winters, along with Rod Steiger and Jack Palance, really made it interesting.