Actress Shelley Duvall of Shining passes away,At age 75
At the age of 75, American actress Shelley Duvall, who starred in movies like The Shining, Annie Hall, and Nashville, passed away.
The Hollywood Reporter was informed of the news by her partner, Dan Gilroy.
“My precious, amazing, and beloved friend and life companion passed away. She has suffered too much lately; she is finally free. Fly away, lovely Shelley,” he said, as reported by the publication.
At her Texas home, Gilroy claimed she passed away in her sleep from issues related to her diabetes.
Among Duvall’s other credits were the 1977 drama 3 Women, which was helmed by Robert Altman and for which the actress received a Cannes Film Festival best actress prize in addition to a Bafta nomination.
Three years later, she portrayed Olive Oyl in Altman’s musical adaptation of Popeye, starring opposite Robin Williams.
However, Duvall lost favor in Hollywood and didn’t appear on screen for 20 years before returning to The Forest Hills in 2023.Duvall had an eccentric charm and strikingly wide brown eyes that made her a memorable presence.
Her career and her relationship with Altman started with the 1970 dark comedy Brewster McCloud. In 1971, they got back together for McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
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Altman said to her, “I knew you were good, but I didn’t know you were great,” during the filming of her role as a lady who falls for a bank robber from the 1930s in their next film, Thieves Like Us.
That comment, according to her, was “the reason I stuck with it and became an actress.”.
She “was able to swing all sides of the pendulum: charming, silly, sophisticated, pathetic, even beautiful,” the director, who remained with her, once remarked.
She was cast once more by Altman in Nashville (1975), his parody of country music, politics, and US society.
In their subsequent project, 3 Women, Duvall portrayed a chatty, fashion-forward health spa attendant. Anne Billson of The Guardian called it “quite simply one of the greatest performances of the 1970s” and said it was her best part.
In the meantime, Duvall had a memorable appearance in Annie Hall in 1977 as Rolling Stone writer Pam, who went on a date with Woody Allen’s Alvy.
Her most well-known performance was perhaps as Wendy, the horrifying hotel caretaker’s wife of Jack Nicholson, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece The Shining.
Shooting was a nightmare. “I had to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight, five or six days a week,” she once said.
Following that, Duvall starred in movies alongside Steve Martin as Roxanne and Terry Gilliam as Time Bandits.
In addition, she founded her own production businesses and created the popular children’s television program Faerie Tale Theatre in the 1980s.
She became less visible in 2002 as her acting jobs declined in the 1990s, with Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady being the best of the bunch.
According to the New York Times, she may have vanished due to stress brought on by her brother’s disease and the 1994 earthquake that wrecked her Los Angeles house.
In May, she spoke with the newspaper about her extended break from the screen, claiming that the inconsistent film business was to blame for her situation. “I was well-known. I played prominent parts. It’s not merely ageing, unlike what many believe. Violence—that’s what she said.
“How would you feel if people were really nice and then, suddenly, on a dime, they turned against you?” she asked when asked to elaborate.
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“Until it happened to you, you wouldn’t believe it. You become hurt because you find it hard to accept that it’s true.
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According to the article, she also discussed communications she received after Robin Williams passed away, in which he described “shapeshifting” and evil entities that wanted to destroy her.
Gilroy told the New York Times that at that time, she had developed a “paranoid and just kind of delusional” mindset.
When the newspaper questioned her about why she had decided to go back to acting in The Forest Hills, she said, “I wanted to act again.” I ended up doing it since this man kept phoning.”
Author Nicole Flattery stated in a 2023 Financial Times article that her reappearance proved her charm was still intact.
“She’s a master at playing characters who act happy when they’re sad, their daffiness masking depth,” Flattery wrote in an essay dubbed the “ultimate film star.”
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