{"id":82071,"date":"2024-07-12T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/?p=82071"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T04:19:44","slug":"shining-star-inside-life-of-shining-actress-shelley-duval-after-death-at-75-and-why-film-that-made-her-left-her-crying-12hrs-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/shining-star-inside-life-of-shining-actress-shelley-duval-after-death-at-75-and-why-film-that-made-her-left-her-crying-12hrs-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"SHINING STAR Inside life of Shining actress Shelley Duval after death at 75 and why film that made her left her \u2018crying 12hrs a day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>SHE will for ever be remembered as the baseball bat-wielding Wendy Torrance, defending herself from a crazed, axe-swinging Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s The Shining.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>It was something Shelley Duvall never forgot either, as the terrifying scene was filmed 127 times by the perfectionist director \u2014 causing her to cry for \u201c12 hours a day for weeks on end\u201d.\n<figure id='\"attachment_82074\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82074\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82074 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/NINTCHDBPICT000916331562.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Shelley' duval defending herself from a crazed axe-swinging jack nicholson in stanley kubrick the shiningcredit: rex width='\"620\"' height='\"417\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/NINTCHDBPICT000916331562.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82074\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley Duval defending herself from a crazed, axe-swinging Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s The ShiningCredit: Rex\n<figure id='\"attachment_82075\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82075\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82075 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/shelley-duvall-interview-dr-phill-635866905_064499.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Shelley' made an appearance on dr phil in width='\"615\"' height='\"410\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/shelley-duvall-interview-dr-phill-635866905_064499.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82075\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley made an appearance on Dr Phil in 2016Credit: Dr Phil\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>The actress died yesterday aged 75 at her home in Blanco, Texas, from complications with her diabetes.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The star, who never lost her innocent, childlike looks, was discovered by director Robert Altman when she screen-tested for a teenage seductress and tour guide in 1970\u2019s Brewster McCloud.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>More than ten years later, he cast her again, as Olive Oyl in Popeye, opposite Robin Williams.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The director\/actress partnership continued with 1971\u2019s McCabe &amp; Mrs Miller, where she played a mail-order bride, 1975\u2019s Nashville, as a groupie, and 1977\u2019s 3 Women, where she starred as a health spa attendant for the elderly.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Altman once noted that Shelley was \u201cable to swing all sides of the pendulum: Charming, silly, sophisticated, pathetic, even beautiful\u201d.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Asked why she found the director so enticing to work with, she said in 1977: \u201cHe has great confidence in me and a trust and respect for me.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>\u2018Crazy and angry all the time\u2019\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t put any restrictions on me or intimidate me. I love him.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The same could not be said for her relationship with Kubrick, who she found near impossible to work with on a 13-month shoot for his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s The Shining.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Frequently arguing on set about the constant script changes, she claimed to have been so overwhelmed that she became physically ill for months.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>At one point she was under so much stress that her hair began to fall out.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>In a 1981 interview, she said: \u201cI will never give that much again.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cIf you want to get into pain and call it art, go ahead. But not with me.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>And she told US film critic Roger Ebert: \u201cGoing through day after day of excruciating work was almost unbearable.\n<blockquote><p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>I had to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight.\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cJack Nicholson\u2019s character had to be crazy and angry all the time.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cAnd in my character, I had to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight, five or six days a week.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cI was there a year and a month.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cAfter all that work, hardly anyone even criticised my performance in it, even to mention it, it seemed like.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cThe reviews were all about Kubrick, like I wasn\u2019t there.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>But it was her raw talent and intriguing looks that got her noticed by so many directors.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Roger Ebert wrote that Duvall \u201clooks and sounds like almost nobody else.\n<figure id='\"attachment_82076\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82076\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82076 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/studio-publicity-still-popeye-shelley-916327512.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Shelley' starring as olive oyl in film popeyecredit: avalon.red width='\"620\"' height='\"911\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/studio-publicity-still-popeye-shelley-916327512.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82076\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley starring as Olive Oyl in 1980 film PopeyeCredit: Avalon.red\n<figure id='\"attachment_82077\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82077\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82077 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/NINTCHDBPICT000916331578.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Beguiling' shelley in the film womencredit: rex width='\"620\"' height='\"950\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/NINTCHDBPICT000916331578.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82077\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Beguiling Shelley in the 1977 film 3 WomenCredit: Rex\n<figure id='\"attachment_82078\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82078\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82078 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/NINTCHDBPICT000916330888.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Shelley' in nashville alamy width='\"620\"' height='\"817\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/NINTCHDBPICT000916330888.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82078\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley in Nashville in 1975Credit: Alamy\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cIn all of her roles, there is an openness about her, as if somehow nothing has come between her open face and our eyes \u2014 no camera, dialogue, make-up, method of acting \u2014 and she is just spontaneously being the character\u201d.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She took a break from big screen performances for nearly two decades after her traumatic turn as Wendy Torrance, but hit the headlines when she made an appearance on self-help talk show Dr Phil in 2016.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Looking dishevelled, the actress revealed she was suffering with a mental illness, saying: \u201cI am very sick. I need help.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>During the distressing appearance, Shelley also said she believed her Popeye co-star Robin Williams was not dead and instead was a \u201cshape-shifter\u201d.\n<blockquote><p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley, who had never been outside Texas before, became an unlikely actress.\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>Born in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 7, 1949, Shelley was the oldest of four children.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She had three younger brothers, Scott, Stewart and Shane.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Her parents, Bob, a cattle auctioneer turned attorney, and her mother, Bobbie, an estate agent, took the family to Houston, Texas, when she was five.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>At college she was bookish and studied nutrition and science.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Shelley met members of Altman\u2019s staff when she threw a party for her fianc\u00e9, artist Bernard Sampson \u2014 who she went on to marry in 1970 \u2014 and her life changed for ever.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Altman offered her a role and Shelley, who had never been outside Texas before, became an unlikely actress.\n<figure id='\"attachment_82079\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82079\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82079 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/shelley-duvall-danny-lloyd-jack-916331550.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Shelley' said she cried for hours a day filming the shining with jack nicholsoncredit: rex width='\"620\"' height='\"403\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/shelley-duvall-danny-lloyd-jack-916331550.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82079\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley said she cried for 12 hours a day filming The Shining with Jack NicholsonCredit: Rex\n<figure id='\"attachment_82080\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-82080\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-82080 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/c97198d8-d33f-4f31-b68a-f5614226f9fb.webp%5C%22" alt='\"Shelley' dated beatles drummer ringo starr in the late rex width='\"620\"' height='\"850\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/c97198d8-d33f-4f31-b68a-f5614226f9fb.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-82080\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Shelley dated Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in the late 1970sCredit: Rex\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>Soon after arriving in Los Angeles, she and Bernard divorced in 1974.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Shelley then dated musician Paul Simon, who she met when they both starred in 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>But he dumped her just before she was about to board a flight to London to work on The Shining.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>And he revealed that he was leaving her for her friend, the Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>A heartbroken Duvall \u2014 who, in the late 1970s, also briefly dated Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, with whom she shared a birthday \u2014 admitted to crying during the entire flight.\n<blockquote><p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Often passed entire days in her car\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>She met her long-term partner, Dan Gilroy, in 1989, when they co-starred in Disney Channel movie Mother Goose Rock \u2018N\u2019 Rhyme.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>In a Hollywood Reporter piece three years ago, a reclusive Shelley was described as enjoying the tranquil banks of the river in Texas Hill Country.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The article continued that she \u201coften passes entire days in her car, chatting with locals and snacking on takeout food\u201d.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Yesterday, Dan, her love of the last 35 years, said: \u201cMy dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cToo much suffering lately, now she\u2019s free.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cFly away, beautiful Shelley.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHE will for ever be remembered as the baseball bat-wielding Wendy Torrance, defending herself from a crazed, axe-swinging Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s The Shining. 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