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Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

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Shelley Winters
Age: 85 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 18
Died: 2006
Died: January 14
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East St. Louis
Illinois
Shirley Schrift
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