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US actress Shelley Duvall, known for films like The Shining, Annie Hall and Nashville, has died at the age of 75.Her partner Dan Gilroy confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter.
Fly away, beautiful Shelley," he said, according to the outlet.She died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Texas, Gilroy said.Duvall’s other credits included 1977 drama 3 Women, directed by Robert Altman, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award and was nominated for a Bafta.Three years later, she starred as Olive Oyl opposite Robin Williams in Altman’s musical version of Popeye.But Duvall fell out of favour in Hollywood and was off screens for two decades, before making her comeback in 2023’s The Forest Hills.
With her large brown eyes and offbeat charisma, Duvall was a distinctive and compelling presence.She began her career, and her association with Altman, in 1970 dark comedy Brewster McCloud, and the pair reunited for McCabe and Mrs Miller in 1971.
After filming her performance as a woman who falls for a 1930s bank robber in their next movie, Thieves Like Us, Altman told her: "I knew you were good, but I didn’t know you were great.
The Guardian’s Anne Billson ranked it as her best role, and “quite simply one of the greatest performances of the 1970s”.Meanwhile, also in 1977, Duvall memorably played Pam, a Rolling Stone reporter who went on a date with Woody Allen’s Alvy in Annie Hall.
“I had to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight, five or six days a week,” she once recalled.After that, Duvall’s film roles included Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits and Roxanne with Steve Martin.She also set up her own production companies, and made and hosted beloved 1980s children’s TV show Faerie Tale Theatre.Her acting roles diminished in the 1990s, with Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady the pick of the crop, and she dropped off the radar in 2002.The New York Times attributed her apparent disappearance to the impact of a 1994 earthquake that damaged her Los Angeles home, and the stress of her brother having cancer.Discussing her prolonged absence from the screen, she told the paper in May she had been the victim of a fickle film industry.
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The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 9 months ago
She was such a darling character.