Shelley Winters News

Filmmaker Roland Emmerich proves himself a master of visual effects planning, utilizing the skills of Hollywood's computer graphics experts to destroy cities and landmarks across the globe in modern day disaster movie "2012." On the other hand, smiles emerge when Emmerich asks actor John Cusack to imitate the Shelley-Winters-underwater-rescue scene ...

Lou Jacobi as Hans van Daan with Shelley Winters as his wife in the film The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959.

In this undated handout picture from 20th Century Fox, actors Shelley Winters, left, and Lou Jacobi are seen in the movie "The Diary of Anne Frank." Jacobi, a longtime character actor, has died at the age of 95.

Shelley Winters was a film actress, noted for her roles in "The Diary of Anne Frank," and "A Place in the Sun." She won two Oscars for "The Diarly of Anne Frank," and "A Patch of Blue." She is probably most known for her role in "The Poseidon Adventure," the 1972 action/disaster flick.

THOMASTON : The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a series of films in Room 208 of the Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The Friday night movies for October have the theme of Thrills and Chills.

If a disaster took place on celluloid in the early 1970s, it seemed that Maureen McGovern was there and ready to offer comfort with a song.

Odds Against Tomorrow has a great scene involving Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame.

SERIES: Lucille Ball's third CBS sitcom co-stars her teenage kids, Lucie and Desi Jr., with Gale Gordon as her employment-agency boss.

Pete is an orphan with a pet dragon that only he can see. He escapes from the evil family he had been living with .

Monday, July 27: Taylor Cinema The National Theatre pays tribute to screen siren Elizabeth Taylor with a retrospective of some of her most important films.

The Diary of Anne Frank captured the hearts of millions of readers because of its honesty and the author's positive attitude among the most dreadful of situations, hiding from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam for more than two years.

She's on the circuit for her transsexual role in Life is Hot in Cracktown . SLatIFR 'The Kings of Cinematic Schlong' ...and yes Ewan McGregor is accounted for Cinematical a certain heiress is being sued for not promoting a movie that paid her a cool million.

Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Pamela Sue Martin, Eric Shea, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Sadoff, Arthur O'Connell, Erik L. Nelson, Byron Webster, and Ernie F. Orsatti.

Half a century ago, Millie Perkins was a rising young New York model whose beauty had graced the covers of Vogue, Glamour and Seventeen.

Philip French's classic DVD: This first-rate, little-known film noir, a hard, harsh, fast-moving thriller, stars the great antihero John Garfield in his final role This first-rate, little-known film noir, a hard, harsh, fast-moving thriller, stars the great antihero John Garfield in his final role.

Like many classic film gems, at the time of the film's release, it was not a critical nor a box office success.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of April 26.