Shelley Winters: 1922 - 2006

This handout picture from MGM shows Shelley Winters in character in the 1965 film "Patch of Blue" portraying a hateful, foul-mouthed mother who tries to keep her blind daughter, who is white, apart from the kind black man who has befriended her.

This handout picture from MGM shows Shelley Winters in character in the 1965 film “Patch of Blue” portraying a hateful, foul-mouthed mother who tries to keep her blind daughter, who is white, apart from the kind black man who has befriended her.  (MGM / AP)

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Shelley Winters

Actress Shelley Winters poses in this 1984 photograph at the Deauville Festival in France.  (Mantel / EPA)

Shelley Winters

Actress Shelley Winters poses at the Democratic Convention in New York. (undated)  (Mantel / EPA)