Lee Anne
01-14-2006, 05:34 PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Shelley Winters, the two-time Oscar winner whose roles ranged from glamour girls to tramps, died at a Southern California nursing home early on Saturday, a spokeswoman said. She was 85.
Winters died at the Rehabilitation Center of Beverly Hills about 6:15 a.m., a spokeswoman there told Reuters. She declined to disclose the cause of death.
Winters was hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack. A blond bombshell who was tough, street-wise and outspoken, the Brooklyn, New York-raised Winters specialized in unsympathetic, abrasive mother roles that won her two Academy Awards for best supporting actress
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Winters died at the Rehabilitation Center of Beverly Hills about 6:15 a.m., a spokeswoman there told Reuters. She declined to disclose the cause of death.
Winters was hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack. A blond bombshell who was tough, street-wise and outspoken, the Brooklyn, New York-raised Winters specialized in unsympathetic, abrasive mother roles that won her two Academy Awards for best supporting actress
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