Shelley Duvall is dead. 'The Shining' and 'Popeye' actress was 75. She also starred in 'Nashville,' 'Annie Hall,' 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' and more.
, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” has died. She was 75.
At her peak, Duvall was a regular star in some of the defining movies of the 1970s. In “The Shining” , she played Wendy Torrance, who watches in horror as her husband, Jack , goes crazy while their family is isolated in the Overlook Hotel. It was Duvall’s screaming face that made up half of the film’s most iconic image, along with Jack’s axe coming through the door.
Duvall disappeared from movies almost as quickly as she arrived in them. By the 1990s, she began retiring from acting and retreated from public life. Duvall married the artist Bernard Sampson in 1970. They divorced four years later. Duvall was in a long-term relationship with the musician in the late ’70s after meeting during the making of Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall.” She also dated . During the making of the 1990 Disney Channel movie “Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Duvall met the musician Dan Gilroy, of the groupDuvall’s run in the 1970s was remarkably versatile. In the rugged Western “McCabe & Mrs.
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