Post #210335 by tikimug on Wed, Jan 25, 2006 5:22 PM

Anyone else catch this??

First:

Shelley Winters starred in 120 films

Shelley Winters, a brassy actress and raconteur who appeared in more than 120 films and twice won the Academy Award for supporting performances, died Saturday at a rehabilitation center in Beverly Hills, Calif. She had been hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack. She was 85.

Winters won her Oscars for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), as the sloppy and nervous Mrs. Van Daan, and for A Patch of Blue (1965), in which she was one of the true screen vultures, mercilessly abusing her blind daughter (played by Elizabeth Hartman).

Her last Oscar nomination was for The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the much-lampooned all-star drama about an overturned luxury liner. She played a former swimming champion who, despite her girth, tries to take others to safety.

Then a few days later...

Actor Anthony Franciosa, Shelley Winters' ex-husband, dies

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Brooding American method actor Anthony Franciosa, who was once married to Oscar-winning screen star
Shelley Winters, has died, just five days after his famous ex-wife, his publicist said.

Franciosa, who was 77, died Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles, where the double Academy Award winner Winters -- his wife from 1957 to 1960 -- passed away at the age of 85 last Saturday.

News reports said Franciosa, who starred in a string of television and big screen movies in a career spanning four decades, died of a massive stroke, but his publicist declined to confirm the cause of death.

"I can say only that you that Mr. Franciosa died yesterday (Thursday) just before 1:00pm (2100 GMT) at the UCLA Medical Center," publicist Dick Guttman told AFP.

"His funeral service is going to be held in a private ceremony, but it has not been determined yet," he added.

...Freaky, huh?