A Ray with Women

with Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955, MGM)

with Mamie Van Doren in The Beat Generation (1959, MGM)

with Diane McBain in Ice Palace (1960, Warner Bros.)

with Jayne Mansfield in The George Raft Story (1961, Allied Artists)

with Julie London in The George Raft Story (1961, Allied Artists)

with Shelley Winters in The Chapman Report (1962, Warner Bros.)

Checks of a Different Stripe

ROCK HUDSON

MICHAEL RENNIE

SHELLEY WINTERS

Time Warp

Picture it, New York, 1978: Merv Griffin and his guests -- Ethel Merman, Shelley Winters and Alexis Smith -- discuss Broadway, Chita Rivera, "A Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts," disco, Studio 54, Bob Mackie, and the opening of Smith's cult flop musical, Platinum, in what may be the gayest 13 minutes you'll ever spend in your life.

The Lady in Question

Why ask why?

Still Dead

Stop callin', stop callin', you're not gonna reach their telephone.

The Winter of Our Discontent

It recently occured to us that we've been neglectful in commenting on our friends' blogs. It isn't because we don't care, darlings - because we do! The holidays are a mad rush for us (at our throats, as Noel Coward would say); since we usually only have time to absorb all of your marvelous blogs in one breathless sitting, we often feel insufficiently witty to leave comments. But trust us: we do check in, and giggle, and goggle, and occasionally gleefully glom your photos (e.g., Infomaniac, from whence this sensitive study of Miss Shelley Winters was stolen). So if at words poetic we're so pathetic these days, please be patient and understanding, possums. We love you!

Feliz Cumpleaños

RICARDO MONTALBAN

November 25, 1920 - January 14, 2009

We miss him, and his chest.

THANKS

Take a Wild Guess

Ms. Winters has just:

A) Realized that she'll never be a size 6 again.

B) Seen Charles Nelson Reilly in the nude backstage at a Match Game taping.

C) Been informed that she's dead.

MISS SHELLEY WINTERS
August 18, 1920 - January 14, 2006

Pardon Me, Boy...

...is that the Chattanooga Chu Chu?

My Man and I (1952, MGM)
dir.: William Wellman
Ricardo Montalban as Chu Chu Ramirez

Shelley Winters as Nancy
Claire Trevor as Mrs. Ansel Ames

Talkin 'Bout Bad, Bad Girls

Toot toot. Beep beep.

You Can't Get a Man With a Gun

These tough old gals obviously never read The Rules.