Shelley Duvall: The Shining actress dies aged 75

[Josiah.]

Shelley Duvall, best known for her role in The Shining, has died at the age of 75.

Duvall died in her sleep from complications of diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, her partner told The Hollywood Reporter.

"My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she's free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley," Dan Gilroy said.

Duvall played Wendy Torrance in the iconic 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring alongside Jack Nicholson.

This is sad, despite everything she had been through outside of her career (no thanks in recent years to Dr. Phil).

https://news.sky.com/story/shelley-duvall-the-shining-actress-dies-aged-75-13176677

[Niamh.]

Aww RIP to her

[Ray.]

A great shame. Admittedly, I haven't watched all that much of her work beyond The Shining, but that movie is one of my absolute favourites and I can't imagine anyone else in that role. She's such an integral part of what makes it so great and gives one of the all time great horror movie performances imo. R.I.P. It's a shame her later years especially were so strenuous on her mental health.

[AnnieK]

Aw, RIP.

She was great in The Shining - although it very nearly broke her filming it.

[Niamh.]

A great shame. Admittedly, I haven't watched all that much of her work beyond The Shining, but that movie is one of my absolute favourites and I can't imagine anyone else in that role. She's such an integral part of what makes it so great and gives one of the all time great horror movie performances imo. R.I.P. It's a shame her later years especially were so strenuous on her mental health.

Seems like a lot of that was to do with filming The Shining and how awful the Director treated her on that

[Ray.]

Probably so, yes.

[Swan]

Seems like a lot of that was to do with filming The Shining and how awful the Director treated her on that

Yeah i've read about that, puts me off watching the film back nowadays. I know Stephen King hated the director too and wasn't a fan of the film.

[Oliver_W]

The Shining is one of my all time favourite films. Not seen her in anything else.

RIP

[Niamh.]

Yeah i've read about that, puts me off watching the film back nowadays. I know Stephen King hated the director too and wasn't a fan of the film.

I haven't read the book but I know his issue was how Kubrick interrupted the story, the book being more supernatural/horror and the film being more mind-of-a-psychopath. I think I might download the book actually just to see the difference. Have you watched the sequel to it- Doctor Sleep? I think that must have taken a more Stephen Kind approach, I really liked it actually

[Oliver_W]

There was a miniseries made of the book, either directed by or scripted by Stephen King. It's... not as good as Kubrick's :joker:

[Ammi]

….awwwwww, I didn’t know that she had ill health, that’s very sad news…as others have said, I’m not sure that I could ever watch The Shining again, knowing what Shelley Duvall went through with Stanley Kubrick…she was also a great Olive Oyl to Robin Williams’ Popeye…I’m not sure how well that movie did at the box office but I thought that it was quite…and a great pairing of the lead actors…

…Shelley Duvall…:love:…

[Niamh.]

There was a miniseries made of the book, either directed by or scripted by Stephen King. It's... not as good as Kubrick's :joker:

I might look it up anyway, I didn't know it existed

[GoldHeart]

Seems like a lot of that was to do with filming The Shining and how awful the Director treated her on that

Yeah Stanley Kubrick was a complete sadistic nutter ! , he made Shelley Duvall lose her mind on set ,pushed her to extreme exhaustion and broke her physically & mentally . It's no wonder she suffered from depression.

Kubrick also kept bullying other actors on set,they had to rehearse the same scene 100 times....to the point where they were in tears , Scatman Crothers kept pleading Kubrick to stop making him do the same scene over and over again.

I mean we all know directors will make actors do the same Scene alot for perfection etc ,but Kubrick seemed to get pleasure out of torturing his actors , especially when they were tired and pushed to their limit.

Very sad news indeed about Shelley's death R.IP. ,I only ever knew her from ' The Shining '......which unfortunately has a bad taste to it now .....due to the zero compassion and awful treatment behind the scenes.

[Ray.]

There was a miniseries made of the book, either directed by or scripted by Stephen King. It's... not as good as Kubrick's :joker:

No, nowhere near lol. Good as he is as a storyteller, I've always thought King's taste in horror cinema was questionable at the very least.

Btw, in response to Niamh, it's worth pointing out that The Shining isn't psychological horror per se, given that the ghosts in the movie are shown to be real at the climax of the film. It's more of a bait-and-switch where Kubrick tries to suggest to the viewer that it's all probably in Jack's head, before pulling the rug out from under the audience and having Grady's ghost let Jack out of the pantry.

But it's true to say that Kubrick's movie is markedly different from the book in terms of the characterisations of the main players, the motivation of the ghosts, certain plot progressions, etc. It's commonly accepted that Kubrick just wanted to use the basic framework of the novel to tell his own story and insert his own themes.

Also, not that it makes it okay, but I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that Duvall said she wouldn't have changed her experience making The Shining for the world. That's just how dedicated some actors are to their craft. :shrug:

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Ray.]

I think she was kind of unconventionally beautiful in her prime.

[arista]

She worked, hard
in those early years.


Great Actress
She will be missed

[Vanessa]

She was great on The Shining. Love that movie. Kubrick wasn't exactly faithful to the book, but I think it's a fantastic movie anyway.

[LaLaLand]

She’s in a few of my favourite moves - The Shining, Annie Hall, Nashville and Popeye (loved it since I was a kid). She had such a unique look and played such quirky characters. She was so, so perfect as Olive Oyl.

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RIP Shelley. :love:

[Mystic Mock]

This is sad, despite everything she had been through outside of her career (no thanks in recent years to Dr. Phil).

https://news.sky.com/story/shelley-duvall-the-shining-actress-dies-aged-75-13176677

What did Dr. Phil do?

RIP

[Mystic Mock]

Seems like a lot of that was to do with filming The Shining and how awful the Director treated her on that

I read that he wanted it to feel "real."

Which imo is a ****ed up way to go about it.

[Mystic Mock]

I think she was kind of unconventionally beautiful in her prime.

There's nothing wrong with that tbf.

[Ammi]

She’s in a few of my favourite moves - The Shining, Annie Hall, Nashville and Popeye (loved it since I was a kid). She had such a unique look and played such quirky characters. She was so, so perfect as Olive Oyl.

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RIP Shelley. :love:

…Shelley really was the perfect Olive Oyl…:love:…both she and Robin Williams had such a vulnerability in their character roles…

[Gusto Brunt]

I saw an interview she did on YouTube about a week ago, and she didn't look too well.

Very sad loss. :( RIP.