All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

She waShelley Wintersd off her makeup and played against type to set up Elizabeth Taylor's beauty in A Place in the Sun still a landmark American film. She also returned to the stage on various occasions during this time including a Broadway run in A Hatful of Rain in 1955-1956 opposite future husband Anthony Franciosa. Kirkland a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness also performed non-denominational last rites for Winters.

Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 – January 14 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006.