Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

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.