Why is shelley duvall famous

However, by the s, Duvall had all but retired, and fans were left wondering what happened to the quirky star. In the interview, Duvall seemed to display many hallmarks of mental illness, including claiming that she believes that she is a shape shifter. Duvall told Dr. Phil claimed that he was working with her family and friends to try to get Duvall the help that she needed, including setting up appointments for her at a mental health institution.

Wearing an embroidered Mexican blouse and patched blue jeans with bells tied to her waist, a stack of paintings tucked under her arm, Duvall was dropped off by her mom at a building in downtown Houston.

And I got the part. Duvall played a preening country music groupie, Tomlin a gospel singer raising two deaf kids. The way she played that — so sweet and funny and heartbreaking. It just killed me. I wish I had now. She enjoyed her first taste of the limelight around then.

Charles Champlin — he was the head of the Sunday entertainment section — wrote an incredible story. Their marriage did not last the year. They were just waiting for the basketball game to start. Duvall recalls those early L. Each person would bring a dish of food. Some became famous. Like, there was this carpenter guy who got a big job building a waterfall for the home of a studio executive. Every time the executive would have a party, everybody saw the waterfall.

Harrison Ford. It was on that film that she met and began dating Paul Simon he played a record producer in the movie. They then spent a few months apart while she worked on 3 Women for Altman, a dreamlike, avant-garde film — Altman said it had come to him fully formed in his sleep, cast included — that for Duvall would be a major breakthrough.

The two women then embark on a bizarre, co-dependent relationship. She was always prepared, always in good humor, and took her work really seriously. She blew it out of the water. There is a raw, unnerving horror to it — and it convinced Kubrick to cast Duvall as the wife in his adaptation of a Stephen King novel set in a haunted hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Duvall was living with Simon in Manhattan at the time. She cried for the entire journey across the Atlantic — what, it turns out, would be just a warm-up for the emotional marathon that lay ahead.

When she arrived in London, Kubrick met his star with his daughter Vivian in tow. Where 3 Women took six weeks to shoot from start to finish, The Shining took That was partly because of a fire at EMI Elstree Studios in February that badly damaged the Overlook Hotel set — at the time the largest ever constructed there — requiring it to be rebuilt.

The schedule was grueling, with the director filming six days a week, up to 16 hours a day. I would start giggling. After a while Stanley became impatient with me, and just let loose. And that terrified me! But you have to understand, some scenes take hours to make, sometimes, a whole 12 hour shooting day would only translate to being three minutes on screen. So you go into a scene acting terrified or crying, and by the end of the day you just don't have anything more to give, [but] there is the genius of Stanley Kubrick.

He gets it out of you. But it was very tough and grueling. Duvall also brought her talents to the small screen. In the s, Duvall took on a number of guest roles in programs such as Frasier and Aliens for Breakfast.

In addition to her on-screen work, Duvall has also become a respected children's show producer. When the s hit, Duvall's career was just beginning. During the making of this film, Kubrick psychologically tormented Duvall, causing her immense stress and affecting her mental state.

He would often ignore her entirely during filming or would put in her situations which caused her immense fear and distress. The most obvious example is when Kubrick shot the famous "baseball bat scene" with Duvall and Nicholson times, which is the world record for most number of takes in any film set.

In January of , Robert Altman would offer Duvall yet another role in one of his films. Only the role was a certain role that Altman believed she was born to play. That certain role was "Olive Oyl" in the real life version of Popeye. Shelley was skeptical at first on accepting the role, due to bad memories as a child of negatively being called "Olive Oyl" in grade school. She fortunately decided to take the role and performed admirably.

Shelley also sings several songs in this film. As the s rolled on, Shelley's career never slowed down. She appeared as a supporting actress in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits in ; she played "Susan Frankenstein" in Tim Burton's Frankenweenie , and co-starred in the hit comedy film Roxanne in starring Steve Martin.

From to , Shelley continued her filming career but from a different aspect. Since Shelley was 17, she had a collection of a variety of illustrated classic fairy tale books. During the making of Popeye, she showed her collection to Robin Williams. One particular fairy tale she showed Robin was "The Frog Prince". Shelley went to Showtime with the idea for airing a television program that was based on fairy tales.

She produced Fairy Tale Theater which Showtime aired that was a hit television series that was based on several classic fairy tales. Fairy Tale Theatre was on television from Each episode was a one-hour series and there were a total of twenty six episodes, all hosted by Shelley Duvall.

Shelley also starred in four out of the twenty six episodes. In , Ms. Duvall created Tall Tales and Legends that was aired for three years until it ended in Although it only consisted of nine episodes, Shelley was nominated for an Emmy from the series. In the late s and early s, Shelley discovered Think Entertainment; another production company which helped Shelley create more programs and movies that were made for television that aired on common cable channels.

Shelley produced three more programs from these production companies that aired on Showtime: Nightmare Classics, Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories, and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. Her Bedtime Stories program earned her a 2nd Emmy Nomination. Shelley sold Think Entertainment in and retired as a producer. Shelley Duvall's later career found her a number of different roles.

She appeared in the family comedy Home Fries in playing "Mrs. Jackson", Drew Barrymore's character's mother.

She also had cameos in several TV series' such as: Frasier, L. Shelley returned to the horror genre when she played "Martha Stewart" in The 4th Floor in and played the role of "Mrs. Stein" in Big Monster On Campus in ; which consisted of both the comedy and horror genre.

Since , Shelley Duvall has not acted in any films, but lives a quiet and peaceful life in Blanco, Texas.