A Patch of Blue
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A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed and written by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl, and the problems th
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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters was an American actress, whose film career spanned seven decades. In 1943 she changed her name to Shelley, after her favorite poet, and Winter taking her mother's maiden name. She won
A Patch of Blue
…America. Made in 1965 against the backdrop of the growing civil rights movement, the film explores racism while playing on the idea that "love is blind." Shelley Winters won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her second win for the award, following her victory in 1959 for The Diary of Anne Frank. It was the…
Winters in 1951
Studio publicity portrait of Winters c. 1940s
Title card of the movie Behave Yourself! (1951), featuring Winters
Winters with Julie Bovasso and Jason Robards, as the presenter of the first Obie Awards ceremony in 1956