{"id":13379,"date":"2024-07-11T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:56:02","slug":"shelley-duvall-at-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/11\/shelley-duvall-at-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelley Duvall At Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/07\/11\/shelley-duvall-star-of-the-shining-nashville-dies-at-75\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shelley Duvall, star of \u2018The Shining,\u2019 \u2018Nashville,\u2019 dies at 75<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>She starred in several Robert Altman films, including \u201cThieves Like Us,\u201d \u201cNashville, \u201cPopeye,\u201d \u201cThree Women\u201d and \u201cMcCabe &amp; Ms. Miller\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Jake Coyle | Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13380\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cThe Shining,\u201d has died. She was 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duvall died Thursday in her sleep at her home in Blanco, Texas, her longtime partner, Dan Gilroy, announced. The cause was complications of diabetes, said her friend, the publicist Gary Springer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy dear, sweet, wonderful life, partner, and friend left us last night,\u201d Gilroy said in a statement. \u201cToo much suffering lately, now she\u2019s free. Fly away beautiful Shelley.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duvall was attending junior college in Texas when Altman\u2019s crew members, preparing to film \u201cBrewster McCloud,\u201d encountered her as at a party in Houston in 1970. They introduced her to the director, who cast her \u201cBrewster McCloud\u201d and made her his protege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duvall would go on to appear in Altman films including \u201cThieves Like Us,\u201d \u201cNashville, \u201cPopeye,\u201d \u201cThree Women\u201d and \u201cMcCabe &amp; Ms. Miller.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe offers me damn good roles,\u201d Duvall told The New York Times in 1977. \u201cNone of them have been alike. He has a great confidence in me, and a trust and respect for me, and he doesn\u2019t put any restrictions on me or intimidate me, and I love him. I remember the first advice he ever gave me: \u2018Don\u2019t take yourself seriously.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/07\/11\/shelley-duvall-star-of-the-shining-nashville-dies-at-75\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Mercury News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Mercury News Shelley Duvall, star of \u2018The Shining,\u2019 \u2018Nashville,\u2019 dies at 75 She starred in several Robert Altman films, including \u201cThieves Like Us,\u201d \u201cNashville, \u201cPopeye,\u201d \u201cThree Women\u201d and \u201cMcCabe &amp; Ms. Miller\u201d By Jake Coyle | Associated Press Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}