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Shelley Duvall has died
- bitwize 2y agoI remember her primarily as Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie and the series Faerie Tale Theatre. She was amazing as an actress with a very unique look. Seeing her as a metal and physical wreck in more recent years was heartbreaking. I will miss her, but am glad she is no longer suffering.
- knodi123 2y ago> Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie I recently (randomly!) listened to the "What Went Wrong" podcast episode about Popeye. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id1512847066?i=1000498061719 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id15128470... It was _hilarious_ . But the one thing that went perfectly was the casting of Shelley Duvall. The podcasters said "If you gave god a bunch of popeye cartoons and told him to make a real human version of Olive Oyl, you'd get Shelley Duvall." And Shelley herself said that she grew up being called Olive Oyl, and hated it because of all that it implied- but now that it got her cast in a big budget movie, she said the comparison doesn't hurt anymore!
- boppo1 2y agoWhat did it imply? Unfamiliar.
- knodi123 2y agoSkinny, tall, tiny breasts, washboard ass, annoying voice. Just generally not the physical characteristics of a woman who wants to be seen as sexy.
- JohnFen 2y agoAnd yet, TMI here, I always found Shelley Duvall to be sexy. There's a lid for every pot.
- bitwize 2y agoShe was unconventionally beautiful, but she really had a certain something. The modern girl I want to compare her to is Aubrey Plaza for some reason. Again, that makes her casting as Olive perfect. It helps the audience see in Olive what Popeye and Bluto see in her.
- ianbicking 2y agoI really liked the Popeye movie; I rewatched it recently and still like it. It gets a lot of things wrong, but it gets other things really right. Among them Shelley Duvall.
- deciduously 2y agoFor me Time Bandits comes to mind first, her little sketches with Michael Palin never get old.
- dhosek 2y agoPopeye was the first thing I saw her in, and after that, I could never unsee her as Olive Oyl. Personally, I think that movie is absolutely wonderful (especially the “Everything Is Food” number, but all the songs are great). For whatever reason, the Fairy Tale Theatre episodes are hard to come by. They’re not on any streaming service although there have been DVD releases. The first episode featured Robin Williams as the frog prince with Eric Idle directing. It was only in the last couple years that I learned that not only is she not Robert Duvall’s daughter,¹ they aren’t related. ⸻ 1. Actually, it turns out she is Robert Duvall’s daughter, just not that Robert Duvall.
- christkv 2y agoShh don't tell anyone https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog+Prince.avi https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog...
- roydivision 2y agoShe was SO Olive Oyl that it's like somehow the cartoons were retro-fitted to her look.
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Duvall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Duvall
- anigbrowl 2y agoA recent profile of her from 2 months ago, which mentions a film she worked on earlier this year: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/style/shelley-duvall.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U0.Iro3.V_8TIEPW9fEs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/style/shelley-duvall.html...
- eludwig 2y agoJust wanted to pop in to say I think she is a terribly underrated actor. Truly a gem. For my money, the only reason that The Shining has any stakes at all is because of her incredible performance! RIP, Shelley.
- technothrasher 2y agoThe Shining has so many reasons why it "has stakes". While Duvall was definitely an amazing part of that, it seems unfair to deprecate the rest of the creative folks involved in the film.
- temporarely 2y agoEven the opening long shot "has stakes". That's an amazing film packed with talent in all departments.
- shiroiushi 2y agoJust don't ask Stephen King for his opinion on it.
- LtWorf 2y agoI tried to read the book and it sucked. They did him a favour really.
- shiroiushi 2y agoI never read the book, but I saw the TV mini-series remake that King was personally involved with and approved, and it was awful. Personally, I think King's stories just don't translate very well to movies, unless (as with Kubrick's "The Shining") huge liberties are taken with the source material. Most adaptations I've seen of his stories were just bad.
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- aaroninsf 2y agoFor the lucky 10,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QgNuZcxTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QgNuZcxTw
- drivers99 2y agoI was expecting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVoJgQ7u8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVoJgQ7u8w For context, she hosted a show called "Faerie Tale Theatre".
- lenwood 2y agoThanks, I'm one of the lucky 10k today. This is great and I'd never seen it before.
- eco 2y agoFun little fact, seeing this video is the reason Michael Stevens (of VSauce fame) was inspired to start making his own videos.
- mistyvales 2y agoShe was also great in 3 Women (and other Altman movies).
- IndySun 2y agowhat do you like about '3 Women'?
- garbanz0 2y agohttps://youtu.be/PTxMtTYjXPQ https://youtu.be/PTxMtTYjXPQ
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- senderista 2y agoI have fond memories of watching her in Fairy Tale Theater as a kid, highly recommend that series.
- mrichman 2y agoLoved it so much, I spent a month getting it off bittorrent.
- duderific 2y agoI wonder if she would even be able to get her foot in the door in Hollywood nowadays. She has a very "unconventional" look that doesn't necessarily align with the modern standards of beauty that generally are table stakes in today's film industry. Of course there are exceptions, but you just don't see many leading women that aren't more like Scarlett Johansson or Nicole Kidman.
- dmix 2y agoAlways a place for Steve Buscemi type characters in Hollywood if you have charm
- 486sx33 2y agoHer look would NOT get her into Hollywood today. Or the 00’s or the 90’s or the 80’s Hollywood idealism is whack
- xeromal 2y agoAnna Taylor Joy
- pbj1968 2y agoAre you kidding? Most of them are tiny and weird looking in person. Have you seen what Nicole Kidman looked like in her 80s Australian movies? I enjoy her performances but now she is one of the strangest looking people I’ve ever seen.
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- lc9er 2y agoHe and Dr Oz are both cruel hucksters launched into the public eye and given credibility thanks to their association with Oprah.
- 4rt 2y agoRedLetterMedia did a re:view of Popeye quite recently. https://youtu.be/pygCruE-EJs https://youtu.be/pygCruE-EJs
- mattjaynes 2y agoOne of my favorite films. Can't think of anyone who could have played Olive more perfectly. Underrated classic.
- mmmBacon 2y agoMine too! Saw it about 100 times via the magic of HBO in the 1980’s. I loved to sing I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today to my kids when they were young. They are teens now. Still break it out once in a while to their great embarrassment!
- JKCalhoun 2y agoZaSu Pitts comes to mind, but otherwise, yeah.
- JohnFen 2y agoI strongly dislike that movie, but Duvall's performance was excellent in it.
- BizarroLand 2y agoI have memories of strongly disliking that movie as well, but I haven't seen it since I was a little kid.
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- at_a_remove 2y agoPeople talk of her acting, which was fine and good, but I think her largest achievement was Fairytale Theater, Nightmare Classics (only four, but a quite good adaptation of "Carmilla" was in the lot), and so forth. She executive produced four of these series, putting together quite a lot of talent in one place. The IMDB credits for some of these episodes are amazing.
- tocs3 2y agoRest In Peace. I met and talked to her a few times in town over the past 10 years or so. She could serve as an example person that needed help (I tried to help on occasion in tiny "help the old lady across the street" ways). Lets remember to try and be compassionate to those around us.
- cal85 2y ago> She could serve as an example person that needed help Why?
- knodi123 2y agohttps://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/11/17/shining-actress-shelley-duvall-tells-dr-phil-shes-mentally-ill/94031976/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/11/17/shining-ac... > "I’m very sick, I need help," she says in an interview airing Friday. Basically, she struggled with mental health later in her life, much more so than most people.
- Zambyte 2y agoThat quote can also be found in the OP
- williamsfan 2y agoRobin Williams on the topic: https://youtu.be/jZFR1ik3WLs?si=rXjWW5mlPvsQvYZH&t=40 https://youtu.be/jZFR1ik3WLs?si=rXjWW5mlPvsQvYZH&t=40
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- replwoacause 2y agoRobin Williams impersonator.
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