Shirley Stoler
Actor
Pee-wee Herman...screen with the Saturday morning children's program, Pee-wee's Playhouse, on the American CBS network for the next five years (Shirley Stoler, Johann Carlo, Gilbert Lewis , and Roland Rodriguez only appeared for the first 13 episodes before... In this article: Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Phil Hartman, Emmy Award, Johnny Depp, HBO, and Gilbert Lewis |
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Wikipedia | November 30, 2009
Doris Roberts
...appeared in A Lovely Way to Die and No Way to Treat a Lady. She also appeared in the 1970 cult film The Honeymoon Killers starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. In 1971, Roberts appeared in three films, Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends,...
In this article: Doris Roberts, Jack Ruby, Emmy Awards, Angie, Dog, William Goyen, Remington Steele, and Everybody Loves Raymond
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Seven Beauties
...is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertmuller starring Giancarlo Giannini in the main role. Fernando Rey and Shirley Stoler are also featured. Production Design and costume design by director's husband, Enrico Job.
In this article: Seven Beauties, Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Wertmuller, Academy Awards, Italian Army, Karl Otto Koch, Nezami, Ilse Koch, and Bruno Bettelheim
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Shirley Stoler
...American actress best known for her roles in The Honeymoon Killers and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties. Throughout her career, Stoler was large and often played villainesses (such as in The Honeymoon Killers and on TV in an episode of...
In this article: Lina Wertmuller, Giancarlo Giannini, The Honeymoon Killers, Charlie's Angels, Academy Award, Heart failure, Klute, and Pee-wee's Playhouse
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The Honeymoon Killers
...is a American film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. It tells the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers" who murdered at least 12 women in the...
In this article: The Honeymoon Killers, Leonard Kastle, Night of the Living Dead, The Cellar, and Raymond Fernandez
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Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers
...deviousness, they are shocked when, one night, one of their mind games goes horribly wrong and results in the death of Grace (Shirley Stoler), one of the locals. Now, try as they might, the exigenices of reality won't leave Topsy and Bunker...
In this article: Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers, Steve Gunderson, Paul Robertson, Manhattan, and New York
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Shirley Stoler (March 30, 1929 – February 17, 1999) was an American actress best known for her roles in The Honeymoon Killers and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties.
Throughout her career, Shirley Stoler was large and often played villainesses (such as in The Honeymoon Killers and on TV in an episode of Charlie's Angels) whose scariness often derived from Stoler's physical strength and size. A character actress as well as an occasional lead, Stoler appeared in small roles in classic films including Klute, The Deer Hunter, and Desperately Seeking Susan.
The highlight of her film career arguably was her turn as the repulsive Nazi female prison commandant in Lina Wertmüller's masterpiece Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975) (Seven Beauties), in which she plays a cat and mouse game of seduction with the concentration camp inmate played by Giancarlo Giannini. Giannini's inmate was very much the mouse, and Stoler's commandant was very much the cat if not the lioness, holding her prisoner/lover's life in her hands/paws. Though a profile of Stoler was featured on the front page of the New York Times Arts section, her performance — one of the most harrowing and fascinating portraits of evil ever filmed — was ignored during the awards season, likely as her dialogue had to be dubbed into Italian. The film, the success of which depended a great deal on her, was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film of 1976, and garnered Wertmüller nominations as Best Director (a first for a woman) and Best Original Screenplay, and Stoller's co-star Giannini a nod as Best Actor.
- Birth Date:
- March 30, 1929
- Birthplace:
- Brooklyn, New York
- Death Date:
- February 17, 1999
- Place of Death:
- New York City, New York
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