Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1966
Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue 1966
Wins Oscar For Playing A Prostitute
Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue 1966
As mentioned in Winters’s first win for “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Shelley has played a hooker five times. Including winning an Oscar for playing a prostitute in “A Patch of Blue.” As the ultimate mother from hell, this character abuses her blind daughter by day and turns tricks by night. When Shelley’s character finds out she is seeing a black man, things get worse for the daughter, which ruins her plans to pimp out her blind daughter to potential johns.
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