Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1966
Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue 1966
SEX WORKER ROLE
Wins Oscar For Playing A Prostitute
Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue 1966
As mentioned in Shelley’s first win for “The Diary of Anne Frank,” she has played a hooker five times. This record includes her winning an Oscar for playing a prostitute in “A Patch of Blue.” This character, acting as the ultimate mother from hell, abuses her blind daughter during the day and deceives her at 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.
Watch the trailer of the film “A Patch of Blue”
Go to The Diary of Anne Frank 1960 to read her other prostitute role.
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