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A woman discovers the downside of getting to know your neighbors in this suspense thriller. Jane Emelin (Juliette Lewis) is a young interior decorator who has inherited an apartment in New York City from a relative who has passed on. While she loves the building and the price is right, she discovers that the apartment below hers is rented out by a dangerous eccentric who soon makes her life a living hell. The 4th Floor also features William Hurt, Shelley Duvall, and Austin Pendleton. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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FULL NAME: Shelley Alexis Duvall
BIRTHDATE: July 7, 1949
BIRTH PLACE: Fort Worth, Texas
HEIGHT: 5' 8"
Brought up in Houston, Texas
FAMILY FATHER - Robert Duvall, an attorney MOTHER - Bobbi Duvall, a real estate broker BROTHERS - Scott, Shane, Stuart.
EDUCATION: South Texas Junior College MAJOR: Nutrition and Diet Therapy
MARITAL STATUS: Single. Married Bernard Sampson 1970. Divorced 1974.
RESIDENCE: Lived in Houston until 1972, then moved to Los Angeles. New York City resident since October 1976. Currently living in Houston. (as of 2002)

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"He's Large" Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeye

Few actresses have been able to keep the steady workload Shelley Duvall has managed over the past 30 years. Starting with her first movie in 1970 to her last movie, due out this year, to movies in between like The Shining and Popeye, the actress may never have been a bonafide megastar, but for a woman who never set out to be an actress, she's done pretty well.
Houston, Texas native Shelley Duvall was born July 7, 1949 and discovered in 1970 by acclaimed director Robert Altman. She was selling cosmetics at Foley's at a mall when Altman, in town to film Brewster McCloud, pulled her from the job for the role of Suzanne. Altman promptly cast Shelley in his next film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.
Shelley wouldn't work for three years after that film, which was precisely the length of time it took Robert Altman to cast her again. It was worth the wait. Shelley was the star of this film, along with Keith Carradine, and they helped Thieves Like Us to critical raves. The film quickly became a favorite among Robert Altman fans.
Shelley settled back into supporting status for her next film, which would again be directed by Robert Altman. Nashville became the highlight of Altman's career, sweeping the awards and making stars of Keith Carradine and TV performer Lily Tomlin. Shelley benefited as well, leaving Robert Altman for a TV movie, Bernice Bobs Her Hair. Shelley played the title role in the film, which aired in 1976.
For her next movie, Shelley took on another legendary director, Woody Allen. She had no way of knowing Annie Hall would become one of the director's most revered films, winning Academy Awards for Allen and star Diane Keaton, as well as the coveted Best Picture Oscar. Shelley then chose to work with Robert Altman again. It was a gamble that paid off.
3 Women, starring Shelley and Sissy Spacek, garnered Shelley the Best Actress award at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. For unknown reasons, the well-received film would be the last Shelley would do for a full three years.
Shelley's next feature debuted on television in 1980. Rumpel-stiltskin was a remake of the Grimm Brothers' classic story, co-starring Fantasy Island's Herve' Villechaize as the title character. Naturally, she couldn't stay away from her favorite director for long, and she promptly followed the TV movie up with Robert Altman's attempt at a highly touted, big summer movie. Unfortunately, Popeye, which had all the earmarks of a success, didn't live up to the hype. Shelley and comedian Robin Williams replaced Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin in the lead roles and, luckily for them, the blame for the movie's failure went to the screenwriter and director. Robin Williams laughed the film off, saying, "If you watch it backwards, it has a plot."
That same year a film Shelley shot with acclaimed perfectionistic director Stanley Kubrick debuted. Despite poor reviews and a nomination for Shelley as "Worst Actress," the film was a hit, quickly becoming Shelley's signature film. More work would follow, but she would never quite escape the fame that followed The Shining.
Shelley chose as her next film the 1981 fantasy/adventure, Time Bandits. That film would gross $42 million and nab several awards, but it would also become the last movie Shelley would do for two full years. The next time we saw her, it would be in the TV movie, Fairie Tale Theatre: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Shelley hosted the movie, which starred Ryan O'Neal's daughter, Tatum, and it would become the first in a string of family shows she would bring to the small screen.
Tim Burton cast Shelley in the starring role of his family feature film, Franken-weenie. After that film debuted, she left movies behind to host and executive produce the cable TV series, Shelley Duvall Presents American Tall Tales and Legends. With guest stars like Martin Short, Rob Reiner, and Molly Ringwald, the show was a hit, lasting a full three seasons.
After filming a supporting role in 1987's Roxanne, Shelley continued to star in TV series and films suitable for children, including Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme and the 1992 animated TV series, Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories. She had a small role in the 1995 box office bomb, Underneath, as well as the 1996 Nicole Kidman film, The Portrait of a Lady. With each appearance, Shelley seemed to be making a comeback, although one could clearly see from her filmography she'd never really been gone.
Shelley has continued to work, appearing in 1997's Changing Habits and Rocket Man, 1998's Home Fries, and the TV series, Casper Meets Wendy. She has produced several films and TV series, including the 1990 TV movie, Turn of the Screw, and has guest starred on several TV shows. Most recently she wrapped the feature film thriller, The 4th Floor, starring William Hurt and Juliette Lewis, and Dreams in the Attic, due for release later this year.
























Actress Filmography
Under the Mimosa (2001)
Manna From Heaven (2001)
Dreams in the Attic (2000)
4th Floor, The (1999)
Boltneck (2000)
Home Fries (1998)
Casper Meets Wendy (1998)(TV)
Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Changing Habits (1997)
My Teacher Ate My Homework (1997)
Horton Foote's Alone (1997)
Rocket Man (1997)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
Portrait of a Lady, The (1996)
Underneath (1995)
Frogs! (1991)
Suburban Commando (1991)
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990)(TV)
Frog (1987) (TV)
Roxanne (1987)
Booker (1984) (TV)
Frankenweenie (1984) (voice)
Rapunzel (1981)(TV)
Time Bandits (1981)
Popeye (1980)
Rumpelstiltskin (1980)(TV)
Shining, The (1980)
3 Women (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) (TV)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
Nashville (1975)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Brewster McCloud (1970)

Bronze Halo Award
Golden Halo Award
The 15th Anniversary Cableace Award
The Museum of Broadcasting Award
Chicago International Festival of Children's Films Award
VPA Monitor Award
The American Film and Video Festival Award
Paren't Choice Award

New Girl on the Screen Shelley Duvall by Patricia Bosworth Show (April 1971)
Interview with Shelley Duvall by Andy Warhol Interview (September 1977)
Shelley Duvall: A New Kind of Star by Guy Flatlay Cosmopolitan (May 1978)
Shelley Duvall: Filmdom's Most Unlikely Star by Lawrance Eisenberg Cosmopolitan (August 1981)
Pals Make Her 'Faerie Tale' Come True by Michele Herman On Cable (July 1983)
Shelley Duvall: From Ostriches to Olive Oyl by Sue Feinberg & Judd Hollander Femme Fatales (June 1999)
Two Important Lessons by Bob Dingilian 3 Women Presskit (1977)
Shelley Talks About Millie (3 Women) by Bob Dingilian 3 Women Presskit (1977)
Actress Duvall to appear with OrchestraX By Maxine Mesinger

Ecology.com
Onofficiële Nederlandse website van Shelley Duvall (In Dutch)
Internet Movie Database - Shelley Duvall
TV Now - Shelley Duvall On TV This Month
Faerie Tale Theatre
Other Sites That Might Be Of Interest
The Robert Altman Appreciation Site
The Brewster McCloud Website
Five Sisters Production
It's Only Love: Beatle Girls


Early life
Duvall was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Bobbie Ruth Crawford (née Massengale), a real estate broker, and Robert Richardson Duvall, a defense attorney. She has three brothers, Scott, Shane, and Stuart. Duvall graduated from Waltrip High School. Duvall was working as a cosmetics saleswoman at a Houston Foley's when she was discovered at a party by production scouts for Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970).

[edit] Career
After a tough interview with Altman, she won the lead role of Suzanne, the free-spirited love interest to Bud Cort's reclusive Brewster in Brewster McCloud. Altman was so impressed with Duvall's work that he cast the young actress in his next films, including McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), and Nashville (1975). In 1977, Duvall was awarded a Best Actress by the Cannes Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her portrayal of the delusional Millie Lammoreaux in Altman's 3 Women.
That same year, Duvall appeared in Annie Hall as Woody Allen's one-night stand and hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. Her next role would be Wendy opposite Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Jack Nicholson states in the documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures that Kubrick was great to work with, but that he was "a different director" with Duvall. Perhaps the most notorious example of this was Kubrick's insistence that Shelley perform 127 takes of the now-infamous "baseball-bat" scene, which broke a world-record for the most retakes of a single movie scene with spoken dialogue. Despite her turbulent relationship with Kubrick on the set, Duvall was fully satisfied with the final product and said she learned more from working with Kubrick on The Shining than she learned from working on all her previous films.
In January 1979, Robert Altman called up Duvall and offered her the role he believed she was born to play: Olive Oyl in the big-screen adaptation of Popeye. Duvall was reluctant to accept the role due to negative memories of being called "Olive Oyl" as a child, but went on to accept it in stride. Although the film fell short of expectations, critics called her "perfect" for the role and agreed with Altman that "she was born to play" the character. Though she has appeared in many movies since, she never again reached the heights she did with The Shining or Popeye.
During the making of Popeye, Duvall showed Robin Williams some of the antique illustrated fairy tale books that she had been collecting since she was 17. One of these was an old copy of "The Frog Prince." Envisioning Williams as the perfect "Frog Prince," she approached Showtime with her idea for a cable television series based on classic fairy tales. After receiving the go-ahead from Showtime, she proceeded to form her own production company, Platypus Productions, and in 1982 began executive producing Faerie Tale Theatre for Showtime. The one-hour anthology series, which ran for twenty-six episodes until 1987, featured live-action adaptations of well-known fairy tales and starred many of Duvall's celebrity friends. The first episode, "The Tale of the Frog Prince," indeed starred Robin Williams in the amphibious title role. Duvall hosted every episode and played characters in four. In 1985, she created another one-hour anthology series for Showtime with a similar concept: Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends featured live-action adaptations of American folk tales. As with Faerie Tale Theatre, the series starred well-known Hollywood actors, with Duvall serving as host, executive producer, and occasional guest star. The series ran for only nine episodes but resulted in an Emmy nomination for Duvall.
After Tall Tales and Legends ended in 1988, she founded a new production company called Think Entertainment to develop programs and made-for-TV movies for cable channels. Under the banner of both Think Entertainment and Platypus Productions, she created Nightmare Classics, a third anthology series for Showtime that adapted well-known horror stories by such authors as Edgar Alan Poe. Unlike the previous two series, Nightmare Classics was aimed at a strictly teenage and adult audience. It was the least successful series that Duvall produced for Showtime, running for only four episodes. In 1992, Think Entertainment joined forces with the newly-formed Universal Cartoon Studios to create her fourth and last original series for Showtime: "Shelly Duvall's Bedtime Stories," which brought children's storybooks to life with celebrity narrators, proved to be a comeback for Duvall, earning her a second Emmy nomination.

[edit] Current whereabouts
After playing a small role in the 2002 independent film Manna from Heaven, Duvall disappeared from the public eye. She is currently believed to be living near Austin, TX, where she has been spotted by several fans. It is not known why she stopped acting or if she has any plans to resume her career in the future.