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Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman Protege and Tormented Wife in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 75

The versatile actress, also memorable in 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller,' 'Nashville,' 'Popeye' and '3 Women,' produced TV series for kids as well.

Before she fled Hollywood for her native Texas in the mid-1990s, Duvall had a thriving career as a versatile, one-of-a-kind actress and head of her own production company, Think Entertainment, which created star-studded, innovative children’s programming for cable television that netted her two Emmy Award nominations. In between, the childlike star collaborated with Altman as a mail-order bride in McCabe & Mrs. Miller(1971); as the woman who has a Mississippi romance with bank robber Keith Carradine in Thieves Like Us(1974); as the groupie L.A. Joan, fond of hot pants and platform shoes, in Nashville(1975); as the wife of President Grover Cleveland in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson(1976); and as Millie Lamoureaux, a fantasizing attendant at a Palm Springs health spa for the elderly, in 3 Women(1977). Her résumé would go on to include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Bernice Bobs Her Hair(1976) for PBS, Frankenweenie(1984), Changing Habits(1997), Home Fries(1998), Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady(1996), Suburban Commando(1991) and, in her last acting appearance for a while, Manna From Heaven(2002).

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