I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

She waShelley Wintersd off her makeup and played against type to set up Elizabeth Taylor's beauty in A Place in the Sun still a landmark American film. She also returned to the stage on various occasions during this time including a Broadway run in A Hatful of Rain in 1955-1956 opposite future husband Anthony Franciosa. Kirkland a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness also performed non-denominational last rites for Winters.

Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 – January 14 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006.