Talk:Shelley Winters

Deathbed Wedding

See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182446,00.html for info about deathbed wedding.

Also, IMDB.com lists Gerry DeFord as her husband, 13 January 2006 - 14 January 2006 (her death)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001859/bio

67.42.85.2 04:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Year of Birth

We mention sources for the alternative year 1922, but give no sources for 1920. Why is 1920 preferred over 1922? JackofOz 03:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Katz Encyclopedia, Thomson's Biographical Dictionary, Halliwell's Who's Who all indicate 1922. Only imdb suggests 1920. Will change the article.

Philip Cross 05:21, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I removed the POV bit of the footnote about IMDB "persisting" (presumably they have their reasons for saying 1920). I wasn't necessarily asking for this to be changed, I was asking for some evidence of her true birth year. Such as documentary evidence. Just because most other reference works agree on a particular year does not in itself prove that year is correct. Where different years have been published, in the absence of evidence who is to say which of them (if any at all) is correct? Cheers JackofOz 05:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

But most things have to be taken on trust, one assumes that the repute of the sources used to be sufficient most of the time. Three against one (or five counting the previously referenced obituaries) is crude admittedly, but all we are likely to have. Philip Cross 05:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Thanks. JackofOz 05:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)