Shelley Duvall Dies at 75

[Mark Jeffries]

The pencil-thin, quirky actress is of course best known for her memorable film roles (many of them for director Robert Altman), but she also made a notable contribution to early cable television with "Faerie Tale Theatre," the series she created, produced and hosted for Showtime that presented familiar and unfamiliar fairy tales in sumptuous productions and more celebrity guest stars than you'd expect from a cable TV series--it won a Peabody and TCA award and would've won Emmys if cable was eligible back then--died of complication from diabetes at her Texas home:

https://www.thewrap.com/shelley-duvall-dead/

"Faerie Tale Theatre" has not aired on U.S. television since the Disney Channel repeated it in the mid-90s--one would think that there would be a home on streaming for this series.

[Kevin M.]

I’m gonna be honest: she creeped me out when I saw The Shining at much too young an age, and I was absolutely creeped out by every aspect of the Popeye movie she costarred in. I was never able to appreciate her talents after that. I’m told she was a nice person. I’m sure she was talented. But I just couldn’t. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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