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Critic David B. Cooley. Today we're remembering Shelly Duval, the actress and TV producer who died last

Thursday at age 75. We'll listen back to a conversation between her and Terry Gross from

1992 and we'll begin with this appreciation.

Shelly Duval was a student at a junior college in Houston when Robert Altman came to town,

scouting locations and casting extras for his 1970 movie

Brewster McLeod. The film starred Bud Court, later of Harold and Maud, as a young loner

who lives secretly in a small room in the bowels of the Houston Astrodome.

When Altman met Shelly Duval, he gave her a small supporting role in the movie,

as an Astrodome tour guide who tries to seduce the innocent Brewster. the Here I am sitting over here on the couch and inviting you to do, well, who knows what?

And you just sit there and say, oh no, I've got to go home.

From that small beginning, Shelly Duval quickly became one of the director's favorites,

appearing in six more of his movies in increasingly larger and more complex roles.

In the 1970s alone, she was in Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller,

Sieves Like Us, Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, and three women.

For that drama, which also co-starred Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule,

Shelly Duval won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Her most famous role of all, though, came when she worked for a different director.

Stanley Kubrick for his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining.

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