Shelley Winters

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street. In 1991 Curtis died in his sleep of natural causes in Fresno, California. By 1959, she had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank. His last role was as cattle rancher "Seaborn Tay" in the TV production Conagher (1991), by famed Western author Louis L'Amour, starring Sam Elliot in the lead role. Her first movie was What a Woman! in 1943. Inducted (as a cast member of "Gunsmoke") into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1981. Kennedy. Cedar Jack, who lived about 40 miles out of town in the hills, made a living cutting cedar fence posts, gave Curtis plenty of opportunity to observe him when Jack would come to Las Animas where he would usually end up drunk and in jail.

Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Festus is patterned after “Cedar Jack”, a man from Ken’s Las Animas childhood. She is said to have had an affair with Joseph P. Ken is best known for his long-running role as Festus Hagen, the scrofulous, cantankerous deputy in the TV series Gunsmoke. Louis, Illinois, she is known to today's audiences as a large figure of comedians' scathing humor, but when she began her career, she was known as a voluptuous beauty. In the 1950's Curtis even tried his hand at producing with two extremely low-budget monster films, The Killer Shrews and The Giant Gila Monster. Born Shirley Schrift in East St. Curtis also teamed up with Ford, along with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, and William Powell in the comedy Navy classic Mister Roberts.

Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1920) is an American actress. This son-in-law of director John Ford teamed up with father-in-law and also John Wayne in Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, The Searchers, The Horse Soldiers, and How The West Was Won. 1952 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun. Ken Curtis, who was a singer before he moved into acting, sang with the Sons of the Pioneers and Tommy Dorsey's band. Movie audiences will hear his voice from the introduction of the western standard: "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". 1960 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Diary of Anne Frank. The family lived above the jail and his mother, Nellie (Sneed) Gates, cooked for the prisoners. 1966 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of Blue. Dan Gates, his father, was the sheriff in Las Animas.

1973 - Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Poseidon Adventure. Curtis Wain Gates and raised in Las Animas, Colorado). (b. Ken Curtis (July 2, 1916 - April 29, 1991), Singer-Actor, best known as "Festus" of Gunsmoke fame.