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Her impassive, imposing face was stark and chilling and her immense frame intimidating and equally foreboding. Born in 1929 Brooklynese actress Shirley Stoler started off as a member of the New York's La Mama and Living Theatre companies. She had reached Broadway by the time she earned cult film infamy in 1970. First, but not necessarily foremost, was her portrayal of real-life homicidal maniac Ma ...  show all 

Her impassive, imposing face was stark and chilling and her immense frame intimidating and equally foreboding. Born in 1929 Brooklynese actress Shirley Stoler started off as a member of the New York's La Mama and Living Theatre companies. She had reached Broadway by the time she earned cult film infamy in 1970. First, but not necessarily foremost, was her portrayal of real-life homicidal maniac Martha Beck in the lowbudget cult flick "The Honeymoon Killers (1970)" ). Paired up with Tony Lo Bianco's brazen Raymond Fernandez, the two created a formidable pair of "Lonelyhearts" serial murderers that still is talked about today. As if nothing could out-creep this role, she did so most convincingly as the terrifyingly repulsive, whip-carrying commandant in Lina Wertmüller's WWII masterpiece "The Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)" [Seven Beauties]. Her reviling seduction byplay with Giancarlo Giannini, playing a concentration camp inmate whose life is left in her hands, remains one of the most harrowing and fascinating scenes ever filmed. For the duration of her career, however, Shirley was rather obliquely cast either as minor ethnic hausfrau or seedy streetwise characters. Featured in lowbudget drek unworthy of her talents, her minor gallery of grotesques included the prison guard in "Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)", Spike the Bartender in "Frankenhooker (1990)", and the pawnshop store owner in "Miami Blues (1990)" in which she chops con man Alec Baldwin's fingers off with a machete. Occasionally she was given a more humane part, such as her grief-stricken Vietnam-war mom in the high quality Oscar winner "Deer Hunter (1978)", but, again, it was too insignificant a role to make any substantial impact. On TV Shirley made frequent guest appearances and was a short-lived regular on both daytime and nighttime drama, both comedic ("Pee-wee's Playhouse") and dramatic ("Skag"). She died of heart failure in 1999.  hide