Shelley Duvall

Shelley Duvall's unexpected career as a film actress led to an even more surprising career as a producer of quality children's television programming, with some ancillary audio recordings spinning off from that. She was the daughter of Houston attorney Robert Duvall and his wife Bobby, and, at age 20, was selling cosmetics in a shopping mall when she met director Robert Altman, who was in town to shooting Brewster McCloud at the Astrodome. Altman and other members of the production team had been invited to a party to celebrate her engagement to artist Bernard Sampson, Jr. Altm...