There was an air of mystery around Shelley Duvall in later years.
The retired actor died in her sleep, aged 75, at her home in Blanco, Texas, according to her long-term partner Dan Gilroy.
It's understood she died from complications of diabetes.
Duvall has starred in some of Hollywood's biggest films during the 1970s and '80s, including The Shining, Annie Hall and Popeye.
But she seemingly called time on her career in 2002.
For the past two decades, she had chosen to reside in a quiet Texas town, decidedly out of the spotlight.
Rumours about her mental health fuelled speculation about her apparent disappearance over the years as internet sleuths attempted to pinpoint the cause for her retirement.
The Shining myth
A pervasive myth claims she suffered from residual trauma from working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining.
The film took 56 weeks to film, mostly due to Kubrick's perfectionist process, which is said to often require dozens of retakes.
According to Guinness World Records, the film holds the record for most retakes for one scene with dialogue, at 148.
When asked about her time on set in rare interviews she accepted later in life, Duvall appeared to remember the experience with some fondness.
"[Kubrick] was very warm and friendly to me," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021.
"He spent a lot of time with Jack [Nicholson] and me.
"He just wanted to sit down and talk for hours while the crew waited."
But she admitted the multiple retakes were taxing.
"After a while, your body rebels. It says: 'Stop doing this to me. I don't want to cry every day'."
In reality, the reasons Duvall gave for her move to Texas were perhaps more prosaic.
Family, finances and an earthquake
People reported in 2023 she packed up her life in Los Angeles when one of her brothers was diagnosed with spinal cancer.
"It's the longest sabbatical I ever took but it was for really important reasons — to get in touch with my family again," she said in an interview with the publication.
The actor also previously admitted to struggling with finances around the time of her move, which motivated travelling to Houston for help from her mother.
"You just didn't get paid much – just scale and plus 10 per cent," she told People.
"They thought women would just marry and the husband's going to support them.
"But that doesn't happen for everybody."
In her interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Duvall hinted that the fallout from the Northridge earthquake on January 17, 1994 was a final straw for her life in Los Angeles.
"They wear you out, man," she said. "The people.
"Afterwards, it's like FEMA, then the next guys, and then the next guys.
"Engineers one day, insurance people the next. Sometimes at the same time…"
Duvall ultimately travelled to Austin, Texas later that year after taking a small role in The Underneath.
She never left the state again and faded from the limelight.
Life after the silver screen
Reporters who spoke to Duvall in Bianco, the town she called home, noted her life seemed worlds away from the one she led in Los Angeles.
Duvall was often confined to the driver's seat of her white SUV as a result of mobility issues.
From her perch, the retired actor spent her days talking to other residents of the town, frequenting drive-throughs and visiting local nature spots.
Her figure was no longer waif-like, her hair had thinned and greyed, and her recognisable voice had turned gravelly from chain-smoking.
Despite putting her acting career behind her, Duvall reportedly seemed proud of her work and would share details of her time in Hollywood.
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