 It was beautiful, too. He had hair out to here. Shelley Duvall did not intend to become an actor, but her life changed when she met filmmaker Robert Altman at a party and he cast her in Brewster McCloud. Altman loved Duvall so much he cast her in his films Popeye, Nashville, and Three Women. Wasn't it around here that the Donner party got snowbound?