 Her most famous role of all, though, came when she worked for a different director, Stanley Kubrick, for his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. Jack Nicholson starred as Jack Torrance, a writer who accepted the job as winter caretaker for a secluded hotel, living there alone with his wife Wendy and their young son Danny. The story has supernatural overtones, but at the core, The Shining is a horror story about child and spousal abuse.