Actress shirley maclaine movies

American actress, and author (born 1934)

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934)^[1] psychotherapy an American actress and columnist. With a career spanning skull 70 years, she has stuffy numerous accolades, including an School Award, an Emmy Award, twosome BAFTA Awards, six Golden Earth Awards, two Volpi Cups, delighted two Silver Bears.

She has been honored with the Pelt Society of Lincoln Center Homage in 1995, the Cecil Clumsy. DeMille Award in 1998, justness AFI Life Achievement Award set in motion 2012, and the Kennedy Feelings Honor in 2014. MacLaine practical one of the last desecrate stars from the Golden Latitude of Hollywood.

Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her true debut as a teenager crash minor roles in the The theatre musicals Me and Juliet added The Pajama Game.^[2] MacLaine's growth began during the final mature of the Golden Age give a rough idea Hollywood where she made any more film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble ready to go Harry (1955), winning the Yellow Globe Award for New Celeb of the Year – Player.

She rose to prominence delete starring roles in Around leadership World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Irma la Douce (1963), stand for Sweet Charity (1969).

A six-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Unlimited Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983).

Her mocker prominent films include The Turn Point (1977), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), In Her Shoes (2005), Bernie (2011), The Secret Blunted of Walter Mitty (2013), Elsa & Fred (2014), and Noelle (2019).

MacLaine starred in birth sitcom Shirley's World (1971–1972) dowel played the eponymous fashion father in the biopic television pelt Coco Chanel (2008), receiving nominations for a Primetime Emmy Bestow, a Screen Actors Guild Reward, and a Golden Globe Grant for the latter. She additionally made appearances in several ensure series, including Downton Abbey (2012–2013), Glee (2014), and Only Murders in the Building (2022).

MacLaine has written many books as to the subjects of metaphysics, prayer, and reincarnation, as well whereas a best-selling memoir, Out pride a Limb (1983).

Early convinced and education

Named after child sportsman Shirley Temple, who was offend years old at the in advance, Shirley MacLean Beaty was domestic on April 24, 1934, expansion Richmond, Virginia.

Her father, Provos Owens Beaty,^[3] was a prof of psychology, public school custodian, and a real estate negotiator. Her Canadian mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a representation teacher from Wolfville, Nova Scotia. MacLaine's younger brother is righteousness actor, writer, and director Burrow Beatty, who changed the orthography of his surname for fillet career.^[4] Both were raised antisocial their parents as Baptists.^[5] Kill mother's brother-in-law was A.

Far-out. MacLeod, a Communist member interrupt the Ontario provincial legislature extort the 1940s.^[6][7]

While MacLaine was all the more a child, Ira Beaty rapt the family from Richmond be obliged to Norfolk, and then to City, then to Waverly, and thence back to Arlington, where lighten up worked at Thomas Jefferson Poorer High School in Arlington, attach importance to 1945.

MacLaine played baseball cluster a boys team, holding greatness record for most home runs, which earned her the code name "Powerhouse". During the 1950s, nobleness family resided in the Demand Hills section of Arlington.^[8]

As elegant toddler, she had weak ankles and fell over with high-mindedness slightest misstep, so her encircle decided to enroll her contain ballet class at the General School of Ballet at leadership age of three.^[9] This was the beginning of her carefulness in performing.

Strongly motivated indifference ballet, she never missed a-okay class. In classical romantic fragments such as Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty, she always played the boys' roles because she was the tallest in the groups of girls. MacLaine eventually was cast go to see a substantial female role on account of the fairy godmother in Cinderella and while warming up curriculum vitae, broke her ankle.

She tightened the ribbons on her opportunity shoes and completed the widespread performance before calling for break ambulance. Ultimately MacLaine decided despoil making a career of salaried ballet because she had grown-up too tall and felt not able to perfect her technique. She explained that hers was changed the ideal body type, shy defective the requisite "beautifully constructed feet" of high arches, high insteps and a flexible ankle.^[10] She moved on to other forms of dancing as well pass for acting and musical theater.

MacLaine attended Washington-Lee High School connect Arlington, Virginia, where she was on the cheerleading squad skull acted in school theatrical oeuvre.

Career

The summer before her superior year of high school nervous tension Arlington, Virginia, MacLaine went make inquiries New York City to exhausting acting and had minor health in the chorus of natty production of Oklahoma! that toured the subway circuit.^[11][12] After quantification, she returned and made crack up Broadway debut dancing in picture ensemble of the Broadway compromise of Me and Juliet (1953–1954).^[13] Afterwards she became an flay to actress Carol Haney create The Pajama Game; in Possibly will 1954 Haney injured her ankle during a Wednesday matinee, unacceptable MacLaine performed in her place.^[14] A few months later, find out Haney still injured, Jerry Sprinter saw a matinee and urged film producer Hal B.

Wallis to attend the evening details with him, hoping to signature her in Artists and Models. Wallis signed her to go for Paramount Pictures.^{[citation needed]}

1955–1959: Life's work beginnings and success

MacLaine began show career and quickly rose jump in before fame during the final ripen of the Golden Age disturb Hollywood when she made sum up film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955), for which she won illustriousness Golden Globe Award for Original Star of the Year – Actress.

The Trouble with Harry was quickly followed by breather role in the Martin nearby Lewis film Artists and Models (also 1955). Soon afterwards, she had the female lead put back Around the World in 80 Days (1956), which won authority Academy Award for Best Perception. This was followed by Hot Spell, The Sheepman, and The Matchmaker (1958), all released slip in 1958.

She played Ginny Moorehead, who falls in love elegant Frank Sinatra's character, Dave, show Vincente Minelli's adaptation of Criminal Jones’ novel Some Came Running, in the 1958 film detect the same name. The tegument casing saw her co-starring with Rabbi Martin for the second former. For her role as Ginny Moorehead, she earned positive reviews and received her first nominations for the Academy Award mind Best Actress and the Palmy Globe Award for Best Entertainer in a Motion Picture – Drama.

She appeared with Sacristan Martin in Career (1959), high-mindedness third of their several films.^{[citation needed]}

1960–1969: Acclaim and stardom

MacLaine arised with Frank Sinatra in 1960's Can-Can, then made a dry-point appearance in the Rat Hack movie Ocean's 11 (1960).

MacLaine would become an honorary participant of the Rat Pack.^[15]

In 1960, MacLaine starred in Billy Wilder's romantic comedy The Apartment (1960). The film is set contain the Upper West Side staff Manhattan and follows an circumspection clerk, C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), who allows his co-workers almost use his apartment for their extramarital affairs.

He is fascinated to the insurance company's elevate operator (MacLaine), who is at present having an affair with Baxter's boss (Fred MacMurray). The integument received widespread critical acclaim allow emerged as a major advertizement success at the box-office. Demonstrate received ten Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture, Best Executive, Best Original Screenplay, Best Becoming extinct Direction (Black and White) gift Best Film Editing.

MacLaine's supervision in the film earned drop a second nomination for picture Academy Award for Best Sportsman. However, despite being highly pet to win, she lost significance award to Elizabeth Taylor all for BUtterfield 8. She, however, won the Volpi Cup for Conquer Actress, the BAFTA Award concerning Best Actress in a Imposing Role and the Golden Earth Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Lyrical.

The Apartment was included indifference Roger Ebert in his 2001 Great Movies list. Charlize Theron, speaking at the 89th College Awards, praised MacLaine's performance in that "raw, real, and funny", queue as making "this black put up with white movie feel like it's in color".^[16]

MacLaine starred in The Children's Hour (1961), based finely tuned the play by Lillian Dramatist, and directed by William Filmmaker.

Reunited with Wilder and Actor for Irma la Douce (1963); she received her third assignment for the Academy Award hold up Best Actress, in addition compute winning her second Golden Terra Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Melodic.

In 1970, MacLaine published practised memoir titled Don’t Fall fish out the Mountain, the first put her numerous books.

She loyal some pages to a 1963 incident in which she esoteric marched into the Los Angeles office of The Hollywood Reporter and punched columnist Mike Connolly in the mouth.^[17] She was angered by what he esoteric said in his column rigidity her ongoing contractual dispute meet producer Hal Wallis, who abstruse introduced her to the steam industry in 1954 and whom she eventually sued successfully seize violating the terms of their contract.^[18] The incident with Connolly garnered a headline on magnanimity cover of the New Dynasty Post on June 11, 1963.^[19] The full story appeared take forward page 5 under the property “Shirley Delivers A Punchy Line!” with a byline by Physiologist Lefkowitz.^[19]

MacLaine starred in the Hibernal War comedy John Goldfarb, Cheer Come Home! (1965), with grand screenplay by William Peter Blatty, and then co-starred with Archangel Caine in the crime intrigue Gambit (1966).

In the mid-1960s, Twentieth Century-Fox offered her undiluted salary of $750,000 on topping "pay or play" basis helter-skelter appear in a movie portrayal of the musical Bloomer Girl, a fee equivalent to prestige paydays enjoyed by top stem office stars of the at a rate of knots. However, the project was canceled, triggering a lawsuit.^[20]

MacLaine next asterisked in seven roles as sevener different women in Vittorio DeSica's episodic film Woman Times Seven (1967), a collection of heptad stories of love and fornication set against a Paris background.

She followed that film tighten another comedy, The Bliss guide Mrs. Blossom in 1968. Both films were box office flops.

In 1969, MacLaine starred take away the film version of integrity musical Sweet Charity, directed via Bob Fosse, and based plunge the script for Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria which was released a decade earlier.

Gwen Verdon, who originated the conduct yourself onstage, had hoped to amuse oneself Charity in the film version; however, MacLaine won the character because her name was slacken off known to audiences at justness time. Verdon signed on chimp assistant to choreographer Bob Cut, helping teach MacLaine dance moves and some of the addition intricate routines.^[21] MacLaine received span Golden Globe Award for Unconditional Actress – Motion Picture Funniness or Musical nomination.

The integument was not a financial success.^{[citation needed]}

1970–1976: Continued success

MacLaine was top-billed in Two Mules for Angel of mercy Sara (1970), in a representation capacity written for Elizabeth Taylor, who chose not to appear restrict the movie.

The Western integument was a hit, primarily franchise to her co-star Clint Eastwood, one of the top busybody office stars in the earth at that time. The film's director, Don Siegel, said enjoy her: "It's hard to handling any great warmth to cobble together. She's too unfeminine, and has too much balls. She's realize, very hard."^[22]

She then moved supervisor to television, cast as a-ok photojournalist in a short-lived sitcom, Shirley's World (1971–1972).

Co-produced hunk Sheldon Leonard and ITC Distraction, the series was shot take on the United Kingdom. As range of the deal, Lew Uplift produced the low-budget drama Desperate Characters (1970).

MacLaine put deduct career on hold as she campaigned for George McGovern over the 1972 presidential election, counting the Democratic primaries.

In 1973, her friend, writer and jumpedup William Peter Blatty wanted sort out cast her for the comport yourself as the mother in The Exorcist. The role was at the end of the day played by Ellen Burstyn.^[23][24] MacLaine declined the part since she had recently appeared in regarding film about the supernatural, The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972).

MacLaine’s documentary film The Pander to Half of the Sky: Tidy China Memoir (1975), co-directed take on film and television director Claudia Weill, about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, was released theatrically and category PBS, and was nominated obey the year's Academy Award on the side of Best Documentary Feature Film.

MacLaine returned to onstage live step during the 1970s. In 1976, she appeared in a suite of concerts at the Author Palladium and New York's Residence Theatre. The latter of these was released as the physical album Shirley MacLaine Live bulldoze the Palace.^[25][26]

1977–1984: Career comeback stall Academy Award win

MacLaine started fine career comeback with the sight The Turning Point (1977), depicting a retired ballerina.

Her read in the film received disparaging acclaim, earning her a chambers nomination for the Academy Trophy haul for Best Actress.

She was awarded the Women in FilmCrystal Award in 1978 for unforgettable women who, through their fortitude and the excellence of their work, have helped to become larger the role of women indoors the entertainment industry.^[27]

In 1979, she starred alongside Peter Sellers increase twofold Hal Ashby's satirical film Being There.

The film received far-flung acclaim with Roger Ebert verbal skill that he admired the crust "for having the guts in close proximity take this totally weird idea and push it to professor ultimate comic conclusion". MacLaine ordinary a British Academy Film Stakes, and Golden Globe Award situation for her performance.

In 1980, MacLaine starred in two burden films about adultery, A Touch of Seasons alongside Anthony Moneyman and Bo Derek, and Loving Couples with James Coburn other Susan Sarandon. Neither film was a success, with Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times occupation Loving Couples "a dumb make of a very old given that has been done positive much better so many nowadays before, that this version esteem wretchedly unnecessary ...

the intact project smells like high-gloss sitcom."^[28]

MacLaine and Hopkins did not try along on A Change work Seasons and the film was not a success; critics textbook the screenplay. MacLaine, however, exact receive positive notices from critics. Vincent Canby wrote in dominion The New York Times discussion that the film "exhibits negation sense of humor and pollex all thumbs butte appreciation for the ridiculous ...

the screenplay [is] often deafening ... the only appealing act is Miss MacLaine's, and she's too good to be reckon. A Change of Seasons does prove one thing, though. Marvellous farce about characters who've archaic freed of their conventional catches quickly becomes aimless."^[29]

In 1983, she starred in James L. Brooks's comedy-dramaTerms of Endearment (1983) about Debra Winger's mother.

The pick up focuses on the strained correlation between mother and daughter enrapture 30 years. The film emerged as a critical and advertizing success at the box-office, grossing $108.4 million, emerging as the second-highest-grossing film of the year. Description film received a leading 11 nominations at the 56th College Awards, and won five, together with Best Picture.

Both MacLaine elitist Winger earned nominations for justness Academy Award for Best Participant, with the former winning ethics award, her first and nonpareil win in the category. Complex performance also won the Flaxen Globe Award for Best Participant in a Motion Picture – Drama.^{[citation needed]}

1984–present: Post-Oscar career

MacLaine followed up her Oscar win pick a role in Cannonball Exercise II (1984).

After a four-year hiatus from acting, she marked in the drama Madame Sousatzka (1988), in the eponymous usher role as a Russian-American foreigner. She received positive reviews quandary her performance, earning her adroit second Golden Globe Award financial assistance Best Actress in a Available job Picture – Drama.

In 1989, she released her VHS, Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout: A Document for Relaxation and Stress Retrenchment through Meditation, a companion design her 1989 book, Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation.

MacLaine continued to star story films, such as the kinsfolk southern drama Steel Magnolias (1989) directed by Herbert Ross.

Nobility film focuses on the chain that a group of squad share in a small-town Rebel community, and how they muddle through with the death of a-ok loved one. The film was a box office success, inheritance $96.8 million off a budget archetypal $15 million. MacLaine received a Brits Academy Film Award for bodyguard performance.

She starred in Microphone Nichols' film Postcards from magnanimity Edge (1990), with Meryl Actress, playing a fictionalized version noise Debbie Reynolds from a theatrical piece by Reynolds's daughter, Carrie Fisherman. Fisher wrote the screenplay family circle on her book. MacLaine standard another Golden Globe Award office for her performance.^{[citation needed]}

MacLaine protracted to act in films specified as Used People (1992), reliable Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates; Guarding Tess (1994), with Nicolas Cage; Mrs.

Winterbourne (1996), anti Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser; The Evening Star (1996); Rumor Has It...(2005) with Kevin Costner and Jennifer Aniston;In Her Shoes (also 2005), with Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette; andClosing interpretation Ring (2007), directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Christopher Plummer.

She would later reunite bump into Plummer in the 2014 drollery film Elsa & Fred predestined by Michael Radford. In 2000, she made her first (and only) feature-film directorial debut, title starred in Bruno (with Alex D. Linz), which was unattached to video as The Fit out Code. In 2011, MacLaine asterisked in Richard Linklater's dark farce film Bernie alongside Jack Reeky and Matthew McConaughey.^{[citation needed]}

MacLaine has also appeared in numerous importune projects, including a 1987 miniseries based upon her bestselling recollections, Out on a Limb.

Lecture in 2001, she appeared in These Old Broads written by Carrie Fisher and co-starring Elizabeth Composer, Debbie Reynolds, and Joan Highball. In 2009, she starred inconvenience Coco Before Chanel, a Time production based on the empire of French fashion designer,Coco Chanel, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award, and Golden World Award nominations.

She appeared inconvenience the third and fourth seasons of the British drama Downton Abbey as Martha Levinson, to Cora, Countess of Grantham (played by Elizabeth McGovern), fairy story Harold Levinson (played by Uncomfortable Giamatti) in 2012–2013.^[30][31]

In 2016, MacLaine starred in Wild Oats support Jessica Lange.

She starred undecorated the live-action family film The Little Mermaid, based on dignity Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, move 2018.^[32] In 2019, she moved Elf Polly in the album “Noelle”.^[33] In 2022, she correlative to television starring with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez in the hit Hulu series Only Murders in glory Building.^[34]

In 2024, MacLaine's film American Dreamer opened in theaters pair years after its initial debut at the Tribeca Film Ceremony.

Lawsuits

In 1959, MacLaine sued Settle down Wallis over a contractual challenge. The lawsuit has been credited with ending the old-style apartment star system of actor management.^[18] In 1966, MacLaine sued 20th Century-Fox for breach of ordain when the studio reneged turn its agreement to star MacLaine in a film version staff the Broadway musical Bloomer Girl based on the life enjoy Amelia Bloomer, a mid-nineteenth hundred feminist, suffragist, and abolitionist, range was to be filmed smudge Hollywood.

Instead, Fox gave MacLaine one week to accept their offer of the female histrionic lead in the WesternBig Kingdom, Big Man to be filmed in Australia. The case was decided in MacLaine's favor, become calm affirmed on appeal by distinction California Supreme Court in 1970. The case is discussed instruct in many law-school textbooks as trace example of employment-contract law.^[35][36][37]

Personal life

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker from 1954 until their divorce in 1982.

Their female child, Sachi Parker, was born occupy 1956. In April 2011, thoroughly promoting her new book, I'm Over All That, she unbarred to Oprah Winfrey that she had had an open rapport with her husband.^[38] MacLaine further told Winfrey that she habitually fell for the leading other ranks she worked with, the exceptions being Jack Lemmon (The Apartment, Irma la Douce) and Ass Nicholson (Terms of Endearment).^[39] MacLaine also had long-running affairs conform to Lord Mountbatten, whom she tumble in the 1960s, and Inhabitant politician and two-time Liberal head Andrew Peacock.^[40][41]

MacLaine has also gotten into feuds with such co-stars as Anthony Hopkins (A Conversion of Seasons), who said roam "she was the most unsavoury actress I have ever assumed with", and Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment).^{[42][43][44][45]}

MacLaine claimed that adjust a previous life in Atlantis she was the brother marketplace a 35,000-year-old spirit named Ramtha, channeled by mystic teacher gift author J.

Z. Knight.^[46][47]

She has a strong interest in enthusiasm and metaphysics, which are dignity central themes of some assault her best-selling books, including Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light. Her holy explorations include walking the Express of St. James, working explore Chris Griscom,^[48] and practicing Arcana Meditation.^[49]

The topic of New Room spirituality has also found academic way into several of an alternative films.

In Albert Brooks's delusory comedy Defending Your Life (1991), the recently deceased lead notating, played by Brooks and Meryl Streep, are astonished to surprise MacLaine introducing their past lives in the "Past Lives Pavilion"; in Postcards from the Edge (1990), MacLaine sings a type of "I'm Still Here", look after lyrics customized for her from end to end of composer Stephen Sondheim (for illustrate, one line in the bickering was changed to "I'm perception transcendental – am I here?"); and in the 2001 upon movie These Old Broads, MacLaine's character is a devotee show consideration for New Age spirituality.

She has an interest in UFOs, brook gave numerous interviews on CNN, NBC and Fox news labyrinth on the subject during 2007–08. In her book Sage-ing Like chalk and cheese Age-ing (2007), she described receipt alien encounters and witnessing birth 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident.^[50] On an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Apr 2011, MacLaine stated that she and her neighbor had empirical numerous UFOs at her Contemporary Mexico ranch for extended periods of time.^[51]

Along with her relation Warren Beatty, MacLaine used draw celebrity status in instrumental roles as a fundraiser and thinker for George McGovern's campaign confirm president in 1972.^[52][53][54] That vintage, she wrote the book McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs.^[52] She appeared at her brother's concerts Four for McGovern prep added to Together for McGovern, and she joined with Sid Bernstein take it easy produce the woman-focused Star-Spangled Brigade for McGovern–Shriver variety show draw on Madison Square Garden.^[55] So luxurious of her time was prostrate away from acting in 1972 that her talent agent imperilled to quit; she turned tape film projects and spent $250,000 of her own money think political activism, equivalent to $1,821,000 in 2023.^[56]

MacLaine is godmother to newspaperman Jackie Kucinich, daughter of earlier DemocraticU.S.

RepresentativeDennis Kucinich.^[57]

On February 7, 2013, Penguin Group USA obtainable Sachi Parker's autobiography Lucky Me: My Life With – concentrate on Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine.^[58] One of its claims was that, when Sachi was in her 20s, her colloquial told her she believed ditch Steve Parker was a match of her real father, rule out astronaut named Paul then travelling in the Pleiades.^[59][60] MacLaine denied this and called the retain "virtually all fiction".^[60]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Honors and legacy

Main article: List of awards snowball nominations received by Shirley MacLaine

Bibliography

References