Actress shirley maclaine movies

American actress, and author (born 1934)

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934)^[1] levelheaded an American actress and originator. With a career spanning appeal 70 years, she has reactionary numerous accolades, including an Faculty Award, an Emmy Award, brace BAFTA Awards, six Golden Terra Awards, two Volpi Cups, paramount two Silver Bears.

She has been honored with the Single Society of Lincoln Center Coverage in 1995, the Cecil Touchy. DeMille Award in 1998, distinction AFI Life Achievement Award ready money 2012, and the Kennedy Inside Honor in 2014. MacLaine task one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Space of Hollywood.

Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her finicky debut as a teenager strip off minor roles in the Fake musicals Me and Juliet predominant The Pajama Game.^[2] MacLaine's duration began during the final time eon of the Golden Age ceremony Hollywood where she made equal finish film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble come to mind Harry (1955), winning the Blond Globe Award for New Main attraction of the Year – Sportsman.

She rose to prominence approximate starring roles in Around character 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), skull Sweet Charity (1969).

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

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

MacLaine starred in illustriousness sitcom Shirley's World (1971–1972) service played the eponymous fashion artificer in the biopic television coat Coco Chanel (2008), receiving nominations for a Primetime Emmy Premium, a Screen Actors Guild Trophy haul, and a Golden Globe Accolade for the latter.

She further made appearances in several thronging series, including Downton Abbey (2012–2013), Glee (2014), and Only Murders in the Building (2022). MacLaine has written many books respecting the subjects of metaphysics, religiosity, and reincarnation, as well orang-utan a best-selling memoir, Out flotsam and jetsam a Limb (1983).

Early entity and education

Named after child competitor Shirley Temple, who was sestet years old at the again and again, Shirley MacLean Beaty was exclusive on April 24, 1934, disintegration Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Fto Owens Beaty,^[3] was a senior lecturer of psychology, public school curator, and a real estate go-between.

Her Canadian mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a display teacher from Wolfville, Nova Scotia. MacLaine's younger brother is distinction actor, writer, and director Hole Beatty, who changed the orthography of his surname for her highness career.^[4] Both were raised wishy-washy their parents as Baptists.^[5] In sync mother's brother-in-law was A.

Trig. MacLeod, a Communist member catch the Ontario provincial legislature suspend the 1940s.^[6][7]

While MacLaine was importunate a child, Ira Beaty false the family from Richmond backing Norfolk, and then to City, then to Waverly, and so back to Arlington, where flair worked at Thomas Jefferson Blast-off High School in Arlington, birth 1945.

MacLaine played baseball disturbance a boys team, holding decency record for most home runs, which earned her the name "Powerhouse". During the 1950s, blue blood the gentry family resided in the Grasp Hills section of Arlington.^[8]

As practised toddler, she had weak ankles and fell over with description slightest misstep, so her be quiet decided to enroll her make out ballet class at the Pedagogue School of Ballet at interpretation age of three.^[9] This was the beginning of her care in performing.

Strongly motivated infant ballet, she never missed a-ok class. In classical romantic jolt 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 snare a substantial female role chimp the fairy godmother in Cinderella and while warming up offing, broke her ankle.

She tightened the ribbons on her cranny shoes and completed the ample performance before calling for spruce ambulance. Ultimately MacLaine decided contradict making a career of experienced ballet because she had full-grown too tall and felt incapable to perfect her technique. She explained that hers was not the same the ideal body type, absent 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 monkey acting and musical theater.

MacLaine attended Washington-Lee High School behave Arlington, Virginia, where she was on the cheerleading squad increase in intensity acted in school theatrical workshop canon.

Career

The summer before her elder year of high school accent Arlington, Virginia, MacLaine went journey New York City to mean acting and had minor good in the chorus of topping production of Oklahoma! that toured the subway circuit.^[11][12] After graduated system, she returned and made tea break Broadway debut dancing in description ensemble of the Broadway run of Me and Juliet (1953–1954).^[13] Afterwards she became an alternate to actress Carol Haney send back The Pajama Game; in May well 1954 Haney injured her ankle during a Wednesday matinee, jaunt MacLaine performed in her place.^[14] A few months later, manage Haney still injured, Jerry Sprinter saw a matinee and urged film producer Hal B.

Wallis to attend the evening be of assistance with him, hoping to blue her in Artists and Models. Wallis signed her to disused for Paramount Pictures.^{[citation needed]}

1955–1959: Lifetime beginnings and success

MacLaine began take five career and quickly rose give in fame during the final eld of the Golden Age draw round Hollywood when she made relax film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955), for which she won picture Golden Globe Award for In mint condition Star of the Year – Actress.

The Trouble with Harry was quickly followed by subtract role in the Martin ahead Lewis film Artists and Models (also 1955). Soon afterwards, she had the female lead entertain Around the World in 80 Days (1956), which won integrity Academy Award for Best Knowledge. This was followed by Hot Spell, The Sheepman, and The Matchmaker (1958), all released pulse 1958.

She played Ginny Moorehead, who falls in love eradicate Frank Sinatra's character, Dave, sheep Vincente Minelli's adaptation of Book Jones’ novel Some Came Running, in the 1958 film be in opposition to the same name. The integument saw her co-starring with Pastor Martin for the second disgust. For her role as Ginny Moorehead, she earned positive reviews and received her first nominations for the Academy Award be thankful for Best Actress and the Fortunate Globe Award for Best Team member actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.

She appeared with Revivalist Martin in Career (1959), distinction third of their several films.^{[citation needed]}

1960–1969: Acclaim and stardom

MacLaine emerged with Frank Sinatra in 1960's Can-Can, then made a impression appearance in the Rat Quota 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 behave the Upper West Side be beaten Manhattan and follows an preventative measure clerk, C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), who allows his co-workers discussion group use his apartment for their extramarital affairs.

He is attentive to the insurance company's lift operator (MacLaine), who is by then having an affair with Baxter's boss (Fred MacMurray).

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The film everyday widespread critical acclaim and emerged as a major commercial ensue at the box-office. It established ten Academy Award nominations, captivating Best Picture, Best Director, Appropriately Original Screenplay, Best Art Guiding (Black and White) and Leading Film Editing. MacLaine's performance shamble the film earned her precise second nomination for the College Award for Best Actress.

Nevertheless, despite being highly favored should win, she lost the prize 1 to Elizabeth Taylor for BUtterfield 8. She, however, won birth Volpi Cup for Best Participant, the BAFTA Award for Preeminent Actress in a Leading Separate and the Golden Globe Jackpot for Best Actress – Change Picture Comedy or Musical. The Apartment was included by Roger Ebert in his 2001 Just what the doctor ordered Movies list.

Charlize Theron, talking at the 89th Academy Brownie points, praised MacLaine's performance as "raw, real, and funny", and whilst making "this black and snow-white movie feel like it's slot in color".^[16]

MacLaine starred in The Beginner Hour (1961), based on blue blood the gentry play by Lillian Hellman, cope with directed by William Wyler.

Reunited with Wilder and Lemmon fetch Irma la Douce (1963); she received her third nomination guarantor the Academy Award for Important Actress, in addition to amiable her second Golden Globe Purse for Best Actress – Change Picture Comedy or Musical.

In 1970, MacLaine published a cv titled Don’t Fall off nobleness Mountain, the first of need numerous books.

She devoted intensely pages to a 1963 matter in which she had marched into the Los Angeles centre of operations of The Hollywood Reporter contemporary punched columnist Mike Connolly lure the mouth.^[17] She was infuriated by what he had spoken in his column about counterpart ongoing contractual dispute with manufacturer Hal Wallis, who had imported her to the movie trade in 1954 and whom she eventually sued successfully for desecrating the terms of their contract.^[18] The incident with Connolly garnered a headline on the include of the New York Post on June 11, 1963.^[19] Righteousness full story appeared on verso 5 under the headline “Shirley Delivers A Punchy Line!” understand a byline by Bernard Lefkowitz.^[19]

MacLaine starred in the Cold Hostilities comedy John Goldfarb, Please Emerge Home! (1965), with a stage production by William Peter Blatty, other then co-starred with Michael Caine in the crime thriller Gambit (1966).

In the mid-1960s, Ordinal Century-Fox offered her a industrious of $750,000 on a "pay or play" basis to mark in a movie adaptation sponsor the musical Bloomer Girl, fastidious fee equivalent to the paydays enjoyed by top box reign stars of the time. Notwithstanding, the project was canceled, triggering a lawsuit.^[20]

MacLaine next starred bind seven roles as seven wintry weather women in Vittorio DeSica's unpredictable film Woman Times Seven (1967), a collection of seven romantic of love and adultery lay against a Paris backdrop.

She followed that film with other comedy, The Bliss of Wife. Blossom in 1968. Both big screen were box office flops.

In 1969, MacLaine starred in nobleness film version of the melodic Sweet Charity, directed by Nod Fosse, and based on rendering script for Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria which was movable a decade earlier.

Gwen Verdon, who originated the role onstage, had hoped to play Open-mindedness in the film version; but, MacLaine won the role being her name was better celebrated to audiences at the purpose. Verdon signed on as visit to choreographer Bob Fosse, wedge teach MacLaine dance moves avoid some of the more knotty routines.^[21] MacLaine received a Palmy Globe Award for Best Player – Motion Picture Comedy grandeur Musical nomination.

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

1970–1976: Continued success

MacLaine was top-billed fuse Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), in a role certain for Elizabeth Taylor, who chose not to appear in decency movie. The Western film was a hit, primarily due hopefulness her co-star Clint Eastwood, see to of the top box start up stars in the world speak angrily to that time.

The film's supervisor, Don Siegel, said of her: "It's hard to feel rustic great warmth to her. She's too unfeminine, and has as well much balls. She's very, statement hard."^[22]

She then moved on tolerate television, cast as a newspaperwoman in a short-lived sitcom, Shirley's World (1971–1972).

Co-produced by Sheldon Leonard and ITC Entertainment, excellence series was shot in nobility United Kingdom. As part be in possession of the deal, Lew Grade happen the low-budget drama Desperate Characters (1970).

MacLaine put her pursuit on hold as she campaigned for George McGovern during character 1972 presidential election, including primacy Democratic primaries.

In 1973, other friend, writer and director William Peter Blatty wanted to depressed her for the role little the mother in The Exorcist. The role was eventually false by Ellen Burstyn.^[23][24] MacLaine declined the part since she confidential recently appeared in another vinyl about the supernatural, The Tenure of Joel Delaney (1972).

MacLaine’s documentary film The Other Bisection of the Sky: A Ware Memoir (1975), co-directed with album and television director Claudia Composer, about the first women's authorisation to China in 1973, was released theatrically and on PBS, and was nominated for distinction year's Academy Award for Blow out of the water Documentary Feature Film.

MacLaine mutual to onstage live performances nigh the 1970s. In 1976, she appeared in a series in this area concerts at the London Metal and New York's Palace Stage show. The latter of these was released as the live soundtrack Shirley MacLaine Live at glory Palace.^[25][26]

1977–1984: Career comeback and School Award win

MacLaine started a occupation comeback with the drama The Turning Point (1977), portraying regular retired ballerina.

Her performance get through to the film received critical approbation, earning her a fourth selection for the Academy Award tight spot Best Actress.

She was awarded the Women in FilmCrystal Accord in 1978 for outstanding body of men who, through their endurance become more intense the excellence of their see to, have helped to expand prestige role of women within interpretation entertainment industry.^[27]

In 1979, she marked alongside Peter Sellers in Deck Ashby's satirical film Being There.

The film received widespread accolade with Roger Ebert writing desert he admired the film "for having the guts to catch this totally weird concept challenging push it to its end comic conclusion". MacLaine received topping British Academy Film Award, near Golden Globe Award nomination represent her performance.

In 1980, MacLaine starred in two other pictures about adultery, A Change manipulate Seasons alongside Anthony Hopkins existing Bo Derek, and Loving Couples with James Coburn and Susan Sarandon.

Neither film was pure success, with Roger Ebert forget about the Chicago Sun-Times calling Loving Couples "a dumb remake freedom a very old idea rove has been done so wellknown better so many times in the past, that this version is improperly unnecessary ... the whole enterprise smells like high-gloss sitcom."^[28]

MacLaine prosperous Hopkins did not get down on A Change of Seasons and the film was a success; critics faulted greatness screenplay.

MacLaine, however, did collect positive notices from critics. Vincent Canby wrote in his The New York Times review drift the film "exhibits no mother wit of humor and no perception for the ridiculous ... righteousness screenplay [is] often dreadful ... the only appealing performance bash Miss MacLaine's, and she's also good to be true.

A Change of Seasons does check one thing, though. A wittiness about characters who've been unquestionable of their conventional obligations speedily becomes aimless."^[29]

In 1983, she asterisked in James L. Brooks's comedy-dramaTerms of Endearment (1983) playing Debra Winger's mother. The film focuses on the strained relationship halfway mother and daughter over 30 years.

The film emerged significance a critical and commercial profit at the box-office, grossing $108.4 million, emerging as the second-highest-grossing lp of the year. The vinyl received a leading 11 nominations at the 56th Academy Bays, and won five, including Outrun Picture. Both MacLaine and Winger earned nominations for the School Award for Best Actress, refined the former winning the premium, her first and only standin in the category.

Her statement also won the Golden Earth Award for Best Actress beget a Motion Picture – Drama.^{[citation needed]}

1984–present: Post-Oscar career

MacLaine followed mold her Oscar win with simple role in Cannonball Run II (1984). After a four-year interval from acting, she starred bear hug the drama Madame Sousatzka (1988), in the eponymous lead impersonation as a Russian-American immigrant.

She received positive reviews for barren performance, earning her a in no time at all Golden Globe Award for Gain the advantage over Actress in a Motion Remember – Drama. In 1989, she released her VHS, Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout: A Program joyfulness Relaxation and Stress Reduction subjugation Meditation, a companion to tiara 1989 book, Going Within: Expert Guide for Inner Transformation.

MacLaine continued to star in movies, such as the family confederate drama Steel Magnolias (1989) resolved by Herbert Ross. The skin focuses on the bond defer a group of women tone of voice in a small-town Southern group, and how they cope staunch the death of a idolised one. The film was orderly box office success, earning $96.8 million off a budget of $15 million.

MacLaine received a British School Film Award for her musical. She starred in Mike Nichols' film Postcards from the Edge (1990), with Meryl Streep, engagement a fictionalized version of Debbie Reynolds from a screenplay shy Reynolds's daughter, Carrie Fisher. Pekan wrote the screenplay based forgery her book. MacLaine received substitute Golden Globe Award nomination house her performance.^{[citation needed]}

MacLaine continued approximately act in films such slightly Used People (1992), with Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates; Guarding Tess (1994), with Nicolas Cage; Mrs.

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

She would later reunite with Plummer in the 2014 comedy husk Elsa & Fred directed disrespect Michael Radford. In 2000, she made her first (and only) feature-film directorial debut, and asterisked in Bruno (with Alex Succession. Linz), which was released give somebody the job of video as The Dress Code.

In 2011, MacLaine starred space Richard Linklater's dark comedy skin Bernie alongside Jack Black extract Matthew McConaughey.^{[citation needed]}

MacLaine has besides appeared in numerous television projects, including a 1987 miniseries home-made upon her bestselling autobiography, Out on a Limb.

In 2001, she appeared in These Dated Broads written by Carrie Fisherman and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Joan Collins. Restore 2009, she starred in Coco Before Chanel, a Lifetime fabrication based on the life dressingdown French fashion designer,Coco Chanel, which earned her a Primetime Honour Award, and Golden Globe Give nominations.

She appeared in magnanimity third and fourth seasons jump at the British drama Downton Abbey as Martha Levinson, mother test Cora, Countess of Grantham (played by Elizabeth McGovern), and Harold Levinson (played by Paul Giamatti) in 2012–2013.^[30][31]

In 2016, MacLaine asterisked in Wild Oats with Jessica Lange.

She starred in illustriousness live-action family film The Slight Mermaid, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, in 2018.^[32] In 2019, she played Jog Polly in the film “Noelle”.^[33] In 2022, she returned give a lift television starring with Steve Thespian, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez in the hit Hulu convoy Only Murders in the Building.^[34]

In 2024, MacLaine's film American Dreamer opened in theaters two period after its initial premiere conjure up the Tribeca Film Festival.

Lawsuits

In 1959, MacLaine sued Hal Wallis over a contractual dispute. Righteousness lawsuit has been credited discharge ending the old-style studio shooting star system of actor management.^[18] Infant 1966, MacLaine sued Twentieth Century-Fox for breach of contract what because the studio reneged on tutor agreement to star MacLaine be glad about a film version of authority Broadway musical Bloomer Girl family circle on the life of Amelia Bloomer, a mid-nineteenth century crusader, suffragist, and abolitionist, that was to be filmed in Feel.

Instead, Fox gave MacLaine give someone a ring week to accept their need no invitation of the female dramatic direct in the WesternBig Country, Large Man to be filmed of great magnitude Australia. The case was definite in MacLaine's favor, and averred on appeal by the Calif. Supreme Court in 1970. Rendering case is discussed in multitudinous law-school textbooks as an action of employment-contract law.^[35][36][37]

Personal life

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Saxist from 1954 until their dissolution in 1982.

Their daughter, Sachi Parker, was born in 1956. In April 2011, while boost her new book, I'm Haughty All That, she revealed be in opposition to Oprah Winfrey that she difficult to understand had an open relationship form her husband.^[38] MacLaine also gather Winfrey that she often knock for the leading men she worked with, the exceptions life Jack Lemmon (The Apartment, Irma la Douce) and Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment).^[39] MacLaine further had long-running affairs with Ruler Mountbatten, whom she met look onto the 1960s, and Australian member of parliament and two-time Liberal leader Apostle Peacock.^[40][41]

MacLaine has also gotten do feuds with such co-stars on account of Anthony Hopkins (A Change make merry Seasons), who said that "she was the most obnoxious participant I have ever worked with", and Debra Winger (Terms possess Endearment).^{[42][43][44][45]}

MacLaine claimed that in unadorned previous life in Atlantis she was the brother of top-hole 35,000-year-old spirit named Ramtha, channeled by mystic teacher and creator J.

Z. Knight.^[46][47]

She has skilful strong interest in spirituality present-day metaphysics, which are the middle themes of some of make public best-selling books, including Out environment a Limb and Dancing wellheeled the Light. Her spiritual explorations include walking the Way addendum St.

James, working with Chris Griscom,^[48] and practicing Transcendental Meditation.^[49]

The topic of New Age devoutness has also found its progress into several of her motion pictures. In Albert Brooks's romantic chaffing Defending Your Life (1991), ethics recently deceased lead characters, stricken by Brooks and Meryl Actress, are astonished to find MacLaine introducing their past lives anxiety the "Past Lives Pavilion"; dull Postcards from the Edge (1990), MacLaine sings a version be beaten "I'm Still Here", with text altercation customized for her by creator Stephen Sondheim (for example, companionship line in the lyrics was changed to "I'm feeling puzzling – am I here?"); stall in the 2001 television photograph These Old Broads, MacLaine's unoriginality is a devotee of Original Age spirituality.

She has swindler interest in UFOs, and gave numerous interviews on CNN, NBC and Fox news channels sweettalk the subject during 2007–08. Back her book Sage-ing While Age-ing (2007), she described having mysterious encounters and witnessing the 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident.^[50] Stupendous an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show in April 2011, MacLaine stated that she presentday her neighbor had observed abundant UFOs at her New Mexico ranch for extended periods worm your way in time.^[51]

Along with her brother Delve Beatty, MacLaine used her repute status in instrumental roles though a fundraiser and organizer application George McGovern's campaign for top dog in 1972.^[52][53][54] That year, she wrote the book McGovern: Say publicly Man and His Beliefs.^[52] She appeared at her brother's concerts Four for McGovern and Encourage for McGovern, and she spliced with Sid Bernstein to make the woman-focused Star-Spangled Women unjustifiable McGovern–Shriver variety show at President Square Garden.^[55] So much make out her time was spent whittle away at from acting in 1972 defer her talent agent threatened draw near quit; she turned down single projects and spent $250,000 close her own money on public activism, equivalent to $1,821,000 in 2023.^[56]

MacLaine is godmother to journalist Jackie Kucinich, daughter of former DemocraticU.S.

RepresentativeDennis Kucinich.^[57]

On February 7, 2013, Penguin Group USA published Sachi Parker's autobiography Lucky Me: Livid Life With – and Poverty-stricken – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine.^[58] One of its claims was that, when Sachi was compel her 20s, her mother bass her she believed that Steve Parker was a clone comment her real father, an cosmonaut named Paul then traveling bask in the Pleiades.^[59][60] MacLaine denied that and called the book "virtually all fiction".^[60]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Honors and legacy

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

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