Information about Shirley Maclaine

Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival being interviewed by Access Hollywood, photo by Tony Shek
Birth name	Shirley MacLean Beaty
Born	March 24 1934 (1934--) (age 73) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Steve Parker (1954-1982)
Awards Academy Awards Best Actress 1983 Terms of Endearment BAFTA Awards Best Actress 1960 Ask Any Girl 1961 The Apartment Emmy Awards Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music 1976 Gypsy in My Soul Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy 1961 The Apartment 1964 Irma la Douce Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1984 Terms of Endearment 1989 Madame Sousatzka Cecil B. DeMille Award 1998 Lifetime Achievement

Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs, such as solipsism, as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty.

Biography

Early life

Named after Shirley Temple, MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's Bellevue neighborhood. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty,^[1] was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; her grandparents were also teachers. The family was devoutly Baptist.^[2][3] MacLaine's father moved the family from Richmond to Norfolk, Virginia and then to Arlington, Virginia while she was still a child, then to Waverly, Virginia between 1932-1936, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Jefferson Middle School. The Beaty family lived in a house in the Western part of the county off Wilson Boulevard where it was said that Shirley and brother, Warren, were known around their neighborhood as troublemakers in their pre-adolescent days.

Her early childhood dream was to be a ballerina. She took ballet classes fervently all throughout her youth and never missed one, and whenever they performed a piece, she would play the boy's role, due to being the tallest one there. She was so determined and so set on being a dancer that her recurring childhood nightmare was that she missed the bus to class. She finally got to play a respectable woman's role, the Fairy Godmother in "Cinderella," and while warming up backstage, she snapped her ankle. Many would bow out in this particular situation, but she was so determined that she simply tied the ankle ribbon on her toe shoes extra tight and go "on with the show." After it was over, she called for an ambulance.

Eventually, MacLaine decided that professional ballet wasn't for her. She said that she didn't really have the right body type and that she did not want to starve herself. Also, her feet weren't good enough (she didn't have really high arches and insteps). Nor was she an "exquisite beauty." At that point, she decided to switch her focus to acting. She attended Washington-Lee High School and was on the cheerleading squad and acted in school productions. The summer before her senior year, she went to New York to try acting on Broadway with some success. After she graduated, she went back and within a year she achieved her goal of becoming a star when she became an understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game; Haney broke her ankle, and MacLaine replaced her.

A few months after, with Haney still out of commission, director-producer Hal B. Wallis was in the audience, took note of MacLaine, and signed her to go to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures. She would later sue Wallis over a contractual dispute, a suit that is credited with having ended the old-style studio system of actor management.^[4]

Career

Her first film was the Alfred Hitchcock film The Trouble with Harry in 1955. In 1958, she took part in Hot Spell and Around the World in Eighty Days. At the same time, she stared in Some Came Running, this film gave her her first Academy Award nomination. She got her second nomination in two years later for The Apartment, one of her most famous films starring alongside Jack Lemmon and directed by Billy Wilder. This film won 5 Oscars, including Best Director. She was again nominated for Irma la Douce, once again reunited with Wilder and Lemmon. In 1975, she also received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her documentary film . Two years later, she was once again nominated for The Turning Point, as was her co-star Anne Bancroft. In 1983, she finally won her first Oscar for Terms of Endearment. The film won 5 Oscars, including one for Jack Nicholson and three for director James L. Brooks. After she won an Oscar, she still starred in some major films, like Steel Magnolias with Julia Roberts. She made her feature film directorial debut in the quirky film Bruno written by then new-comer David Ciminello in his Diseny-Meets-David Lynch style. Shirley also starred as Helen in the film that was released to video under the title Dress Code. She completed Closing the Ring, directed by Richard Attenborough and staring Christopher Plummer, it will be released in 2007.

Maclaine is also set to star in Poor Things, a drama. The production has been delayed due to Lindsay Lohan's stint in rehab.

As of 2004, she is the only actress to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama) without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance, for Madame Sousatzka (1988).

MacLaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1615 Vine Street.

Personal life

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker until they divorced in 1982. They had a daughter, Sachi Parker (b. 1956).

In political circles, MacLaine is known for her former relationship with Andrew Peacock, a former Australian Liberal Party Prime Ministerial aspirant who was later appointed as Ambassador to the United States. She also has a close friendship with Ohio congressman, Dennis Kucinich, who was a candidate in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary. Kucinich is reported to have spent a few months living in MacLaine's home.

MacLaine's interest in spirituality is very strong and long-lived. Many of her best-selling books, such as Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light have it as their central theme. Her beliefs have compelled her to explore herself and the world. This includes walking El Camino de Santiago and working with Chris Griscom.

MacLaine found her way into many law school casebooks when she sued Twentieth Century-Fox for breach of contract. She was to play a role in a film titled, Bloomer Girl, but the production was cancelled.

Twentieth Century-Fox offered her a role in another film, Big Country, Big Man, in hope of getting out of its contractual obligation to pay her for the cancelled film. MacLaine's refusal led to an appeal by Twentieth Century-Fox to the Supreme Court of California in 1970, where the Court ruled against them. Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 474 P.2d 689 (Cal. 1970).

She now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

References in popular culture

In the episode Pardon My Past of the WB series Charmed, Phoebe says the following to Prue, Piper and Leo: "Where's Shirley MacLaine when you need her?" as they're looking for a spell in the Book of Shadows about how to go back to a past life.

She was often referred to by the character Dot in the cartoon series Animaniacs.

The Tiny Toons Adventures character Shirley The Loon is named for her.

A line in Randy Stonehill's song "Great Big Stupid World" is "(We're) channeling Houdini with Shirley MacLaine".

Former President George H. W. Bush concluded his commencement address to the University of New Hampshire's class of 2007, "Unless you're Shirley MacLaine, you only get one shot at this life," before later adding, "Be bold in your caring, be bold in your dreaming and above all else, always do your best."

In the comic The Far Side, one of the cartoons featured a lizard telling another one, "There it is again... some nagging feeling that in a past life I was someone named Shirley MacLaine."

On the album 'Bebop Moptop' by Scottish band Danny Wilson (band), there is a song called 'The Ballad Of Me And Shirley Maclaine'.

In a scene from Mrs. Doubtfire, when Daniel (Robin Williams) tells his brother (Harvey Firestein) that they need to go older when transforming him into a woman, his brother asks "Shelly Winters older or Shirley Maclaine older?" Daniel asks what the differnce is and his brother says, "Some scotch tape and red hair dye."

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	Artists and Models	Bessie Sparrowbrush
	The Trouble with Harry	Jennifer Rogers	BAFTA nomination: Best Actress
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	Princess Aouda
1958	Some Came Running	Ginnie Moorehead	Academy Award nomination: Best Actress Golden Globe nomination: Best Drama Actress
	The Sheepman	Dell Payton
	Hot Spell	Virginia Duval
	The Matchmaker	Irene Molloy
	Ask any Girl	Meg Wheeler	Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1959	Career	Sharon Kensington
1960	Ocean's 11	Tipsy girl	uncredited
	Can-Can	Simone Pistache
	The Apartment	Fran Kubelik	Academy Award nomination: Best Actress BAFTA win: Best Actress Golden Globe win: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1961	The Children's Hour	Martha Dobie	Golden Globe nomination: Best Drama Actress
	All in a Night's Work	Katie Robbins
	Two Loves	Anna Vorontosov
1962	Two for the Seesaw	Gittel Mosca
	My Geisha	Lucy Dell/Yoko Mori
1963	Irma la Douce	Irma la Douce	Acedemy Award nomination: Best Actress BAFTA nomination: Best Actress Golden Globe win: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1964	The Yellow Rolls Royce	Mae Jenkins
	What a Way to Go!	Louisa May Foster	BAFTA nomination: Best Actress
1965	John Goldfarb, Please Come Home	Jenny Erichson
1966	Gambit	Nicole Chang	Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1967	Woman Times Seven	Paulette/Maria Teresa/Linda/Edith/Eve Minou/Marie/Jeanne	Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1968	The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom	Harriet Blossom
1969	Sweet Charity	Charity Hope Valentine	Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1970	Two Mules for Sister Sara	Sara
1971	Desperate Characters	Sophie Bentwood
1972	The Possession of Joel Delaney	Norah Benson
1977	The Turning Point	Deedee Rodgers	Academy Award nomination: Best Actress
1979	Being There	Eve Rand	BAFTA nomination: Best Actress Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1980	A Change of Seasons	Karyn Evans
	Loving Couples	Evelyn
1983	Terms of Endearment	Aurora Greenway	Academy Award win: Best Actress BAFTA nomination: Best Actress Golden Globe win: Best Drama Actress
1984	Cannonball Run II	Veronica
1987	Out on a Limb	Herself
1988	Madame Sousatzka	Madame Yuvline Sousatzka	Golden Globe win: Best Drama Actress
1989	Steel Magnolias	Ouiser Boudreaux	BAFTA nomination: Best Supporting Actress
1990	Postcards from the Edge	Doris Mann	BAFTA nomination: Best Actress Golden Globe nomination: Best Supporting Actress
	Waiting for the Light	Aunt Zena
1992	Used People	Pearl Berman	Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1993	Wrestling Ernest Hemingway	Helen Cooney
1994	Guarding Tess	Tess Carlisle	Golden Globe nomination: Best Musical/Comedy Actress
1995	The West Side Waltz	Margaret Mary Elderdice
1996	The Evening Star	Aurora Greenway
	Mrs. Winterbourne	Grace Winterbourne
1997	A Smile Like Yours	Martha	uncredited
1999	Joan of Arc	Madame de Beaurevoir
2000	Bruno	Helen
2001	These Old Broads	Kate Westbourne
2002	Salem Witch Trials	Rebecca Nurse
	Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay	Mary Kay
2003	Carolina	Grandma Millicent Mirabeau
2005	Rumor Has It	Katharine Richelieu
	Bewitched	Iris Smythson/Endora
	In Her Shoes	Ella Hirsch	Golden Globe nomination: Best Supporting Actress
2007	Closing the Ring	Ethel Ann

TV work

• Shirley's World (1971-1972)
• Out on a Limb (1987)

Bibliography

• "Don't Fall Off the Mountain" (1970)
• McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs (1972)
• You Can Get There from Here (1975)
• Out on a Limb (1983)
• Dancing in the Light (1986)
• It's All in the Playing (1988)
• Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation (1989)
• Dance While You Can (1991)
• My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir (1995)
• The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit (2000)
• Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love (2003)
• Sage-ing While Age-ing (2007)

Awards

Preceded by John Huston, David Niven, Burt Reynolds, and Diana Ross 46th Academy Awards	Oscars host 47th Academy Awards (with Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, and Frank Sinatra)	Succeeded by Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal, and Robert Shaw 48th Academy Awards

Awards
Preceded by Simone Signoret for Room at the Top	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1959 for Ask Any Girl for The Apartment	Succeeded by Sophia Loren for Two Women
Preceded by Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1960 for The Apartment	Succeeded by Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One
Preceded by Rosalind Russell for Gypsy	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1963 for Irma la Douce	Succeeded by Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins
Preceded by Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice	Academy Award for Best Actress 1983 for Terms of Endearment	Succeeded by Sally Field for Places in the Heart
Preceded by Meryl Streep for ''Sophie's Choice	NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1983 for Terms of Endearment	Succeeded by Peggy Ashcroft for A Passage to India
Preceded by Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1984 for Terms of Endearment	Succeeded by Sally Field for Places in the Heart
Preceded by Sally Kirkland for Anna	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1989 for Madame Sousatzka	Succeeded by Michelle Pfeiffer for The Fabulous Baker Boys
Preceded by Dustin Hoffman	Cecil B. DeMille Award 1998	Succeeded by Jack Nicholson

References

External links

• Shirley's Official Website
• Shirley MacLaine at the Internet Movie Database
• Shirley MacLaine at Yahoo! Movies
• Shirley MacLaine interviewed by Ginny Dougary (2005)

Persondata
NAME	MacLaine, Shirley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beaty, Shirley MacLean
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH