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Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty 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.
Early life
Named after Shirley Temple, Shirley MacLaine Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia to father Ira of English descent and a Canadian mother of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Her family followed the Baptist faith.
MacLaine's father moved the family from Richmond to Norfolk, Virginia and then to Arlington, Virginia while she was still a child, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Jefferson Middle School. The MacLaines 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.
Shirley 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 thereafter, 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.
Career
Her first film was the Alfred Hitchcock film The Trouble with Harry in 1955. Her film career is now in its sixth decade. MacLaine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role five times: in 1958 for Some Came Running, in 1960 for The Apartment, in 1963 for Irma la Douce, in 1977 for The Turning Point and in 1983 for Terms of Endearment (which she finally won). In 1975, she also received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. She recently appeared as the maternal grandmother to Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette in In Her Shoes.
Private life
MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker until 1982. They had a daughter, Sachi Parker (b. 1956). Shirley filed for divorce after she learned that Steve had lied to her about his childhood in Japan, and that he had transferred all her money into the bank account of his Japanese mistress over the years.
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.
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 hopes 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).
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.
Filmography
Academy Awardnomination - Best Actress
Year Title Role Other notes
1955 Artists and Models Bessie Sparrowbrush
The Trouble with Harry Jennifer Rogers
1956 Around the World in 80 Days Princess Aouda
1958 Some Came Running Ginnie Moorehead Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
The Sheepman Dell Payton
Hot Spell Virginia Duval
The Matchmaker Irene Molloy
Ask any Girl Meg Wheeler
1959 Career Sharon Kensington
1960 Ocean's 11 Tipsy girl uncredited
Can-Can Simone Pistache
The Apartment Fran Kubelik Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
1961 The Children's Hour Martha Dobie
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 Academy Award nomination - Best Actress
1964 The Yellow Rolls Royce Mae Jenkins
What a Way to Go! Louisa May Foster
1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home Jenny Erichson
1966 Gambit Nicole Chang
1967 Woman Times Seven Paulette/Maria Teresa/Linda/Edith/Eve Minou/Marie/Jeanne
1968 The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Harriet Blossom
1969 Sweet Charity Charity Hope Valentine
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
1979 Being There Eve Rand
1980 A Change of Seasons Karyn Evans
Loving Couples Evelyn
1983 Terms of Endearment Aurora Greenway Academy Award - Best Actress Oscar
1984 Cannonball Run II Veronica
1988 Madame Sousatzka Madame Yuvline Sousatzka
1989 Steel Magnolias Ouiser Boudreaux
1990 Postcards from the Edge Doris Mann
Waiting for the Light Aunt Zena
1992 Used People Pearl Berman
1993 Wrestling Ernest Hemingway Helen Cooney
1994 Guarding Tess Tess Carlisle
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
TV work
* Shirley's World (1971-1972)
* Out on a Limb (1987)
Academy Awards and nominations
* 1984 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - Terms of Endearment
* 1978 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Turning Point
* 1976 - Nominated Best Documentary, Features - The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
* 1964 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Irma la Douce
* 1961 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Apartment
* 1959 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Some Came Running
MacLaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1615 Vine Street.
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
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 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
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