Shirley MacLaine
Acting
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals Oklahoma! and The Pajama Game. Following minor appearances as an understudy in various other productions, MacLaine made her film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955), winning the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She rose to prominence with starring roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Two for the Seesaw (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), and Sweet Charity (1969). A six time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Her other prominent films include The Turning Point (1977), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Evening Star (1996), Bewitched (2005), In Her Shoes (2005), Valentine's Day (2010), and The Little Mermaid (2018). MacLaine has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1995, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2013 for her contribution to American culture, through performing arts. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Apart from acting, MacLaine has written numerous books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a best-selling memoir, Out on a Limb (1983).
Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent
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Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Martha Levinson (archive footage)
Bella!
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MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Actress (archive footage)
American Dreamer
Astrid Fanelli
Rat Pack
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
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Noelle
Elf Polly
Mike Wallace Is Here
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Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
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The Little Mermaid
Eloise
The Last Word
Harriet Lauler
A Heavenly Christmas
Pearl
Wild Oats
Eva
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
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Discovering Audrey Hepburn
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Men of Granite
Sophia Prather
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
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Elsa & Fred
Elsa
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Edna Mitty
Wide-Awake
The Pianist
Palme
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Bernie
Marjorie Nugent
Valentine's Day
Estelle Paddington
Vittorio D.
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Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
Amelia Thomas
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
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Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
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Inside 'The Apartment'
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Closing the Ring
Ethel Ann
Rumor Has It...
Katharine Richelieu
In Her Shoes
Ella Hirsh
Bewitched
Iris Smythson / Endora
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
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Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
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Carolina
Grandmother Mirabeau
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
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Salem Witch Trials
Rebecca Nurse
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
Mary Kay Ash
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
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Rescued from the Closet
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Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
Herself
These Old Broads
Kate Westbourne
The Unknown Peter Sellers
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Bruno
Helen
Forever Hollywood
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Get Bruce!
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Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Narrator (voice)
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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A Smile Like Yours
Martha (uncredited)
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
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The Evening Star
Aurora Greenway
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
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Mrs. Winterbourne
Grace Winterbourne
The Celluloid Closet
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The West Side Waltz
Margaret Mary Elderdice
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
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Guarding Tess
Tess Carlisle
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Helen Cooney
Used People
Pearl Berman
Defending Your Life
Shirley MacLaine
Postcards from the Edge
Doris Mann
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
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Waiting for the Light
Aunt Zena
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
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Steel Magnolias
Ouiser Boudreaux
Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
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Madame Sousatzka
Madame Yuvline Sousatzka
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
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The Shirley MacLaine Show
Herself
That's Dancing!
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That's Dancing!
Cannonball Run II
Veronica
Terms of Endearment
Aurora Greenway
Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance
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Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
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Baryshnikov in Hollywood
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I Love Liberty
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
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A Change of Seasons
Karyn Evans
Loving Couples
Evelyn
Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
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Being There
Eve Rand
The Royal Variety Performance 1977
The Turning Point
Deedee
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Circasia
Clown
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
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The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
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Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
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Year of the Woman
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The Nutcracker
Narrator (English version) (voice)
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Norah Benson
Desperate Characters
Sophie Bentwood
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Sara
Sweet Charity
Charity
From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Harriet Blossom
Woman Times Seven
Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne
Gambit
Nicole
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Jenny
The Car That Became a Star
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Mae Jenkins
What a Way to Go!
Louisa May Foster
Irma la Douce
Irma La Douce
Two for the Seesaw
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz
My Geisha
Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori
The Children's Hour
Martha Dobie
Two Loves
Anna Vorontosov
All in a Night's Work
Katie Robbins
Ocean's Eleven
Tipsy Girl (uncredited)
The Apartment
Fran Kubelik
Can-Can
Simone Pistache
Career
Sharon Kensington
Ask Any Girl
Meg Wheeler
Some Came Running
Ginnie Moorehead
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
The Matchmaker
Irene Molloy
Hot Spell
Virginia Duval
The Sheepman
Dell Payton
Around the World in 80 Days
Princess Aouda
Artists and Models
Bessie Sparrowbush
The Trouble with Harry
Jennifer Rogers