Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Synopsis

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcocks The Trouble With Harry. It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum. It was apparent that this once perky gypsy of Broadway would leave her mark as one of the finest actresses of her day, an Academy-Award winner, who is ready and able to tackle any role that seems equal to her intelligence and talent. Her widely varied interests encompass the political, the literary and the mystical.

Main Cast

Shirley MacLaine

Self

Age : 89 | Popularity : 17%

Jack Nicholson

Self (archive footage)

Age : 87 | Popularity : 41%

Nicolas Cage

Self

Age : 60 | Popularity : 80%

Jack Lemmon

Self

Age : 76 | Popularity : 15%

Anthony Hopkins

Self

Age : 86 | Popularity : 61%

John Forsythe

Self

Age : 92 | Popularity : 7%

Robert Harling

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ira Owens Beaty

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Original Music Composer	Richard Fiocca
	Sound Mixer	Grant Maxwell
Directing	Director	Gene Feldman
Production	Producer	Gene Feldman Suzette Winter
	Executive Producer	Stephen Janson
	Associate Producer	Lisa Ann Everson
Writing	Writer	Gene Feldman Suzette Winter
Editing	Online Editor	Kerry Soloway
	Editor	Matthew Ranson
	Archival Footage Research	Tom Toth
Camera	Director of Photography	Matthew Ranson
Costume & Make-Up	Makeup Artist	Cynthia Bachman Brown
Lighting	Gaffer	James Wolfe
Department	Role	Name

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