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 Hitchcock's "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.
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- Released
- Production
- Wombat Productions, Janson Media
Keywords
- cinema on cinema
- biography
- behind the scenes
- hollywood star
- portrait of an artist
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Top Cast
Shirley MacLaine as Self
Nicolas Cage as Self
John Forsythe as Self
Robert Harling as Self
Charlton Heston as Self
Anthony Hopkins as Self
Alan Johnson as Self
Jack Lemmon as Self
Top Crew
Suzette Winter · Director, Writer
Gene Feldman · Director, Writer
Matthew Ranson · Cinematographer, Editor
Stephen Janson · Executive Producer
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