Shirley MacLaine

1934-

Biography: life and films

Shirley MacLaine is an American actress. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA on 24th April 1934.

Her best films as an actor include Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960), William Wyler's The Children's Hour (1961), The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975), Hal Ashby's Being There (1979) and Hugh Munro Neely's Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), and whose best work as a film director include The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975) and Bruno (2000).

Shirley MacLaine has so far appeared in 58 films, scripted 2 films and directed 2 films.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Joseph Anthony (3 films), J. Lee Thompson (2), Herbert Ross (2), Charles Walters (2) and Billy Wilder (2).

Her most frequent genres include: comedy (21 films), comedy-romance (17), comedy-drama (16), romance (14), drama (14), Documentary (6) and Western (2).

Our average rating for Shirley MacLaine over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer

Artists and Models (1955) [a]

The Trouble with Harry (1955) [a]

Hot Spell (1958) [a]

Some Came Running (1958) [a]

The Matchmaker (1958) [a]

The Sheepman (1958) [a]

Ask Any Girl (1959) [a]

Career (1959) [a]

Can-Can (1960) [a]

The Apartment (1960) [a]

All in a Night's Work (1961) [a]

The Children's Hour (1961) [a]

Two Loves (1961) [a]

My Geisha (1962) [a]

Two for the Seesaw (1962) [a]

Irma la Douce (1963) [a]

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) [a]

What a Way to Go! (1964) [a]

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) [a]

Gambit (1966) [a]

Woman Times Seven (1967) [a]

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) [a]

Sweet Charity (1969) [a]

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) [a]

Desperate Characters (1971) [a]

The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) [a]

Year of the Woman (1973) [a]

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975) [a,d,w]

The Turning Point (1977) [a]

Being There (1979) [a]

A Change of Seasons (1980) [a]

Loving Couples (1980) [a]

Sois belle et tais-toi (1981) [a]

Terms of Endearment (1983) [a]

Cannonball Run II (1984) [a]

Madame Sousatzka (1988) [a]

Steel Magnolias (1989) [a]

Postcards from the Edge (1990) [a]

Waiting for the Light (1990) [a]

Used People (1992) [a]

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) [a]

Guarding Tess (1994) [a]

The Celluloid Closet (1995) [a]

Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) [a]

The Evening Star (1996) [a]

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998) [a]

Get Bruce (1999) [a]

Kingdom Come (1999) [w]

Bruno (2000) [a,d]

Carolina (2003) [a]

Bewitched (2005) [a]

In Her Shoes (2005) [a]

Rumor Has It... (2005) [a]

Closing the Ring (2007) [a]

Valentine's Day (2010) [a]

Bernie (2011) [a]

Wild Oats (2012) [a]

Elsa & Fred (2013) [a]

Last of the Showmen (2013) [a]



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