Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine, 1987

Shirley MacLaine (* 24. April 1934 as Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond , Virginia ) is an American actress , dancer and esoteric bestselling author . She has received numerous awards over the course of her more than 60-year film career; for example, she received the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984 for Time of Tenderness .

life and career

She is the daughter of musician Ira Beaty and acting teacher and former actress Kathlyn MacLean and the older sister of actor Warren Beatty . She took ballet lessons at the Washington School of Ballet at the age of three and performed in front of an audience at the age of four. She attended Washington-Lee High School in Arlington , where she was among other things cheerleader for a baseball team . After graduating from high school, she moved to New York in 1952 to work as an actress and dancer on Broadway . She changed her maiden name MacLean Beaty to MacLaine.

At the beginning of her career there were odd jobs, for example as a model and smaller roles. Her first major role on Broadway was in 1954 in the musical The Pajama Game as an understudy and later replacement for the then better-known actress and dancer Carol Haney . She was discovered by the director and producer Hal B. Wallis , who provided her with a five-year contract for the production company Paramount . On September 17, 1954, she married producer Steve Parker. Their daughter Stephanie Sachiko (Sachi) was born on September 1, 1956 . The marriage was divorced in 1982.

Shirley MacLaine made her film debut in 1955 in the comedy Immer Ärger mit Harry (The Trouble with Harry) directed by Alfred Hitchcock , for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Young Actress that same year . Other film roles followed, initially mainly in comedies, such as Der Agentenschreck (Artists and Models) . She had her best-known and most important film roles in the late 1950s and in the first half of the 1960s. She was made famous by films like Some Came Running (Some Came Running), Das Appartement , Das Mädchen Irma la Douce and Infam (The Children's Hour) . MacLaine, on the other hand, not only gave these films a face, but embodied and shaped a modern, but at the same time vulnerable and self-confident image of women with appearance and charisma, behavior and style, which stood out from the sexualized image of Hollywood of the 1950s. She was all nominated for an Oscar for Damned, Das Appartement and Irma la Douce . She, Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland are considered the only female members of the Rat Pack around Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin .

In the 1970s and 1980s she published her first books and made a film of her own: The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir , a documentary about the People's Republic of China , which she made with the filmmaker Claudia Weill . In 1975 she was nominated for an Oscar for this. After their performance in 1977 At the turning point had received a nomination as an actress again, she won in 1983 for the film Terms of Endearment (Terms of Endearment) , in which it alongside Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson played in the fifth attempt to Oscar for best leading actress .

Shirley MacLaine, 2005

After five years of abstinence, she returned to the big screen in 1988 with the film Madame Sousatzka . In 1989 she starred in the film drama Magnolias Made of Steel - The Strength of Women alongside Sally Field , Dolly Parton , Olympia Dukakis , Daryl Hannah and Julia Roberts . The film ran outside of the competition at the Berlinale in 1990 . In 2005, the now 71-year-old MacLaine was seen in a remake of the television series In Love with a Witch . In the same year she took on a role in the film Where Love Falls ... (Rumor Has It ...), in which a young woman ( Jennifer Aniston ) realizes that her family provided the model for the film The Graduation Examination . MacLaine played the woman who is having an affair with the boy next door, so she was the model for the character of Mrs. Robinson .

For her role in the film In Her Shoes (In Her Shoes) with Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette , she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2006 Golden Globes. Another Golden Globe, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination earned her in 2009 the portrayal of the aged Coco Chanel in Christian Duguay 's television film of the same name. MacLaine is characterized by great versatility in her roles. She played prostitutes and dancers as well as simple workers, teachers or a nun. Their spectrum ranges from very tragic to very comical roles. Her German dubbing voice spoke in most of the films Renate Danz , in 2003 Judy Winter took over this task .

MacLaine is politically left-wing liberal . She campaigned against the Vietnam War and supported several Democratic politicians , including Robert F. Kennedy .

Best-selling esoteric author

Shirley MacLaine has also been successful since the 1980s as the author of books , some of which are autobiographical , in which she conveys her spiritual and esoteric worldview, her alleged experiences from previous lives and her alleged contacts with extraterrestrials. At readings, she also reports on UFOs and spreads conspiracy theories . In addition, she is committed to the Ramtha cult of JZ Knight .

Filmography (selection)

Books

  • Don't fall off the mountain. The Bodley Head, London, Sydney and Toronto, 1970
  • Dance in the light. Goldmann , Munich 1985
  • Between lives. Goldmann, Munich 1985
  • Out on a limb. Bantam books, London, 1986
  • You Can Get There from Here. Bantam Books, New York, 1986
    • German by Elke vom Scheidt: step by step. Goldmann TB 8807, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-442-08807-0
  • Caterpillar with butterfly wings. An autobiography. Goldmann, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-442-08949-2
  • Magic game. Goldmann Verlag Munich 1987
  • It's all in the playing. Bantam Books 1988
  • The journey inside. My way to spiritual awareness. Goldmann, Munich 1989 ISBN 3-442-30546-2
  • Going Within. A Guide for Inner Transformation. 1990
  • Dance While You Can. Bantam Books, New York a. a., 1991
  • My Lucky Stars - A Hollywood Memoir. Bantam Books, New York 1995
  • The Camino - A Journey of the Spirit. Atria 2001, ISBN 0-7434-0073-9
  • Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love. Atria 2004, ISBN 978-0-7434-8616-3
    • English: An immortal love: How my dog ​​taught me to see with the heart. Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-442-45762-5
  • Sage-ing While Age-ing. Simon and Schuster, 2007
    • German by Nina Arrowsmith: Wiser, not quieter! The Path to New Human Being (with Nina Arrowsmith). Ullstein, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-548-74477-3
  • I'm Over All That and Other Confessions. Atria, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4516-0729-1
    • German by Marion Reuter: I'm through with that and more confessions. Börsenmedien, Kulmbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-942888-80-6

reception

The German comedian Hape Kerkeling went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 2001, influenced by reading MacLaine's book Der Jakobsweg: a spiritual journey . The book and a hiking guide were his only readings on the pilgrimage. He reported about it in his 2006 travelogue and later bestseller I'm Away - My Journey on the Way of St. James .

Awards

Academy Awards

American Comedy Awards

  • 1993 awarded for his comedic life's work

British Academy Film Awards

Emmy Awards

  • 1975 nominated for the "Outstanding Special - Comedy Variety or Music" for Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
  • 1976 awarded for the "Outstanding Special - Comedy Variety or Music" for Gypsy in My Soul
  • 1977 nominated for the “Outstanding Special - Comedy Variety Show or Music” for The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
  • 1979 nominated for “Outstanding Comedy Variety or Music Show” for Shirley MacLaine at the Lido
  • 1980 nominated for the "Outstanding Variety Show or Music Show" for Shirley MacLaine ... "Every Little Moment"
  • 2009 nominated for "Best Actress" in a TV movie or miniseries for Coco Chanel

Golden Globe Awards

  • 1955 awarded as "Most Promising Young Actress"
  • 1959 nominated for " Best Actress - Drama " in Damn They Are All
  • 1959 honored with a special award as "most versatile actress"
  • 1960 nominated as " Best Actress - Comedy or Musical " in Immer die Verflixten Frauen
  • 1961 awarded as "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Das Appartement
  • 1962 nominated as "Best Actress - Drama" in Infam
  • 1964 awarded as "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in The Girl Irma la Douce
  • 1967 nominated as "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Das Mädchen aus der Cherry-Bar
  • 1968 nominated as "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Siebenmal lures the woman
  • 1970 nominated for "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Sweet Charity
  • 1980 nominated for "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Welcome, Mr. Chance
  • In 1984 awarded as “Best Actress - Drama” in Time of Tenderness
  • 1988 nominated for “Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie” in Out on a Limb
  • 1989 awarded as "Best Actress - Drama" in Madame Sousatzka
  • 1991 nominated for " Best Supporting Actress " in Greetings from Hollywood
  • 1993 nominated for "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Die Herbstzeitlosen
  • 1995 nominated as "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in Tess and her Bodyguard
  • 1998 honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for "Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Entertainment"
  • 2003 nominated for "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
  • 2006 nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" in In My Sister's Shoes
  • 2009 nominated for "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in Coco Chanel

Berlin International Film Festival

  • 1959 honored with the Silver Bear for "Best Actress" in Always the darned women
  • 1971 awarded the Silver Bear for "Best Actress" in Desperate People
  • 1999 awarded with the honorary award of the Golden Bear

She is the only woman who has won the award twice in the “Best Actress” category.

Chicago International Film Festival

  • 2005 honored with the Career Achievement Award

Venice International Film Festival

  • 1960 awarded as "Best Actress" in Das Appartement
  • 1989 awarded as "Best Actress" in Madame Sousatzka

New York Film Critics Circle Award

  • 1960 awarded as "Best Lead Actress" in Das Appartement
  • 1983 honored as "Best Actress" in Time of Tenderness
  • 1989 awarded as “Best Actress” in Madame Sousatzka

Further awards

Web links

Commons : Shirley MacLaine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com.
  2. ↑ World star: Oscar winner presented esoteric theses in the Laeiszhalle Shirley MacLaine and the extraterrestrials The actress described what living things look like on other planets and offered conspiracy theories. September 15, 2008 By Ulrich Gaßdorf and Ulrike Cordes
  3. ↑ World star Shirley MacLaine at the book premiere in Kreuzberg Atlantis, Aliens and Alternative Medicine By Christian Spiller Berliner Zeitung September 17, 2008
  4. ↑ Shirley MacLaine and the extraterrestrials on Abendblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME MacLaine, Shirley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacLean Beatty, Shirley (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress, dancer, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Virginia , United States