Shirley MacLaine's Trivia: Her trademark theme song, taken from the movie, SWEET CHARITY (1969), is If My Friends Could See Me Now. It is usually the music that accompanies her when she makes entrances on talk shows.
Shirley MacLaine's Quotation: Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.“
Shirley MacLaine's Award: Palm Springs International Film Festival: Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
Steve Parker (businessman; born on February 6, 1922; married on September 17, 1954; divorced in 1982; died on May 13, 2001)
Father:
Ira Owens Beaty (was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent; died in 1987)
Mother:
Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean; was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; died in 1994)
Brother:
Henry Warren Beaty (aka. Warren Beatty, actor; born on March 30, 1937)
Sister in law:
Annette Bening (actress; born on May 29, 1958)
Daughter:
Sachiko Parker (actress; born on September 1, 1956)
Niece:
Ella Corinne Beatty (born on April 8, 2000), Isabel Ira Ashley Beatty (born on January 11, 1997), Kathlyn Elizabeth Bening Beatty (born on January 8, 1992)
Claim to fame:
her best-selling books, such as 'Out on a Limb' and 'Dancing in the Light'
Her trademark theme song, taken from the movie, SWEET CHARITY (1969), is If My Friends Could See Me Now. It is usually the music that accompanies her when she makes entrances on talk shows.
A frequent visitor to Houston, Texas, where she starred in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) and THE EVENING STAR (1996). At each visit, she goes to Tony's Restaurant, where she orders a complete soufflé just for herself.
About 1975, while starring in a special musical show that played at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk, VA, she walked out on the show because of the poor acoustics and sound system. Chrysler Hall was well known for this problem at the time, and Miss MacLaine was not the only performer to complain about it. Years later, the theatre closed for a while and underwent extensive renovations to improve the acoustics, thanks in part to the star's vigorously vocal objections.
As of 2004, she is the only actress to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama) without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance (for MADAME SOUSATZKA (1988)).
Attended the same high school as Sandra Bullock. Both were also cheerleaders at the school.
Close friends with actress Julie Christie, who lived with Shirley's brother Warren Beatty for over a decade.
Columbia originally wanted to cast her as Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL (1968). However, producer Ray Stark--who produced the Broadway show and was Brice's son-in-law--insisted on Barbra Streisand repeating her Broadway role.
Dropped out of the THE BLUE BIRD (1976) before shooting began.
Father was a professor, then a real estate agent. Mother was a teacher.
Her childhood dinner for many years consisted of tabasco and saltine crackers (which often resulted in bad dreams--her missing the bus to ballet class).
Her father was Ira O. Beatty, an orchestra conductor. Her mother was Kathlyn MacLean, a dancer.
Her performance as Aurora Greenway in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) is ranked #81 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Is a horse lover.
Led a series of weekend-long higher-self seminars in the late 1980s teaching people about her views on many aspects of New Age practices and techniques.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967.
