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Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine - what members say


  • Postcards From The Edge
  • Postcards From The Edge review by from Scotland
    Rated - 5 stars She was so good in 31 July 2004
    ...hing films I've ever seen. Based on Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographcal novel, Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep turn in fantastic performances as mother and daughter at war. ...  
  • Terms Of Endearment
  • Terms Of Endearment review by from East Sussex
    Rated - 4 stars Ahhhh! 1 March 2006
    ...he one for a Sunday afternoon in front of the fire, with a big box of tissues. Shirley MacLaine was particularly impressive, and grew in her character....  
  • The Apartment
  • The Apartment review by from LONDON
    Rated - 5 stars 29 December 2003
    ...incidences and misunderstandings. Jack Lemmon is funny and moving by turns, and Shirley MacLaine is tender and tough, a girl you can truly imagine throwing everything away for....  

Shirley MacLaine - filmography


  • Bewitched on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Will Ferrell,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) breathes new life into the classic television show BEWITCHED in this romantic comedy of the same name. Movie star Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) had it all until he made a few bad films and his wife left him. Now, the washed up star is slated ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 40,790 members
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  • Carolina (2003)
    Starring: Julia Stiles,  Shirley MacLaine,  Alessandro Nivola
    Director: Marleen Gorris
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In this romantic comedy, Carolina (Julia Stiles) loves her crazy family, but wants a more normal life. She sets off from the South to move to California, where she hopes for peace and calm, but things soon become chaotic again when two attractive suitors fight for her affections.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 18 members
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  • The Dress Code (2000)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Gary Sinise
    Director: Shirley MacLaine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bruno is the story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno (Alex D. Linz), whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey. By the time he reaches his final destination, Bruno's story becomes a fable of the importance of each person's uniqueness and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 20% from 4 members
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  • The Evening Star (1996)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Bill Paxton,  Juliette Lewis
    Director: Robert Harling
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The indomitable Aurora Greenway's struggles with her family and her love life continue in this long-awaited sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. In her own inimitable style, she continues to struggle with her family, neigbors, and her decidedly unconventional love life.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 16 members
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  • Postcards From The Edge on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Dennis Quaid,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An actress with a drug and alcohol problem, recovering from a near fatal overdose, accepts a minor role in a film on the condition that she lives with a responsible person during her rehabilitation. That 'person' is her mother, a big star from the 50's who sees herself in her daughter. Both must ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,105 member
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  • Steel Magnolias on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Sally Field,  Dolly Parton
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a true incident of screenwriter Harling's mother and sister. The story is set in a small-town beauty shop near New Orleans, and spans several years in the lives of the shop's owner and her customers.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,117 members
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  • Being There on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Shirley MacLaine,  Jack Warden
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,472 members
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  • Two Mules For Sister Sara on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Shirley MacLaine,  John Kelly
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starring Clint Eastwood as mercenary gunfighter Hogan, TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA opens with its star saving a naked women from being gang-raped. He's more than a little surprised when the attractive woman, Sister Sara (Shirley McLaine), dons a habit. It seems she's deeply committed to a group of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,099 members
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  • Gambit (1966)
    Starring: Herbert Lom,  Roger C. Carmel,  Arnold Moss
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Caine, a bumbling but debonair English cat burglar, and MacLaine, a beautiful Eurasian dancer, team up steal a priceless statue--that bears an uncanny resemblance to MacLaine-- from the impregnable mansion of a billionaire recluse. Caine's Hollywood debut.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 43 members
    Due for release on 30th November 2009
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  • Irma La Douce on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  Shirley MacLaine,  Lou Jacobi
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Billy Wilder's adaptation of Alexandre Breffort's stage farce stars Shirley MacLaine as the Parisian prostitute of the title. When Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) a naive, uncharacteristically honest young gendarme decides to raid Chez Moustache, the bistro which provides a base of operations for many ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 937 members
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  • My Geisha on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Yves Montand,  Edward G. Robinson,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Jack Cardiff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Renowned director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand) doesn't want his actress-wife Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine) to star in his latest picture, an adaptation of Madame Butterfly. With the help of producer Sam Lewis (Edward G. Robinson), Lucy devises a scheme to convince her husband that she's right for the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 63 members
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  • The Matchmaker on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Shirley Booth,  Anthony Perkins,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Joseph Anthony
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Endearing romantic comedy farce based on the Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, which was later more famously adapted into the 1964 musical 'Hello Dolly'. Shirley Booth stars as Dolly Levi, a 19th-century matchmaker who harbours a secret desire to get married herself. Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 10 members
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  • The Trouble With Harry on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  John Forsythe,  Edmund Gwenn
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This black comedy from Alfred Hitchcock was based on Jack Turner's novel. When a retired sea captain, out doing a little rabbit hunting, discovers Harry's lifeless body in the hilltops of small-town Vermont, he erroneously believes that he is responsible for Harry's untimely demise. So he decides ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,206 member
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Shirley MacLaine - watch online


  • Joan of Arc - Part 1 to Watch Now (1999)
    Starring: Leelee Sobieski,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Powers Boothe
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 92 minutes
    Once there lived a legend whose coming had been foretold by the great prophet Merlin. It was said that after nearly a century of war, a maiden would unite her divided people. It did not say how... This star-studded epic mini-series tells the triumphant yet tragic true story of one of history's ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 4 members
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  • Joan of Arc - Part 2 to Watch Now (1999)
    Starring: Leelee Sobieski,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Powers Boothe
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 92 minutes
    Once there lived a legend whose coming had been foretold by the great prophet Merlin. It was said that after nearly a century of war, a maiden would unite her divided people. It did not say how... This star-studded epic mini-series tells the triumphant yet tragic true story of one of history's ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 93% from 3 members
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  • Possession Of Joel Delaney to Watch Now (1971)
    Starring: Barbara Trentham,  David Elliott,  Lisa Kohane
    Director: Waris Hussein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 95 minutes
    A woman is deeply troubled by the sudden, strange behavior of her younger brother Joel. When she discovers that he has been experimenting in the bizarre world of black magic and witchcraft, she is thrown into a chain of incredible events that reach a chilling climax packed with edge-of-the-seat ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
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  • Desperate Characters to Watch Now (1971)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Kenneth Mars,  Sada Thompson
    Director: Frank D. Gilroy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 87 minutes
    With wit and real wisdom, Desperate Characters brilliantly examines the life of two disillusioned New Yorkers as they struggle to come to grips with the "normal" life with which they can no longer cope.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2 members
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Shirley MacLaine facts

5 most recent films

Closing The Ring - 3.0 stars
In Her Shoes - 3.0 stars
Rumour Has It - 3.0 stars
Bewitched - 2.5 stars
Carolina - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Apartment - 3.5 stars
Being There - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
Two Mules For Sister Sara - 3.5 stars
Steel Magnolias - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story - 3 stars
The Dress Code - 2.0 stars
Shirley's World - The Complete Series - 2.0 stars
The Matchmaker - 2.0 stars
Madame Sousatzka - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mark Ruffalo - 3 times - show films
Olympia Dukakis - 3 times - show films
Kevin Costner - 3 times - show films
Richard Jenkins - 3 times - show films
Jennifer Aniston - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rob Reiner - 3 times - show films
Christian Duguay - 2 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 2 times - show films
Joseph Anthony - 2 times - show films
Herbert Ross - 2 times - show films