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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 24, 2019 17:17:04 GMT
She's been one of my favorites for a long time now, happy birthday Shirley!   |
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Post by Archelaus on Apr 24, 2019 17:19:26 GMT
Great actress. Numerous classic films. Happy birthday to a living legend.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 24, 2019 17:51:21 GMT
Happy Birthday Ms. MacLaine.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 24, 2019 18:02:48 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 24, 2019 19:06:24 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 24, 2019 19:07:14 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 24, 2019 19:08:19 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 24, 2019 19:10:30 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 24, 2019 19:11:28 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Apr 24, 2019 23:26:40 GMT
She was gorgeous in that. Going to hell for wanting to $#%@ a nun. 
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 25, 2019 0:41:14 GMT
Happy Birthday Shirley MacLaine!!!  . Of all people to give MacLaine her first screen role: Alfred Hitchcock! And she embodied that old show-biz cliche that never happens, except when it does: stepping out of the chorus and going on for the star on just the right night to be "discovered." She never lost her affection for "the gypsies." The Liza Minnelli show The Act featured a number by the chorus that covers a costume change: So the star leaves the stage to change her clothesAnd the crowd grows restless, their anxiety showsAnd their hostile posture seems to say"When will she be back?""Who the hell are they?"But the knowledgeable gypsy knowsIt's ridiculous to throw a fitThat's the way things areWhen they pay to see a starBut...Little do they knowAnd little do they seeWithout us in supportWithout us paying courtHow lousy she might beMacLaine was backstage one night, grabbing everyone in sight - friend (Minnelli, Bella Abzug, for instance) and stranger (me and my companion, for instance) alike - by the shoulders and enthusing, "Weren't they wonderful?" And we all knew who she was talking about.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 25, 2019 2:20:42 GMT
Doghouse6 Yes, what a magical turn MacLaine's life took that night in "The Pajama Game." The stuff that dreams are made of. And thanks for sharing your wonderful personal story. I can only imagine how great that must have been. 
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 25, 2019 2:49:50 GMT
I love Shirley! She's someone who I always thought would be so fun to be friends with. Maybe there's still a chance. Happy Birthday, Ms. MacLaine. Call me!  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 25, 2019 20:28:17 GMT
Doghouse6 Yes, what a magical turn MacLaine's life took that night in "The Pajama Game." The stuff that dreams are made of. And thanks for sharing your wonderful personal story. I can only imagine how great that must have been. That show didn't have a large chorus; four boys and four girls, I think, but I learned later that evening from one of them that, before she'd come upstairs to where Minnelli, Barry Nelson and other featured players had their private dressing rooms, MacLaine had been downstairs to the "collective" ones to congratulate each one of them personally. Those were the visits she felt it important to make first, and was still bubbling with the excitement of meeting them - just like a giddy fan - when she came up to "schmooze with the stars." That number from which I quoted finishes in a way that's so apropos of what you say about "the stuff that dreams are made of" and about MacLaine herself: Yet I have a dream
That isn't mine alone
Each gypsy that you see
Is just the same as me
The fact is widely known
Someday I'll go so far
That I'll become a star
With gypsies of my own
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 26, 2019 14:30:54 GMT
That show didn't have a large chorus; four boys and four girls, I think, but I learned later that evening from one of them that, before she'd come upstairs to where Minnelli, Barry Nelson and other featured players had their private dressing rooms, MacLaine had been downstairs to the "collective" ones to congratulate each one of them personally. Those were the visits she felt it important to make first, and was still bubbling with the excitement of meeting them - just like a giddy fan - when she came up to "schmooze with the stars." Says a lot to me about how she never forgot where she came from; her roots as a background player, so to speak. I know actors like that who became stars, but they always remembered to cherish and help those on the way up. Good for her for remembering those following in her footsteps. I know it meant a lot to them.
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 26, 2019 17:21:20 GMT
Just rewatched a few weeks ago on TCM Around the World in 80 Days, the movie I don't get the hate from the cinephiles. She was very cute in the movie.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 27, 2019 0:43:11 GMT
Anna 'Kennedy' Kendrick performed for her idol Shirley MacLaine when she received the Kennedy Center Honors. Kendrick is said to be the third youngest Tony nominee ever, for 'High Society'. She had performed Stephen Sondheim's 'A Little Night Music' aged 17, 11 years before her starring role in 'Into The Woods' (2014). Now, MacLaine is joining Kendrick for the Christmas fantasy 'Noelle' (2019).
Sondheim was always Addison De Witt's favourite over on the old imdb Classics board (nostalgia). This potential Xmas treat entitled 'Noelle' is under wraps but bound to be a blockbuster. It'll be great seeing Shirley MacLaine live out another seasonal fantasy.
'Ladies Who Lunch' - Anna Kendrick - 'I'm Still Here'
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Post by petrolino on Apr 24, 2020 14:31:11 GMT
Happy Birthday Ms. MacLaine.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 24, 2020 20:15:56 GMT
Happy Birthday Shirley MacLaine! From the time you knew that Harry was dead, and made no fuzz about it, I knew I was going to follow your career throught heights and bumps.  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 24, 2020 21:20:23 GMT
Sweet Charity
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