A screen legend for over 70 years, Shirley MacLaine boasts a diverse career across Broadway, film, and television. With six Academy Award nominations and a Best Actress win for Terms of Endearment, she continues adding to her impressive filmography.
Born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia in 1934, she started her career as a dancer replacing Carol Haney in the Broadway production of The Pajama Game in 1954. She made her acting debut alongside John Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955), followed by roles in Artists and Models (1955) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Her standout performance in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960), starring alongside Jack Lemmon, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress with Billy Wilder winning in the Best Picture and Director category.
She would go on to star in classics including All in a Night’s Work (1961), My Geisha (1962), Irma La Douce (1962), and Sweet Charity...
Born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia in 1934, she started her career as a dancer replacing Carol Haney in the Broadway production of The Pajama Game in 1954. She made her acting debut alongside John Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955), followed by roles in Artists and Models (1955) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Her standout performance in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960), starring alongside Jack Lemmon, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress with Billy Wilder winning in the Best Picture and Director category.
She would go on to star in classics including All in a Night’s Work (1961), My Geisha (1962), Irma La Douce (1962), and Sweet Charity...
- 4/24/2024
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
Every year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces its Golden Globe nominations, and every year we wonder why this rococo freakshow matters. In years past, clunkers like The Tourist and Burlesque have been nominated for Best Picture, and to the HFPA's credit, neither of those ridiculous movies ended up winning Best Picture. Unfortunately, the five I've listed below either won Best Comedy/Musical or Best Drama, and you'll likely agree that these embarrassments remain stinky all these years later.
Here they are, the five worst movies to win the biggest Golden Globe of the night.
5. Evita
I'm obviously an elite-level Madonna fan, but I'm also the first to admit that Evita is un-special. Madonna's performance is serviceable and Antonio Banderas' is a bit better, but to me Andrew Lloyd Webber's rather muted spectacle is the least interesting thing about Madonna in the '90s. And yes, I remember "Nothing Really Matters.
Here they are, the five worst movies to win the biggest Golden Globe of the night.
5. Evita
I'm obviously an elite-level Madonna fan, but I'm also the first to admit that Evita is un-special. Madonna's performance is serviceable and Antonio Banderas' is a bit better, but to me Andrew Lloyd Webber's rather muted spectacle is the least interesting thing about Madonna in the '90s. And yes, I remember "Nothing Really Matters.
- 12/14/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Blu-ray 3D Release Date: Oct. 9, 2012
Price: Blu-ray 3D $35.99
Studio: Warner
Anthony Dawson makes his move against Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder.
Alfred Hitchcock’s (Psycho) classic 1954 suspense thriller film Dial M for Murder was one of the first films that helped Warner Bros. introduce 3D in U.S. theatres in the early 1950s.
That said, audiences will now be able to see the film in their homes as it was originally meant to be seen in theaters nearly 60 years ago.
Starring Grace Kelly (To Catch a Thief), Robert Cummings (My Geisha) and Ray Milland (The Thing with Two Heads), the film focuses a love affair between American writer Mark Halliday (Cummings) the married Margo Wendice Wendice (Kelly) in London. After sensing Margot’s affections for Halliday, her husband, Tony Wendice (Milland), fearing divorce and disinheritance, plots his wife’s death. Tony blackmails his nefarioius former school chum Captain...
Price: Blu-ray 3D $35.99
Studio: Warner
Anthony Dawson makes his move against Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder.
Alfred Hitchcock’s (Psycho) classic 1954 suspense thriller film Dial M for Murder was one of the first films that helped Warner Bros. introduce 3D in U.S. theatres in the early 1950s.
That said, audiences will now be able to see the film in their homes as it was originally meant to be seen in theaters nearly 60 years ago.
Starring Grace Kelly (To Catch a Thief), Robert Cummings (My Geisha) and Ray Milland (The Thing with Two Heads), the film focuses a love affair between American writer Mark Halliday (Cummings) the married Margo Wendice Wendice (Kelly) in London. After sensing Margot’s affections for Halliday, her husband, Tony Wendice (Milland), fearing divorce and disinheritance, plots his wife’s death. Tony blackmails his nefarioius former school chum Captain...
- 6/22/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
From Fred and Ginger to Jennifer and Ashton, romantic comedies used to be one of the safest bets in Hollywood. But it seems that rom is just not into com any more
Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."
After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.
They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl,...
Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."
After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.
They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl,...
- 2/11/2012
- by Steve Rose, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
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