TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

(Drama - PG)

Shirley MacLaine won for her performance as a Houston family matron.

ABOUT SHIRLEY MACLAINE (1934 - )

Shirley MacLaine was born in Richmond, Virginia. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty.

For the film SOME CAME RUNNING, [1958], MacLaine was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting performance as a tag-along girlfriend of the lead character, a recent WWII veteran, played by Frank Sinatra, who falls in love with someone else, and later encounters his MacLaine with her former lover, a Chicago mobster. 

In 1960, Shirley MacLaine played a troubled lover of a married man in Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT, with Jack Lemmon as a sympathetic not-so-innocent bystander.  The movie won Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards.  MacLaine was nominated for her poignant portrayal in the movie.

Shirley MacLaine starred in Billy Wilder's 1963 comedy, IRMA LA DOUCE, the story of a Parisian woman of the night and a soon n-to-be ex-cop, played by Jack Lemmon.  She was again nominated for an Oscar for her outstanding performance.

Shirley MacLaine co-starred with Clint Eastwood in TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA [1970], a story set in Mexico during the Juarista rebellion, of a prostitute masquerading in the Old West as a nun, the better to inspire mercenary soldier to protect her in her solitary travels.

In 1977, MacLaine played a ballet teacher stage mom of a ballerina in THE TURNING POINT, who experiences regrets at leaving her career as a dancer to raise a family.  She was again nominated for an Oscar.

The following year, in the movie BEING THERE, Shirley MacLaine played a key, not to mention ecstatic, role in the fairy tale comedy of Chance, a child-man who seems to inspire profound experiences in everyone around him. 

Finally Shirley MacLaine won her Oscar for her portrayal of Aurora, the loving but difficult mother of an equally loving but difficult daughter, a in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT in 1983.  The film swept the Oscars with Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor [Jack Nicholson as former astronaut and the mother's main squeeze].

MacLaine turned in more memorable performances in STEEL MAGNOLIAS [1989], POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE [1990] and GUARDING TESS [1984].  

In addition, Shirley MacLaine produced, wrote and directed a documentary on life in China.  She has produced 3 Emmy winning television specials,  directed another movie and written two more, including her autobiographical project, OUT ON A LIMB [1987].

MacLaine has acted in over 65 project, and continues to work in film and television, including the 2005 movie BEWITCHED in which she plays the flamboyant mother witch, Endora.


Shirley MacLaine's other credits include:

THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
ARTISTS AND MODELS
AROUND THE WORLD IN 8O DAYS
THE MATCHMAKER
ASK ANY GIRL (BFA)
CAN-CAN
OCEAN'S ELEVEN
MY GEISHA
ALL IN A NIGHT'S WORK(1961)
TWO LOVES (1961)
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR (1961)
TWO FOR THE SEESAW
WHAT A WAY TO GO
THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE
WOMAN TIMES SEVEN
SWEET CHARITY
TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA
BEING THERE
A CHANGE OF SEASONS
THE BLISS OF MRS BLOSSOM
DESPERATE CHARACTERS
THE POSSESSION OF JOE DELANEY
LOVING COUPLES
CANNONBALL RUN 2
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
USED PEOPLE
MRS. WINTERBOURNE
THE EVENING STAR
GUARDING TESS
BRUNO
SALEM WITCH TRIALS
CAROLINA
THERE
BEWITCHED
IN HER SHOES
RUMOR HAS IT.....
CLOSING THE RING
VALENTINE'S DAY

Shirley MacLaine's television credits include:

SHIRLEY'S WORLD (71 series)
OUT ON A LIMB
GYPSEY IN MY SOUL
JOAN OF ARC
THESES OLD BROADS
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS (TVMINI-SERIES)

Shirley MacLaine in THE APARTMENT

MacLaine in STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)

Shirley MacLaine in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

Shirley MacLaine in POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (1990)

MacLaine in TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (1970)

Shirley MacLaine in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)

MacLaine in THE TURNING POINT (1977)

Shirley MacLaine in BEWITCHED (2005)

Shirley MacLaine in IN HER SHOES (2005)