Shirley Maclaine
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine
- The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
- Artists and Models (1955)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley Maclaine…
- Bubbly, brain–addled comedy with comic–artist Dean Martin getting his ideas from roommate Jerry Lewis’ wild nocturnal mutterings. Rated…
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley Maclaine
- Lively spectacle in which David Niven attempts to perform the title feat, while no less than 44 other stars make cameo appearances. Garnered four…
- Some Came Running (1958)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Maclaine…
- Frank Sinatra gives an affecting, lowkey performance as soldier returning from WW2 to pick up his writing career again.
Effective representation…
- Matchmaker, The (1958)
- Dir. Joseph Anthony
Feat. Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley Maclaine…
- Farcical adaptation of the Broadway play about a meddling madam who prides herself on playing cupid to the young folk around town until one day…
- Sheepman, The (Stranger with a Gun) (1958)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Leslie Nielsen…
- Lighthearted western with Glenn Ford as a hard–bitten sheep farmer duking it out with cattle baron Nielsen and Shirley Maclaine as the object…
- Apartment, The (1960)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine
- Neurotic insurance clerk Jack Lemmon wheedles his way up the corporate ladder by loaning his apartment keys to philandering executives, unknowing…
- Ocean's Eleven (Ocean's 11) (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Jr. Davis, Peter Lawford…
- The definitive 'Rat Pack' movie, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among the eleven confederates who…
- Can-Can (1960)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Shirley Maclaine, Maurice Chevalier…
- Agreeable Cole Porter musical by way of Old Blue Eyes' Rat Pack croon. Sinatra teams up with Shirley Maclaine, here the proprietor of Parisian cafe…
- Children's Hour, The (1961)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Maclaine, James Garner…
- Good performances from the two leads as lesbian school–teachers who are involved in smalltown scandal when a trouble–making student…
- Two For The Seesaw (1962)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shirley Maclaine, Edmon Ryan…
- 'Odd couple' comedy set in NYC, where a Nebraskan lawyer (Mitchum) moves to start life anew and hits the romantic playground in the company of kooky…
- Irma La Douce (1963)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Tura Satana
- On patrol in the red–light district of Paris, gendarme Jack Lemmon pines after whore–with–a–heart–of–gold Shirley…
- What a Way to Go! (1964)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum…
- Stacked, big–budget comedy has fun at the expense of a cursed Shirley MacLaine: she plays a wealthy widow whose $200 million fortune has been…
- Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Omar Sharif…
- Star–studded omnibus following three consecutive owners of a cute Rolls Royce Pantom II. An English aristocrat, a Chicago gangster and a…
- Gambit (1966)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine
- Charming, clever heist flick about a Cockney conman and a kooky showgirl whose brilliantly elaborate plan to steal an invaluable sculpture backfires…
- Woman Times Seven (1967)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman…
- Shirley MacLaine inhabits seven different women in seven fanciful, star–studded mini–stories of adultery for Italian dir. Vittorio De…
- Sweet Charity (1968)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Ricardo Montalban, John McMartin…
- Neil Simon's Broadway version of Fellini's NIGHTS OF CABIRIA makes a smashing musical film thanks to the director's razzamatazz, late 60's chic, and…
- Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Shirley Maclaine
- Mexican–set western adventure following a mysterious nun pursued by the French Army who begins a mutually beneficial relationship with a…
- Possession of Joel Delaney, The (1972)
- Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Perry King, David Elliott
- Horror based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Ramona Stewart, about an upper–class Manhattan divorcee who starts to suspect her younger…
- Turning Point, The (1977)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov…
- Rarely are ballet films quite so dramatically satisfying – if still laden with a few cliches – than this tale of two friends reuniting,…
- A Change of Seasons (1980)
- Dir. Richard Lang
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
- Comedy of tangled relationships and mid–life crises, following a forty–something woman who begins a relationship with a young,…
- Terms of Endearment (1983)
- Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger…
- Classic family saga of loss and reconciliation with Shirley Maclaine and Jack Nicholson, who both won Oscars, as did the film.
- Cannonball Run 2 (1984)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin…
- The answer to the trivia question: which film features both Jackie Chan and Frank Sinatra? More star–studded carnage in this fitfully amusing…
- That's Dancing! (1985)
- Dir. Jack Haley, Jr.
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, James Cagney…
- A compilation of splendid dance sequences from dozens of Hollywood films. Includes over fifty top dancers, with the best of the crop generally dating…
- Out on a Limb (1987)
- Dir. Robert Butler
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Charles Dance, Anne Jackson…
- Unusual docudrama that follows the epic journey of self–discovery of actress Shirley MacLaine, as she travels the world in search of…
- Madame Sousatzka (1988)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine
- Shirley Maclaine is acutely cast as an eccentric, reclusive piano teacher forced to confront the modern world when her talented pupils deny her their…
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah…
- Light comedy–come–tearjerker in which six Southern belles congregate at a beauty salon over several years.
- Postcards from the Edge (1990)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine
- Loose adaptation of Carrie Fisher's autobiography with Meryl Streep as the high–strung actress coping with the pitfalls of show–biz.…
- Waiting for the Light (1990)
- Dir. Christopher Monger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Teri Garr, Clancy Brown
- Shirley MacLaine is a hoot in this silly family film about a former magician who moves her straight–laced niece and her mischievous children to…
- Defending Your Life (1991)
- Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn…
- Albert Brooks plays a high–flying executive who dies in a car accident, then is shifted off to 'Judgement City' – an otherworldly halfway…
- Used People (1992)
- Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates…
- Feathers fly in the hen–house of recently widowed Shirley Maclaine when courted by debonair Marcello Mastroianni.
- Norman Gunston Show, The (1993)
- Feat. Garry McDonald, Shirley Maclaine
- Garry McDonald's ghastly alter–ego, armed with but a microphone, elicits insight as well as fear from luminaries like Shirley Maclaine and…
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
- Dir. Randa Haines
Feat. Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Sandra Bullock…
- A high–spirited, unpatronising portrait of senior citizenship, with consummate performances from two old pro's, Robert Duvall and Richard…
- Guarding Tess (1994)
- Dir. Hugh Wilson
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Shirley Maclaine
- Federal bodyguard Nicolas Cage is unable to escape his duties to the former First Lady (Shirley Maclaine) unwitting that there are a few apron…
- Mrs. Winterbourne (1995)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Ricki Lake
- Ricki Lake shines as a pregnant white–trash waitress who is mistaken for a society widow by hoity matriarch Shirley Maclaine. Short on laughs,…
- West Side Waltz (1995)
- Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Grey…
- Cold widow Shirley Maclaine lives for playing the piano and isolates all except her violin accompanist, Liza Minnelli. A prelude to change comes in…
- Evening Star, The (1996)
- Dir. Robert Harling
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Juliette Lewis, Bill Paxton…
- Long touted 'sequel' to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, continues the smalltown odyssey of feisty, eccentric Aurora Greenway (Shirley Maclaine), now bedevilled…
- Carolina (2003)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Julia Stiles, Shirley Maclaine, Randy Quaid…
- Slightly off–kilter romantic comedy, with the dir. of MRS DALLOWAY injecting a little originality into the normal recipe.
Stiles, projecting…
- Bewitched (2005)
- Dir. Nora Ephron
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley Maclaine…
- An inventive, but overly ditzy attempt at updating the 1960s TV classic, with the twist here being that the modernday witch Kidman longs for the…
- In Her Shoes (2005)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine
- Intelligent, if overly conventional adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's chick–lit novel about two contrasting and clashing sisters: the ebullient…
- Rumour Has It... (2005)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley Maclaine…
- An intriguing meta–Hollywood 'sequel' to THE GRADUATE (1967), in which Aniston plays an unlucky–in–love New Yorker who learns that…
- Closing the Ring (2007)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton…
- Richard Attenborough–directed romance set both in the '40s and present–day, following the wartime history of a ring and an unbreakable…
- Coco Chanel (2008)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Dawson…
- Made–for–television biopic of prolific fashion designer Coco Chanel, covering three different stages of her life from childhood through…
- Valentine's Day (2010)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner…
- Star–studded romantic comedy is an ode to that special day with multiple story lines devoted to the search for love.
Although cynics might…
- Bernie (2011)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Jack Black, Shirley Maclaine, Matthew McConaughey
- A memorable (Jack) Black comedy about a gregarious Texas mortician who befriends a clingy spinster (Maclaine), with murderous results. The film's…
- Downton Abbey - Series 3 (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
- Downton Abbey - A Journey To The Highlands (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern…
- The Crawley Family decamp to Scotland's Duneagle Castle for their summer holidays, whilst Carson attempts to keep the servants on a short leash back…
- Downton Abbey - Series 4 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
- Downton Abbey in London (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
- Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Downton's latest Christmas special centres on Rose's 'coming out' at Buckingham Palace, with Shirley Maclaine and Paul Giamatti in memorable guest…
- Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (2013)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Kathryn Hahn…
- Ben Stiller directs and stars in this splashy adaptation of James Thurber's short story about a meek proofreader who finds solace and empowerment in…
- Downton Abbey - Series 5 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
- Elsa & Fred (Elsa and Fred) (2014)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden…
- Shirley Maclaine and Christopher Plummer take the leads in this remake of the Argentinian romance in which a feisty retiree and her new neighbor, an…
- Last Word, The (2017)
- Dir. Mark Pellington
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Amanda Seyfried
- A once–successful businesswoman writes her own obituary in an effort to keep tight control over her life, enlisting the help of a young local…