Shirley MacLaine & Elvis Presley: The Shocking Truth! - Paperback (ONLINE ORDER ONLY)

by D. Martin (Author)

Shirley MacLaine, born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24th, 1934, Richmond, Virginia, U.S., is a film, TV, and theatre actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author. An Oscar winner, MacLaine was presented with the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award by the American Film Institute during 2012 then given the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to US culture through the performing arts the following year. She's known for her New Age beliefs, with an interest in spirituality and reincarnation, having written a series of autobiographical books that describe her beliefs, world travels, and Hollywood career.

Shirley's first movie was Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry in 1955. A 6-time Academy Award nominee, she was nominated for Best Documentary Feature for The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975), having been given Best Actress nominations for Some Came Running (1958), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), and The Turning Point (1977), before winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment (1983). She twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, for Ask Any Girl (1959), and The Apartment (1960) then won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Special for the TV special, Gypsy In My Soul (1976). MacLaine has also won 5 competitive Golden Globe Awards, having received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award during 1998.