Best Shirley MacLaine Movies
5 Best Shirley MacLaine Movies: Postcards From The Edge (1990)
Based on Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, Meryl Streep is the other half of a mother and daughter team that qualifies for the family rate at the local rehab center. MacLaine's rendition of "I'm Still Here" could be the anthem for any older actress. Mike Nichols directs this very funny Shirley MacLaine film.
5 Best Shirley MacLaine Movies: Being There (1979)
Peter Sellers is a feeble-minded gardener who just likes to watch TV. After his employer's death turns him out of his isolated home, he gets hit by MacLaine's limo and taken into the estate she shares with her powerful lobbyist husband who's dying of cancer. The nation and MacLaine wind up under his sway as his empty musings reveal everyone to themselves. Hal Ashy directs.
5 Best Shirley MacLaine Movies: Sweet Charity (1969)
Based on Fellini's dark masterpiece Nights of Cabiria, it's a little like making Macbeth into a musical comedy and having it work out thanks mostly to MacLaine's performance along with the magic of Bob Fosse's direction and choreography. You have to see Cabiria first to understand the profound message about romantic delusions in this tale of a dance hall hostess who wants to be loved. You can enjoy Chita Rivera's dancing even if you never heard of Fellini.
5 Best Shirley MacLaine Movies: The Apartment (1960)
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine are both hapless corporate drones who've entered into bad deals with the more powerful executives. Lemmon lets his colleagues borrow his apartment for their trysts, but never gets the promised promotions. MacLaine gets involved with Fred MacMurray who never follows through on his promises to leave his wife. Directed by Billy Wilder, it's always witty as Lemmon and MacLaine come to an arrangement of their own.
5 Best Shirley MacLaine Movies: The Trouble With Harry (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock directed MacLaine's sparkling film debut. The trouble with her late-husband Harry is that everyone keeps burying and reburying him because no one is certain who killed him. The zany neighbors include John Forsythe as a temperamental artist who wants to be her next husband. Jerry Mathers plays her son before becoming famous as TV's Leave it to Beaver.
The best Shirley MacLaine films make you very happy that she's still here.
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