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  • Birth Name: Shirley MacLean Beaty
  • Birth Place: Richmond, VA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/24/1934, Taurus
  • Profession: Actress; author; screenwriter; director; dancer
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  • Coco Chanel Makes the Debut of a Lifetime | Today's News: Our Take | 9/12/2008
    New Yorks Fashion Week may be coming to a close but Lifetime television is just getting started Chanel style The networks three-hour original movie event Coco Chanel tells the rags-to-riches story of one of fashions biggest icons Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine stars in the title role alongside Golden Globe nominee Malcolm McDowell [Chanels] personality was a very broad canvas says MacLaine It really inspired me to use all the things I hadnt used since playing Aurora Greenway [in Terms of Endearment] The movie begins in 1954 where Gabrielle Coco Chanel MacLaine suffers crisis in both her personal and professional life Told in flashbacks Coco recalls a time when her younger more humble self played by Barbora Bobulova went through similar suffering between the abandonment of her father and an endless rut of doomed relationships But despite the hardships nothing could stop the tireless designer from achieving her couture-giant status Cha read more
  • Shirley MacLaine Has Designs on Coco Chanel Mini | Today's News: Our Take | 12/21/2007
    Shirley MacLaine will play the latter-day Coco Chanel in a past Lifetime miniseries about the fashion icon, Variety reports. The two-parter opens with Chanel in her seventies struggling to reinvent herself. In flashbacks, Barbora Bobulova (In Love and War) will channel Chanel during her up-and-coming years, as a young woman who was raised in a Parisian orphanage. read more
  • Lindsay Lohan Surrenders to Police for May Car Crash | Today's News: Our Take | 7/20/2007
    Lindsay Lohan turned herself into the Beverly Hills Police on Thursday to be fingerprinted and photographed (no crotch shots, please) in connection with her involvement in the Memorial Day weekend car crash where she was found to have a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. Lohan was released on her own recognizance, with a court date slated for Aug. 24.Meanwhile, Lohan's hard partying, though supposedly now curbed, may have cost her a film gig. Poor Things, in which she was to have starred with Shirley MacLaine, had its plug pulled because, as an e-mail from a production source cited by the New York Post claims, "Ms. Lohan's [recent] antics... have scared the bond companies, and all of the funding has been pulled."A pal of LiLo's refutes the spin, saying the film "was a mess to begin with," then adds, "Lindsay is proving to everyone that she is, and will remain, sober by voluntarily wearing the ankle bracelet and taking drug tests." read more
  • Celebs Offer Support for Lindsay Lohan | Today's News: Our Take | 5/31/2007
    Shirley MacLaine, who is producing and costarring in Lindsay Lohan's next movie, Poor Things, has vowed to stand behind the hot mess, even going so far as to rearrange the shooting schedule so that Lindz can still participate once she's detoxed. "We wish her love and the blending of mind, body and spirit," reads the noted kook's statement.Today's News was written by Ben Katner. read more
  • At the Movies: Warner Eyes Plame/CIA Scandal | Today's News: Our Take | 3/2/2007
    Per Variety, Warner Bros. is developing a feature based on marrieds Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and the CIA leak scandal in which they were embroiled in 2003.... Joshua Jackson, David Denman (The Office), James Kyson Lee (Heroes) and John Hensley (Nip/Tuck) have joined the psychological thriller Shutter. Jackson and Rachael Taylor will play a married couple.... Steel Magnolias' Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis are in talks to reunite for Poor Things, a dark comedy about con women who befriend and then murder homeless men in order to collect their life-insurance policies. Funny! read more

more Shirley MacLaine news (12 total news articles)

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Coco Chanel (Anchor - Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel) 2008 TV Show Series
Julia Roberts Tribute (Remarks by) 2007 TV Show Series
Movies Rock! A Celebration of Music & Film (Appearing) 2007 TV Show Series
Bewitched (Actor - Iris Smythson/Endora) 2005 Movie
In Her Shoes (Actor - Ella Hirsch) 2005 Movie

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