Biography
Shirley Macmene - American actress theater and cinema, director, screenwriter and producer. In the past singer and ballerina. Known as a writer, the author of a series of autobiographical works describing her beliefs, traveling around the world and the Hollywood career. Winner of the Oscar Award, the owner of the Award of the Center of Kennedy for a lifetime contribution to American culture.Childhood and youth
Shirley Maclean Beaty (Shirley Maclean Beaty) was born on April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia, named after actress Shirley Temple.
Her father Ira Owens Biti was a professor of psychology, the administrator of the State School and Real Estate Agent, and her mother Kathleen Corinne (nee Macmene) was a teacher of dramatic art, from Wolfville, New Scotland, Canada. The family had two children, younger brother - actor, writer and director Warren Beati. Parents brought them up in the Baptist faith.
When Shirley was small, Macrey-beat wheel chases around the country: from Richmond to Norfolk, then in Waverley, finally, they were assieved in Arlington, where in 1945 they gave daughter to the middle school of Thomas Jefferson. Macmene played the baseball in the team of boys, she belonged to a record on home wound.
As a child, Shirley had weak ankles, she constantly fell and received injuries, so Mom decided to write a 3-year-old girl in the dance class of the Washington School of Ballet. The future actress immediately loved the scene, she never missed classes. In classical productions, such as "Romeo and Juliet" and "Sleeping Beauty", she had male roles due to high growth and lack of boys in the classroom.
Once during the warm-up in front of the play "Cinderella," where she played a good fairy, Shirley broke the ankle, but still performed his number. Macmene had to abandon a professional ballet career in his youth, because it grew too thin and high (height 170 cm, weight 58 kg) and could not master the technique in excellence.
On vacation before graduation year at school, McLeene went to New York to try to play Broadway. She was enrolled in the dance ensemble in the production of "I and Juliet", which was on stage in 1953-1954. Then Shirley became a dubler actress Carol Hayee in the musical "Pajama Game."
In May 1954, during the morning performance, the main actress was injured, and Macmene replaced it for several months. The girl remarked the producer Hal B. Wallis, and soon she signed a contract with a Paramount Pictures film studio.
Films
In the cinema, Shirley McLeene made his debut in the film Alfred Hitchcock "Trouble with Harry" in 1955. For this work, it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award as the best novice actress. This was followed by roles in the films "Artists and Models", where Din Martin and Jerry Lewis became partners, and "around the world for 80 days."
In 1958, in the company with Din Martin and Frank Sinatre, Shirley starred in the film "And they ran." This work brought the ascending star the first nomination for Oscar. The second came 2 years later for the film "Apartment" with Jack Lemmon in the lead role, which was a continuation of the painting "Some Lovely" (in the Russian rental "in jazz only girls").
The film received five Oscars, including in the nomination "Best Director" (Billy Wilder). Macmene hoped for a reward for the "best female role", but Elizabeth Taylor took it away. For the "apartment" actress received the Golden Globe.
In 1961, together with the famous Audrey Hepburn, Shirley starred in the Drama "Children's Hour" on the play Lilian Hellman. The history of two women who opened a private school accused of lesbian relations who lost everything got a high evaluation of critics. Then there was a comedy "My Geisha", where the actress performed two roles at the same time. Her partner on the film was Yves Montan.
In the melodraumatic comedy, "Gentle Irma" actress was again lucky to work with Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon. The role of the charming priestess of love, which was intended Marilyn Monroe, was nominated for Oscar in 1964, but the actress premium did not get, but she received the Golden Globe for the best female role.
In the 60s, many films with the participation of Shirley Macmene came to the screens: Western "Two Moula for Sarah", "keep it!", "Gambit", "Seven times a woman", "Bliss Mrs. Bloss", "Cute Chariti" and other.
In the interruptions between shooting, the actress worked on its own projects. One of them is a documentary "Other Half of Heaven: Chinese memories" 1975, filmed together with Claudia Welle, is devoted to women's problems in China. He was nominated for the Oscar Prize in 1976.
At the same time, Macmene participated in a series of concerts in the London Palladium Theater and the New York Palace. The latter came out as a concert album "Shirley Maclaine Live At The Palace". At one of the ideas, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky was present. An actress inspired by the performance, he wanted to invite her to the role in the film "Siberiad", but Shirley did not have time. In the end, Solomina played Elena Korenev, similar to the American star in some photos.
In 1977, Shirley depicted a retired ballerina, very similar to himself, in the painting "turning point" and was nominated for Oscar, another major role was performed by Ann Bankroft.
The 80s began with filming in the "change of seasons" with Anthony Hopkins. In 1984, the long-awaited Oscar came. The Film Academy recognized the McLeen "Best actress" in the tape "Language of tenderness." Jack Nicholson, her film partner, received a prize for the "best male role of the second plan." In addition, the picture received rewards for the director and an adapted script. In the same year, the "tenderness language" of Shirley was awarded the Golden Globe.
In the 90s, the McLeene filmography was replenished with such pictures as "steel magnolia" from Sally Field and Julia Roberts, "Postcards from the edge of the abyss" with Maryl Streep, "Tesman Tess" with Nicholas Cage, etc.
Maclein participated in numerous television projects, including the autobiographical mini-series "on the edge", based on the book of the actress. Among others - Jeanne d'Ark, "Battle of Mary Kay", "Coco Chanel". The actress appeared in the 3rd and 4th seasons of the British Drama "Abbey Dounton" in the role of Marta Levinson, mother of the cortex, Grandem Countess, in 2012-2013.
In the 2000s, "Bernie", "The Incredible History of Walter Mitty", "Youth of Insurance" and other full-length films with the participation of Macmene were released on the screens.
Books
In his youth, Shirley was fond of esoteric. She read the book "A resident of two planets" Frederick Oliver, written in 1886, which opened a new page of the biography of McLeene. The idea of communicating with other civilizations, reincarnation and reincarnation captured the actress. She had an interest in spirituality and metaphysics, the central theme of her bestsellers.
In the memoirs called "Dancing in the Light" ("Dancing in the circle of light") McLeene describes the novel with Andrei Konchalovsky, argues on the topic of the Russian soul.
In the book "Going Within" ("In continuation"), the actress shares the enlightened program of spiritual techniques and mental exercises aimed at becoming healthier, happier, tune in to natural harmony with the surrounding and inner world.
"Dance While You Can" ("Dance, while you can") filled with the most intimate thoughts and feelings about aging, interpersonal relationships, work, parents, daughters, their own future as an artist and women.
The work "I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions" ("I committed with all this: and other confessions") - a funny and ironic description of the career actress.
Personal life
Shirley was married to businessman Steve Parker since 1954. In 1956 their daughter appeared on the world - Sachi Parker. For the actress Steve became her husband and mentor, but their relationship was "free."
Parker and daughter lived in Tokyo, where he had a mistress, Japanese Miki. Shirley, who knew about it, had fun in Las Vegas. She was part of the "rat flock", the acting clan Frank Sinatra, whose members did not suspect that the actress had a husband in his personal life.
On the set of the film "Two on the Swing" McLeene fell in love with his partner Robert Mitchema, for some time they had a novel, overshadowed by the hystericals of the actor's wife.
Shirley returned to the family while working in Tokyo over the film "My Geisha". They seemed happy with her husband, but the actress was not one man's actress, and she started an affair with Yves Montan. Steve closed his eyes to his wife's hobby.
In Hollywood, the actress became famous for the fact that he fell in love with the partner men on the set, except Jack Lemmon and Jack Nicholson, but the novels were fleeting. In 1977, McLeene won the feelings to Prime Minister Sweden by Ulof Palma.
Macmene and Parker lived in marriage 28 years. They divorced in 1982, when the actress learned that her husband was lied all his life about himself, parents, work. In fact, he was Alfonso, without earning a penny, he lived on his wife's money.
After breaking, Shirley was thinking about suicide, but he took himself in his hands, took the daughter and began to live on. The actress no longer married, although the relationship with men were. In the 1980s she had an affair with Andrei Konchalovsky, during his stay in Hollywood.
Shirley McLean now
Shirley Maclein lives in Malibu. Now the actress is working on new projects in cinema and literature. It possesses an inexhaustible energy, every morning walks with the dog of Terry.
In 2018, the Family Mermaid Family film was released on the screens, in which the actress performed the role of an elderly lady telling the grandchildren to the fairy tale in which she herself was heroine.
Filmography
- 1955 - "Trouble with Harry"
- 1958 - "And they ran"
- 1960 - "Apartment"
- 1962 - "My Geisha"
- 1963 - "Gentle Irma"
- 1970 - "Two Moula for Saint Sisters"
- 1977 - "Turning point"
- 1983 - "Language of tenderness"
- 1989 - "Steel Magnolia"
- 1992 - "Second Breath"
- 1999 - "Zhanna d'Ark"
- 2008 - Coco Chanel
- 2012 - Dounton Abbey
- 2013 - "Incredible Life Walter Mitty"
- 2018 - "Mermaid"
Bibliography
- 1970 - Don't Fall Off The Mountain
- 1972 - McGovernment: The man and his beliefs
- 1975 - YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE
- 1983 - Out on a Limb
- 1986 - Dancing in the Light
- 1990 - Going Within: A Guide to Inner Transformation
- 1991 - Dance While You Can
- 2000 - The Camino: A Journey Of The Spirit
- 2011 - I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions
- 2016 - Above The Line: My Wild Oats Adventure