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…