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• Actress and author Shirley MacLaine has starred in numerous films since her debut performance in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock dark comedy The Trouble With Harry. In 1984, she won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Terms of Endearment. MacLaine has also authored a number of books about spirituality, and has become closely associated with the New Age movement.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Older sister of Warren Beatty
  2. Shares a birthday with Barbra Streisand
  3. Practices Xigong for fitness and relaxation
  4. Honorary member of The Rat Pack
  5. Trademark song: "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from Sweet Charity
  6. Won a Golden Globe for her performance in Madame Sousatzka

• Career Retrospective

  MacLaine won a Golden Globe for her very first performance, in The Trouble With Harry, for Best New Star of the Year (actress). She scored her first Oscar nomination in 1958 for the Vincent Minnelli film Some Came Running, in which she starred with Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. (She later appeared as a cameo in the Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven.)

  MacLaine collaborated twice with director Billy Wilder and actor Jack Lemmon in the 1960s, with The Apartment and Irma la Douce. She was nominated for Best Actress for both films.

  She continues to be featured in mainstream comedies to this day, including the big-screen adaptation of the TV series Bewitched, the Graduate update Rumor Has It and the comedy-drama In Her Shoes, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe award. She did a self-parodying cameo in Albert Brooks' comedy Defending Your Life as the host of the Past Lives Pavilion, playing on her close association with New Age beliefs.

• On The View

  On July 22, 2008, MacLaine appeared on The View and was asked by co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck about radionics, a subject discussed in MacLaine's latest book. MacLaine explained that she uses radionics when working with homeopathy. Radionics is the practice of healing people from a remote location. Practitioners of radionics sometimes use blood, hair, or some other type of unique item from the patient they are focusing on.Watching The View: Shirley MacLaine Interview (July 22, 2008)

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