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April 19 – April 25, 2025
A happy birthday wish: TCM celebrates Shirley MacLaine BY DANA SIMPSON Many film lovers are about to send Shirley MacLaine birth-
gangster’s (George C. Scott) fiancee who becomes involved
MacLaine as the companion of a military veteran (the afore-
day greetings, and those at Turner Classic Movies are among
with a photographer (Alain Delon) after her spouse-to-be leaves
mentioned Sinatra) who returns to his hometown and becomes
them.
her in Italy to return to America on business. Rex Harrison,
friends with a gambler (Dean Martin).
The winner of numerous honors including an Oscar, a Primetime Emmy and six Golden Globes turns 91 on Thursday, April
Jeanne Moreau, Ingrid Bergman and Omar Sharif are also in the starry cast. A bounty of stars is also present in the next feature, “Around
24, when TCM will dedicate its daytime lineup to six of the at-
Director Hal Ashby’s acclaimed 1979 comedy-drama “Being There” is next, with MacLaine as a tycoon’s (Oscar winner Melvyn Douglas) wife who takes an interest in a supposedly
tractions she’s made since launching her screen career in 1955
the World in 80 Days,” the Oscar-winning best picture of
with the Alfred Hitchcock-directed “The Trouble With Harry.”
1956. Producer Michael Todd’s extravaganza features Ma-
brilliant, TV-educated gardener (Peter Sellers). Finally, the 1961
cLaine — in only her third movie — as a princess who ends up
drama “Two Loves” offers MacLaine as an American school-
MacLaine (the sister of actor-filmmaker Warren Beatty) has
joining Phileas Fogg (David Niven) and his valet Passepartout
teacher in New Zealand, where her new involvement with
scored six Academy Award nominations, winning that acco-
(Cantinflas) as they try to win a 19th-century bet that they can
another educator (Laurence Harvey) unsettles her.
lade for “Terms of Endearment” (1983) ... with her famous
circle the entire globe in just under three months. Based on
acceptance-speech proclamation, “I deserve this!”
Jules Verne’s novel, the picture boasts numerous cameos by ce-
Ranging from comedy to drama and musicals in her work,
lebrities from Frank Sinatra to Red Skelton.
A MacLaine “must,” the 1960 comedy-drama “The Apart-
A stage star as well, MacLaine has done the occasional television role (as on PBS’s “Downton Abbey” and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building”), and she also has been a prolific
ment,” is absent from the birthday tribute, but it’s one of TCM’s
Next is the 1958 Western comedy “The Sheepman,” with
most frequently shown titles. The day’s lineup begins with “The
MacLaine as a resident of a town where a gambler (Glenn
Yellow Rolls-Royce,” a 1964 film made up of several stories all
Ford) brings the many sheep he has won. Also from 1958,
ality. Still, her overriding identity arguably has come from her
related to the title car.
the drama “Some Came Running” follows, with the adaptation
movie work, and that will be the TCM-appropriate focus as the
of a novel by James Jones (“From Here to Eternity”) casting
channel sends its regards by giving her a birthday showcase.
MacLaine appears in the second of the three tales as a
author of memoirs detailing her views on mysticism and spiritu-
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