Shirley
MacLaine Proves She’s ‘Still Here’
Network
Host Robert Osborne Interviews Star for New Private Screenings
to
Premiere Nov. 4
Academy
Award®-winning actress Shirley MacLaine will join network host
Robert Osborne for the newest installment of the Turner Classic Movies Private
Screenings interview series. Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
(2003) premieres on TCM Nov. 4 at 8 p.m., followed by an encore
presentation at 11:15 p.m. A 12-film, month-long celebration of
MacLaine’s films will air every Tuesday throughout the month.
In
Private Screenings, MacLaine discusses the career that began when she was
a Broadway understudy who stood in for an ailing Carol Haney in the original
stage production of The Pajama Game, which quickly led to a five-year
contract with Paramount Pictures. With characteristic humor and insight, Shirley
recalls her adventures with Sinatra’s “Rat Pack,” clarifying that the
“Rat Pack” was actually a misnomer referring to what was known as “The
Clan” by the celebrity group of friends. She also describes her working
relationship with such co-stars as Jack Nicholson, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn
and Peter Sellers and directors including Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli and
William Wyler.
TCM’s
film tribute kicks off with Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT (1960, Nov. 4, 9
p.m.), which not only garnered Oscar® nominations for both MacLaine
and co-star Jack Lemmon, but also won Best Picture that year. Also showing
are SOME CAME RUNNING (1959, Nov. 4, 3 a.m.), and IRMA LA DOUCE (1963,
Nov. 4, 12:15 a.m.), both of which brought MacLaine Oscar®
nominations, and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.), which finally
earned her the award. Other films in TCM’s salute include Two For The
Seesaw (1962, Nov. 11, 10:30 a.m.), Two Loves (1961, Nov. 11, 1 a.m.), Around
the World in Eighty Days (1956, Nov. 18, 8 p.m.), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964,
Nov. 18, 11 p.m.), The Sheepman (1958, Nov. 18, 1:15 a.m.), The Childrens Hour
(1961, Nov. 25, 12 a.m.), Gambit (1966, Nov. 25, 10 p.m.) and Two Mules For
Sister Sara (1969, Nov. 25, 8 p.m.).
When
asked about her own recipe for success in Hollywood, she advises young actors to
“live life while you are trying to enact life.”
Turner
Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 65 million homes, is a 24-hour cable
network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., an AOL Time Warner company.
TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film
library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from
the ‘20s through the ‘80s, commercial-free and without interruption.
For more information, please visit the TCM Web site at www.turnerclassicmovies.com.