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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996 · 60 min

A breezy, affectionate stroll through a star's career, full of clips and anecdotes that glide by pleasantly without asking much of you.

Overview
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry." It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum.

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • celebrity
  • art
  • identity
  • family
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism9
Romance2
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Suzette Winter, Gene Feldman
Written by
Gene Feldman, Suzette Winter
Starring
Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, John Forsythe, Robert Harling, Charlton Heston, Anthony Hopkins, Alan Johnson, Jack Lemmon
Cinematography
Matthew Ranson
Runtime
60 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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