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Want to Write a Guest Post for Women and ...AFI Honors Shirley MacLaine with Lifetime Achievement Award
She's done everything. She started out as a dancer on Broadway and replaced Carol Haney in The Pajama Game and was signed to a Hollywood contract following her star making performance.
She's been in some amazing classics like The Apartment, The Turning Point, Sweet Charity and The Children's Hour based on the play by Lillian Hellman. She finally won an Academy Award in 1983 after five nominations for Terms of Endearment. Her post Oscar career has been just as stellar with films including Steel Magnolias, Postcards from the Edge, and the undervalued In Her Shoes. And she is not slowing down at all. If you look at her imdb page she has about five films in pre-production. She recently filmed an episode for the third season of Downton Abbey where she will play Cora's (Elizabeth McGovern) mother.
And don't forget, she's also been a political activist her whole career even campaigning for George McGovern in 1972.
In a fully star studded evening where MacLaine included only women at her table - co-stars like Sally Field, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts as well a Meryl Streep. In her speech MacLaine acknowledged the women by saying they were "my other half of the sky and my sustained belief that you women will make the world a better place."
Streep ended the tribute by saying this about MacLaine:
She likes difficult women like I do. She likes prickly women. Shirley, you cut the path for all of us. You have done all of your greatest work in what we call middle age. You are writing the template on how to create a lasting career.
Make sure to check out Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood and Pete Hammond of Deadline accounts of the evening. You can watch the full tribute on June 24th on TV Land.
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Vera | June 13, 2012 8:59 AM
Good on you Shirley! Overdue as it is you deserve it! Seems though her friend Barbra Streisand didn't attend Shirley's AFI lifetime achievement tribute which seems odd. Anyone know why?
Laura | June 11, 2012 8:22 PM
Since I was a little girl I have been a Shirley MacLaine fan. I remember in the mid to late 70's the media was clowning her but she stuck to her guns. I always admired her for that. Always felt that if she was man she would have had much more roles. It's a shame that in the 40 years of AFI only 7 (white) women were honored. Would have loved to see such greats as Ida Lupino and Anne Bancroft honored.
Loretta | June 11, 2012 4:40 PM
Parker Posey fans!! Check out her new movie "The Love Guide" coming out June 19th!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwSkHKK2EjA