Shirley MacLaine Movies

Want to know the best Shirley MacLaine movies?  How about the worst Shirley MacLaine movies?  Curious about Shirley MacLaine’s box office grosses or which Shirley MacLaine movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Shirley MacLaine movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Lately it seems that almost every other movie I watched starred Shirley MacLaine.  Last week I was watching Can-Can with MacLaine and Frank Sinatra….I was amazed at her singing and dancing in that movie.  I did a quick IMDB check on her career and quickly realized that I have not been giving her career enough attention…and that she would be a great addition to my Ultimate Movie Rankings website.  Shirley MacLaine (1934-) is an Oscar® winning actress, dancer, singer and director. .  She has been nominated for six Oscars® …..winning for her performance in Terms of Endearment.

Her IMDb page shows over 79 acting since 1955. This page will rank Shirley MacLaine movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.

Shirley MacLaine in 1960's The Apartment
Shirley MacLaine in 1960’s The Apartment

Shirley MacLaine Movies Ranked In Chronological Order with Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

 Shirley MacLaine Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Shirley MacLaine movies by co-stars of her movies
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  • Sort Shirley MacLaine movies by yearly box office rank
  • Sort Shirley MacLaine movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Shirley MacLaine movie received.
  • Sort Shirley MacLaine movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • To get the most out of this table please use the sort and search buttons….as it makes it very interactive

Adjusted Shirley MacLaine Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses 

Shirley MacLaine in 1979's Being There
Shirley MacLaine in 1979’s Being There

Possibly Interesting Facts About Shirley MacLaine

1.  Shirley MacLaine was born in Richmond, Virginia and was named after Shirley Temple.

2.  Shirley MacLaine’s little brother is Oscar® winner Warren Beatty.

3.  Shirly MacLaine had weak ankles as a child.  To help with her ankles her mother enrolled her into ballet class at the age of 3.  Her dancing skills eventually took her to Broadway.

4.  Shirley MacLaine was the understudy for Carol Haney in the Pajama Game.  When Haney got hurt, MacLaine took over the part and eventually signed a movie contract with Paramount Pictures.

5.  Shirley MacLaine’s first movie was The Trouble With Harry….which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  The Beaver (Jerry Mathers) played her son in that movie.

6.  Shirley MacLaine has been nominated for 6 Oscars® in her career.  She won the Best Actress Oscar® for her role in 1983’s Terms of Endearment.  5 of her nominations were for acting…she also picked up a Best Documentary nomination for 1975’s The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir.

7.  Shirley MacLaine has been nominated for 15 Golden Globe® nominations for her movie roles.  She has won four Golden Globes® for the following movies.  1960’s The Apartment, 1964’s Irma La Douce, 1983’s Terms of Endearment and 1988’s Madame Sousatzka.

8.  Shirley MacLaine has been married one time.  She was married to Steve Parker from 1954-1982…they have one daughter, actress Sachi Parker.

9. Roles Shirley MacLaine turned down or was seriously considered for:  All That Jazz, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Exorcist, The Graduate, and Superman.

10.  Shirley MacLaine is still going strong…according to IMDb, she has 3 movies in different stages of production…she runs her own website http://www.shirleymaclaine.com/  and has been appearing on popular television shows like Glee and Downtown Abbey.

Check out Shirley MacLaine‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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  2. 1 Officially the last year of the cinema’s Classic era was 1960 and Jane Fonda made her debut that year with just one movie, Tall Story. At the age of 14 in 1949 Julie Andrews performed a voice role in The Rose of Bagdad but did not make another movie until 1964. Shirley MacLaine however made her debut in 1955 in Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry and went on to make another 11 films within the Classic Era. Accordingly I have always regarded Shirley as the last great female star with a substantial body of work in the Classic Era to debut in that era.

    2 VIDEO COMMENTS
    (1) Given the longevity of Shirley’s career and as she has 49 films listed on Bruce’s page I was surprised that you only included 20 of her movies in your presentation.(2) However all 3 of my favourite Shirley MacLaine movies were there – The Sheepman was at No 13 and Terms of Endearment and The Apartment were your Top 2. (3) Bruce and you were agreed on 3 of the Top 5. He caught me slightly off guard by placing Being There albeit very marginally above The Apartment and The Children’s Hour [aka The Loudest Whisper] above Terms of Endearment.
    (4) The usual fine range of original posters with the pick for me being those for Ask Any Girl, Gambit and The Sheepman. (5) 3 magnificent stills from Around the World in 80 Days,
    Irma La Douce, and The Trouble with Harry and a 4th very classy one of Jack and Shirley in The Apartment. (6) Despite its brevity the video overall was good fun so 9.1

    3 IMDB ranks Shirley as the 14th greatest screen actress of all time and she is ranked 6th in Bruce’s 25 Greatest Screen Legends 1950-2010though you of course do not recognise the latter survey as a true reflection of greatness. However IMDB and Bruce are pretty close in relation to Shirley because when only those actresses who debuted in the 1950-2010 period are taken into account IMDB lists Shirley 5th.

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    1. Thank you Bob, your views and observations are always of interest to me even if I don’t always agree with them. What a boring world it would be if we all agreed with each other! 🙂

      Yes this should have been a Top 30 easily, I rushed this through after the Xmas holidays I should have taken my time. I had the impression that she was a minor support in many of her later films and didn’t include them. I think I’ve listed most of her best films though and I did study Bruce’s chart as I wasn’t very familiar with MacLaine’s filmography.

      Glad you liked the posters and stills and your favorites were on there. Shirley MacLaine has been around quite a bit, she’s a well loved actress and very popular in her time, she deserves her place on Bruce’s Screen Legends page.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov2stBHaM-U

      Cheers Bob.

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      1. Hey Steve…..thanks for a video link….to your latest You Tube video. Glad you agree that Shirley deserves a spot on the 1950 – 2010 list. It is amazing but the most recent MacLaine roles have been leads again. The lady is like the Engerizer Bunny…she just keeps going and going.

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    2. Hey Bob…..good review on Steve’s MacLaine video. Good to know that I am close to the IMDb list. This list is very subjective….but I think MacLaine HAS to be on the Top 25 list. Heck her career is still going on. Which is amazing considering she was in Hitchcock movie over 60 years ago.

      I guess if I tweaked my Top 25 legends list…..then I could move it to 1960 to 2010. That would make the list interesting to see….though the classic list would get pretty crowded….though Loy’s spot as “Greastest Box Office Star Of All-Time” would guarantee a spot for her…lol.

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