In “Sick and Dirty,” author Michael Koresky takes a clear-eyed look at golden age Hollywood’s stealth queerness on screen.

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, and eccentric ...

In her ingénue era, former Broadway chorus girl Shirley MacLaine excelled at embodying wisecracking characters all too experienced with seedy men, who refused to give up their hopes that life had ...

May 28, 1953 – Makes Broadway debut in “Me and Juliet” as a member of the chorus. 1954 – As the understudy for star Carol Haney in “The Pajama Game” on Broadway, MacLaine gets her big ...

Whenever he cannot provide a valid transition, Fosse makes the frame a mammoth still picture of his star —strictly for those interested in the north, south, east and west faces of Mt. MacLaine.

Jemal Countess/WireImage, via Getty Images But his most personal collaboration was with Mr. Paley, whom he met in 1976 during rehearsals for a television special starring Shirley MacLaine. Mr.

Even at 90, MacLaine, an Oscar-winning screen legend, is outrageously, unapologetically herself, holding forth on everyone from Billy Wilder (“brilliant but difficult”) to Jimmy Carter (“the ...

Shirley MacLaine is making a ghastly racket. It sounds like a combination of retching and the “aack” noise that the protagonist of that old “Cathy” comic strip used to make whenever she ...

By 1989, Shirley had been a star for decades, making her bones on Broadway first and then launching her screen career in 1955 with her movie debut The Trouble With Harry, a black comedy directed ...

As the story goes, MacLaine was cast as the understudy in the original Broadway production of "The Pajama Game." When the star, Carole Haney, injured her ankle, MacLaine was thrown on stage, with ...

Singer, dancer and actor Shirley MacLaine has lived many lives, and she's documented them in her new memoir, "The Wall of Life," a photographic account of the Academy Award-winner's remarkable ...