My daddy was a Southern gentleman: conservative, yet a bawdy teller of tales.
Warren and me then and – sort of – now.
It’s all in the family.
My first dancing partner. His name was Moe.
At eighteen I dreamed of being a prima ballerina.
Did this herald my interest in angels?
Me in the chorus of Me and Juliet on Broadway. I had one line: “It seems like only yesterday that Suzie left the show.”
The Pajama Game on Broadway: I enjoyed holding up Eddie Foy, Jr.
Hitchcock was my first director. I had memorized the whole script.
I could only stand still for Edith Head.
Artists and Models: This was the scene Jerry hated doing.
Artists and Models: To me, Dean and Jerry were both sexy.
Some Came Running with Dean and Frank: The beginning of the Clan relationship.
The set of Can-Can: Frank made even Kruschev fun.
All in a Night’s Work: While I had a crush on Dean, neither Elvis nor Hal Wallis lazed me.
Dean and I tore this silver ranch mink during a love scene.
I was just back from India, and Dean and Frank didn’t understand anything I was talking about.
Being on the stage with Frank: a dream that became real for me.
We were all still out there live, left to right: Steve Lawrence, Frank, Lydie Gorme, Liza Minnelli, and Dean.
Steve, Sachi, and me at our Shibuya home. Steve was handsome, intelligent, reflective, and cultured. All necessary qualities to fall in love with and to learn.
My greatest teachers.
My Geisha with Edward G. Robinson, Yves Montand and Robert Cummings. No one knew what was going on between Montand and me. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures, My Geisha © 1995 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved
With Yves Montand: I had just declared Steve the love of my life.
Two for the Seesaw with Robert Mitchum: I should have pulled harder. But he made me laugh too much.
What can I say?
John Forsythe in The Trouble with Harry: Maybe he’ll be my first and last leading man. Copyright © by Universal City Studios, Inc. Courtesy of MCA Publishing Rights, A Division of MCA Inc.
Around the World in Eighty Days with (left to light) Robert Newton, Cantinflas, and David Niven: This was Mike Todd’s idea of camp.
Hot Spell: I don’t know where the tears came from, but Shirley Booth said she was impressed.
The Sheepman: Glenn Ford let his horse christen my hat.
The Children’s Hour: James Garner broke me up continually while we shot this scene.
I adored Audrey Hepburn and I miss her.
Jack Lemmon: The nicest man in Hollywood.
Irma LaDouce: Billy Wilder asked us to take exactly seventeen seconds out of this scene. Jack looked at the clock, and we did.
George C. Scott and Art Carney in The Yellow Rolls Royce: I had to introduce myself to both of them every day.
I brought Michael Caine to Hollywood and then disguised myself for Gambit. Archive Photo
Woman Times Seven: This was the night Danny Kaye walked into our set and swept me away. Vittorio De Sica allowed it.
Sweet Charity: Fosse actually took a break for birthday cake. (Makeup man Frank Westmore is the one with glasses.)
with Chita Rivera (left) and Paula Kelly (right). I just made sure I got out of their way.
The 1968 Democratic Convention: I was watching downtown-Chicago violence on my TV set.
1972: I am still proud to have worked for McGovern.
At a fundraiser for Bella Abzug, with Elizabeth Taylor.
Fidel Castro later gave me one of his uniforms.
Two Mules for Sister Sara with Clint Eastwood: I loved Clint even though he was a Republican. Photofest
Being There with Peter Sellers: I wish Peter had told me we were having an affair. Archive Photos
with Anthony Hopkins in A Change of Seasons: This was before we resolved our feelings for each other.
Loving Couples, with James Coburn: I had to go on a diet to fit into this dress.
Terms of Endearment: Starring and sparring with Debra Winger.
Every take with Jack Nicholson was different and lovingly devilish.
With Jack and Jim Brooks: It was all worth it!
Steel Magnolias: Olympia Dukakis and I became good friends because we recognized ourselves in our characters.
Postcards from the Edge: Meryl Streep is the best in the world to me. But Dennis Quaid isn’t bad either.
With Marcello Mastroianni in Used People: “I don’t understand your accent” became part of my character.
Guarding Tess: Nicolas Cage took my suggestions and then made me laugh.
Still on the stage after forty years and forty movies.
MY LUCKY STARS
A Bantam Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published June 1995
Bantam paperback edition / December 1996
Back cover photograph credits are as follows, top row right, Archive Photos; middle row left, Archive Photos, middle row right, Photofest; bottom row left and center, Archive Photos.
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Copyright © 1995 by Shirley MacLaine.
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