Shirley MacLaine lays bare her life in a new book filled with photographs and memories from her seven-decade career.
The actress and author, 90, who opened up about her “terrifying” interaction with former President Donald Trump in her latest tome, The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime, has also revealed a more pleasant interaction with one of the famous men he met along the way.
The actress, who shared an open marriage for 28 years with the late film producer Steve Parker, enjoyed many loves throughout her long life.
She claims to have had romantic relationships with all of her protagonists except two: Jack Nicholson, 87, and the late Jack Lemmon, according to People.
MacLaine and Nicholson won Oscars for their performances in the 1983 drama Terms of Endearment.
Shirley MacLaine, 90, opened up about many of the loves of her life in a new book (pictured in Los Angeles in October 2023).
In the film, MacLaine plays the hard-to-please mother of a young woman who has separated from her unfaithful husband and is then diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Nicholson played MacLaine’s playboy ex-astronaut neighbor with whom she has an affair.
The two had great chemistry on screen, but that’s where it stayed, according to the actress.
‘He just made me laugh all the time. He was one of my favorite people. said the protagonist of her friend.
‘I don’t think he would have been my type to have an affair anyway. I’d laugh too much.’
As for Lemmon, with whom he starred in The Apartment (1960) and Irma la Douce (1963), he said the versatile star “was like a sister to me.” He was a charming boy.
The star connected with Robert Mitchum, with whom she worked on two films, 1962’s Two for the Seesaw and 1964’s What a Way to Go.
“He was just extremely intelligent, hidden, but very, very intelligent,” he explained, adding: “He didn’t have much of a sense of humor.”
MacLaine said that while she and Jack Nicholson shared on-screen chemistry in Terms of Endearment, they didn’t hang out behind the scenes. ”I don’t think he would have been my type to have an affair anyway. “I would laugh too much,” he said.
MacLaine and Nicholson won Oscars for their performances in the 1983 drama (pictured in Los Angeles in 1984).
The actress claims to have had romantic relationships with all of her leading men except Nicholson and the late Jack Lemmon, with whom she starred in two films, including 1960’s The Apartment. She said Lemmon ‘was like a sister to me.’ He was a charming boy.
The star connected with Robert Mitchum, with whom she worked on two films, 1962’s Two for the Seesaw (seen here) and 1964’s What a Way to Go. “He was just extremely intelligent,” but “didn’t have much of a sense of humor.” .
MacLaine said she was a mentor of sorts to co-star Nicolas Cage in 1994’s Guarding Tess. ‘Oh, I love Nicolas. “I love Nicolás,” she said. ‘He listened to my advice about being a star. Yes, I really liked him a lot, but he wasn’t attracted to me.
The Wall of Life will appear in bookstores on October 22
The versatile actress starred in 1994’s Guarding Tess with Nicolas Cage, 60, who played a Secret Service agent assigned to look after MacLaine’s unruly former first lady, but the actress said there was no romance between them between May and December.
‘Oh, I love Nicholas. I love Nicolás,” he told the media.
‘He listened to my advice about being a star. Yes, I really liked him a lot, but he wasn’t attracted to me.’
The Wall of Life will appear in bookstores on October 22.
