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Shirley MacLaine accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during the inaugural Dance Hall of Fame ceremony in Culver City, Calif., in December. (Getty Images for Dance Hall of Fame)<\/p>\n
The “Steel Magnolias” star then stage whispered, “And between you and me, it didn\u2019t do very well, so I hope you guys like it.<\/p>\n
“Much love,” she added, blowing a kiss.<\/p>\n
MacLaine received plenty of love in the comments.<\/p>\n
“Oh, Shirley. I love you. What an incredible human being,” one fan wrote, and another said, “I fell in love with Shirley in 1969 when I saw her up on the big screen in Sweet Charity.”<\/p>\n
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Shirley Maclaine walks arm in arm with a companion while leaving a restaurant in the LA area in January 2026. (Amnesty for Brasil\/Backgrid)<\/p>\n
A third quipped, “The greatest legs in showbiz!”<\/p>\n
“Sweet Charity,” which was legendary choreographer Bob Fosse\u2019s directorial debut, flopped at the box office, making only $4 million domestically on a $20 million budget, according to Turner Classic Movies.<\/p>\n
The film\u2019s failure slowed the rollout of big budget musicals in the industry<\/a> for a time.<\/p>\n JOAN COLLINS SHARES HER SIMPLE SECRETS TO AGING GRACEFULLY AT 93<\/a><\/p>\n Fosse\u2019s second directorial effort, “Cabaret” with Liza Minelli<\/a>, three years later, however, was a success.<\/p>\n MacLaine has been spotted out and <\/a>about<\/a> in Los Angeles a couple of times this year, and her last public appearance was in December when she received a lifetime achievement award at the first-ever Dance Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Chita Rivera, who was in “Sweet Charity” with MacLaine, told a Playbill<\/a> reporter several years ago that Fosse told her and Paula Kelly that their dancing had to be perfect in the number, “There\u2019s Gotta Be Something Better Than This,” because he would always use the take when MacLaine looked the best.<\/p>\n Shirley MacLaine appears in a scene from the film “Sweet Charity.” (FilmPublicityArchive\/United Archives via Getty Images)<\/p>\n But she added that when she overshot a leap and Fosse decided that was the shot to go with, MacLaine sensed Rivera\u2019s frustration and used her position to ask Fosse if they go do it again so Rivera could get it right.<\/p>\n JANE FONDA TOUTS HER ROLE IN EARTH DAY MUSICAL ‘DEAR EVERYTHING’ AS HER LATEST ENVIRONMENTALIST EFFORT<\/a><\/p>\n MacLaine left for New York to dance when she was just a teenager.<\/p>\n She told CBS<\/a> in 2024 that she remembered her dance teachers telling her “that I have too much expression in my dancing. I might want to think about acting.”<\/p>\n MICHELLE PFEIFFER SAYS SHE FELT ‘HUMILIATED’ FOLLOWING HER AUDITION FOR HER BREAKTHROUGH ROLE IN ‘GREASE 2’<\/a><\/p>\n She got her start in the Broadway play “The Pajama Game” and was quickly cast in Hitchcock\u2019s “The Trouble with Harry” in 1955.<\/p>\n![\"Shirley](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shirley-maclaine-sweet-charity.jpg\")
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