PRESS RELEASE
An Evening with Shirley MacLaine
An Evening with Shirley MacLaine
40th Anniversary Screening of THE TURNING POINT
(1977)
Wednesday, January 11, at the Music Hall
Theatre, 7:15 PM
On January 14 the Los
Angeles Film Critics Association will present its Career Achievement Award to
Shirley MacLaine, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen for the last 60 years.
In conjunction with that event, the Anniversary Classics series offers an intimate
conversation with MacLaine, along with a 40th anniversary screening of her
award-winning film, The Turning Point. The movie was nominated for
11 Academy Awards in 1977 and won Golden Globes for Best Drama and Best
Director Herbert Ross. Screenwriter Arthur Laurents won the Writers Guild award
for Best Original Screenplay. Both MacLaine and co-star Anne Bancroft were
Oscar-nominated for their performances in the film, and dancers Mikhail
Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne also received nominations for their supporting
roles.
The Turning Point tells the story of two friends who started out
together as dancers in a national ballet company (modeled on American Ballet
Theatre). Bancroft’s character became a prima ballerina while MacLaine’s
character chose to give up her career and raise a family. When MacLaine’s
daughter (played by Browne) launches her own career as a dancer, the two women
examine the life choices that they made two decades earlier, and long buried
jealousies and resentments come to the surface. Variety called
the movie “one of the best films of its era,” and added, “Pic ranks as one of
MacLaine’s career highlights.” New West magazine agreed that The
Turning Point was “among the most emotionally satisfying movies of
recent years.”
After starting as a
dancer on Broadway, Shirley MacLaine made her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s The
Trouble with Harry in 1955. She earned her first Oscar nomination when
she co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Some Came Running in
1958. She earned two more nominations for her performances in Billy Wilder’s The
Apartment (1960) and Irma La Douce (1963). She won the Oscar in 1983
when she starred in James L. Brooks’ Terms of Endearment. Among her
many other films are Around the World in 80 Days, Ocean’s
Eleven, The Children’s Hour, Sweet Charity, Being
There, Steel Magnolias, Postcards from the Edge,
and more recent turns in Richard Linklater’s Bernie with Jack
Black and Elsa & Fred with Christopher Plummer.
Tickets are available at
the Music Hall box office and here: https://www.laemmle.com/films/41857
Music Hall Theater
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills CA 90211
(310) 478-3836
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