Merlin caption: Actress Shirley MacLaine and daughter Sachi Parker pouting with string of pearls on their heads. this was the cover of LIFE Magazine, 2/9/1959
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Shirley MacLaine shows off the pixie-cute style that helped make her a "mascot" of the Rat Pack throughout the Fifties and early Sixties.
Shirley MacLaine.
Shirley MacLaine.
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Sachi Parker play-screams with mom Shirley MacLaine in 1959. Exorcist author William Peter Blatty refuted MacLaine's claim that her daughter was the inspiration for the possessed Regan, or that he used her face on the book cover.
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Shirley MacLaine and daughter Sachi Parker pose with pearl necklaces in 1959.
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Shirley MacLaine and her daughter Sachi Parker playfully pout, 1959.
Not published in LIFE. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine on the set of the 1966 heist movie, Gambit.
Not published in LIFE. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine on the set of the 1966 heist movie, Gambit.
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Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess of Grantham, left, and Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson.
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Not originally published in LIFE. Shirley MacLaine joyously hugs a fellow delegate after George McGovern's victory at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach.
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Maggie Smith as Lady Violet Crawley and Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson
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Shirley MacLaine, who starred in The Trouble with Harry.
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Unpublished. Shirley MacLaine checks in with the orchestra, 1958 Oscars rehearsal.
Madre. Maman. Mãe. Oma. Inay. Mutter. Mum. Mor. Mama. However you say it, in whatever language, the word for “mother” has a thousand and one subtle variations,...
