Shirley MacLaine is laying her life bare in a new book full of photos and memories from her seven decade career.
The actress and author, 90, who opened up about her ‘scary’ 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 she met along the way.
The actress, who shared an open marriage for 28 years with the late movie producer Steve Parker, enjoyed many loves throughout her long life.
She claims to have had romantic liaisons with all her leading men except two — Jack Nicholson, 87, and the late Jack Lemmon, according to People.
MacLaine and Nicholson both won Oscars for their performances in the 1983 drama Terms of Endearment.
Shirley MacLaine, 90, has opened up about many of the loves in 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 split from her cheating husband and is later diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Nicholson starred as MacLaine’s playboy former 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.’ the leading lady said of her pal.
‘I don’t think he would’ve been my type to have an affair with anyway. I would laugh too much.’
As for Lemmon, with whom she starred with in 1960’s The Apartment and 1963’s Irma la Douce, she said the versatile star ‘was like a sister to me. He was a darling guy.’
The star did hook up 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 he was very, very intelligent,” she explained, adding, ‘He didn’t have much of a sense of humor.’
MacLaine said while she and Jack Nicholson shared on-screen chemistry in Terms of Endearment, they did not get together behind the scenes. ”I don’t think he would’ve been my type to have an affair with anyway. I would laugh too much,’ she said
MacLaine and Nicholson both won Oscars for their performances in the 1983 drama (Pictured in Los Angeles in 1984)
The actress claims to have had romantic liaisons with all 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 darling guy’
The star did hook up 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 sort of mentor to costar Nicolas Cage in 1994’s Guarding Tess. ‘Oh, I love Nicolas. I love Nicolas,’ she said. ‘He listened to my advice about being a star. Yeah, I really liked him a lot, but he was not attracted to me’
The Wall of Life will appear on bookstore shelves October 22
The versatile actress starred in 1994’s Guarding Tess with Nicolas Cage, 60, who played a secret service agent appointed to take care of MacLaine’s rambunctious former First Lady, but the actress said there was no May–December romance between them.
‘Oh, I love Nicolas. I love Nicolas,’ she told the outlet.
‘He listened to my advice about being a star. Yeah, I really liked him a lot, but he was not attracted to me.’
The Wall of Life will appear on bookstore shelves October 22.
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