![]() MacLaine makes a lovely meal of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘I’m Still Here’.Īlso in the cast are Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes, Conrad Bain, Annette Bening, Simon Callow, Gary Morton, C C H Pounder, Sidney Armus, Robin Bartlett, Barbara Garrick, Michael Ontkean, Oliver Platt, Dana Ivey and Anthony Heald. Streep was Oscar nominated as Best Actress, and Shel Silverstein was Oscar nominated for Best Original Song for his music and lyrics for the song Meryl sings ‘I’m Checkin’ Out’. Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine play versions of the late, great mother-daughter duo Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds in this adaptation of Fishers. The two women give their most appealing performances in ages in this touching, funny, sharp comedy drama, with a deliriously bleary-eyed view of the movie scene. Carrie Fisher also writes the adapted screenplay. MacLaine and Streep battle it out in Nichols’s highly entertaining film of Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel about life in Hollywood’s fast lane. SHIRLEY MACLAINE (1.37) One-time Oscar winner (Terms of Endearment) in six nominations one-time Emmy winner. When youre acting with Meryl, said Shirley MacLaine. She received rave reviews playing Meryl Streeps mother in Postcards from the Edge. SEE Meryl Streep movies: 25 greatest films ranked from worst to best. And MacLaine costars in the films best performance as Streeps alcoholic, former-movie-star mother. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. ![]() Kramer (1979) played out much like the divorced couple they were playing on screen. Vale’s film company demands she live with her mother as a condition of employing her. Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep's working relationship on the set of the Oscar-winning film Kramer vs. Postcards from the Edge **** (1990, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 10,245ĭirector Mike Nichols’s 1990 celebrity memoirs movie Postcards from the Edge finds Shirley MacLaine bravely playing an ageing, drinking, domineering Mommie Dearest-type star named Doris Mann and Meryl Streep playing her drug-abusing actress daughter, Suzanne Vale.
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