She later said, 'Of all my roles, I would say it is my favourite.' 'I deserve this,' she announced from the podium. 'I believe that when we have shed a physical body, our spirit can re-visit the physical plane of existence,' she said, and this was addressed in her 1983 book Out On A Limb.ДЎ984: After 25 years in films and having been nominated six times, Shirley won an Oscar for Terms Of Endearment. In the 1980s, she became known for her new age beliefs. I did it straight away.'ДЎ983: In the tearjerker Terms Of Endearment, Shirley co-starred with Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson. 'What's he going to do - wear my clothes and play my parts? It would be difficult to make a film with him, though. It was once said that Shirley was annoyed when Warren started acting. In 1962, when their daughter, Sacha, was six, she went to Japan to live with her father.ДЎ976: Shirley describes her brother, Warren Beatty, as 'the beautiful one in the family'ДЎ976: T his is a rare photo of Shirley with her brother - 'the beautiful one in the family' - when she was appearing at the Palace Theatre in New York. 'I was married for 30 years,' Shirley says, 'but he lived in Japan - his business kept him there.' He was so funny.'ДЎ959: Shirley married Steve Parker in 1954. I had a crush on Dean for about six weeks. 'Here I was, a 19-year-old chorus girl, with no acting experience,' she says.ДЎ958: 'Frank had seen me on TV, and asked me to do the film Some Came Running with him and Dean Martin. Within months she was starring in the legendary director's The Trouble With Harry. 'It was a house of longings and disappointment, and my brother and I felt that.'ДЎ955: When Carol Chaney could not perform in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game, Shirley took her place and was spotted by a rep for Alfred Hitchcock. My parents put aside their own interests for our family. Mum wanted to act and my dad wanted to join the circus. 1955: At the age of 19, Shirley was spotted by a rep for Alfred Hitchcock and went on to star in The Trouble With HarryДЎ944: Shirley, pictured above right, with her mother, grandmother and Warren, says: 'Both my parents came to think of themselves as failures.

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