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You can watch Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996) for free on Kanopy.

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry." It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum.

Trading a rigid middle-class upbringing for the intoxicating glow of the spotlight, this portrait traces a meteoric rise fueled by balletic grace and relentless ambition. Witness the evolution of a screen legend as she navigates the dizzying transition from Broadway stages to Hollywood royalty.