"Actor: Shirley MacLaine"

• Postcards from the Edge | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine star as daughter and mother in this wickedly witty expos of life in the Hollywood fast lane based on the autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher.

• Shirley's World | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Meeting would-be Soviet defectors interviewing fi lm stars and even becoming a circus clown - it all comes in a day's work for international photojournalist Shirley Logan (Shirley Maclaine - Steel Magnolias Terms of Endearment). Taking on assignments set by her boss 'World Illustrated' magazine's London editor Dennis Croft (John Gregson - Gideon's Way) the indomitable and highly resourceful Shirley meets more than her share of high drama and intrigue - with some impressive location scenery and a few hilarious moments along the way! Shirley's World represents Shirley Maclaine's only venture into the television-series format. A truly international ITC show the special guests featured a number of favourites including Brian Blessed Ron Moody Dandy Nichols Stuart Damon Joss Ackland Cyril Cusack and Bert Kwouk. This release comprises every episode of Shirley's World and is released here for the very first time on DVD.

• What a Way to Go! | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  What A Cast! What A Past! What A Show!This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be wealthy...

• In Her Shoes | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £2.89   |  Saving you £17.10 (591.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette headline this romcom based on Jennifer Weiner's chick lit novel.

• The Little Mermaid | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.

• Postcards From The Edge | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £4.19   |  Saving you £1.80 (30.10%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A film by Mike Nichols of Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge is an intermittently hilarious, occasionally tear-stained account of an actress' struggle with addiction and with her competitive star mother. Meryl Streep turns in yet another flawlessly perfect performance as Suzanne, who is coping with cleaning up while making yet another idiot cop film. Shirley Maclaine is effective and overpowering as her hard-drinking Old Hollywood star mother perpetually trying to remould her daughter, singing Sondheim songs at parties, showing off her still-perfect legs and occasionally driving into trees. Among the many guest stars, Dennis Quaid is self-effacingly unpleasant as an unreliable boyfriend, Gene Hackman charismatic as a fatherly director and Annette Benning impressive in a cameo as a starlet rival. Nichols' standard slickness is very much on display here; this is perhaps too obviously manipulative a film in which the emotional detail is never quite as impressive as the central performances and script deserve. On the DVD: The DVD takes the rather subversive risk of giving the commentary role to Carrie Fisher, who discusses entertainingly how the screenplay evolved from her original novel, occasionally making clear that certain sentimentalisations of the characters were not her idea; she argues coherently that the film makes Meryl Streep's character a little too much the martyr. She also gives us a lot of faintly scurrilous Hollywood and family gossip. It also provides the theatrical trailer and filmographies for the director and major players. --Roz Kaveney

• Rumour Has It | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £3.89   |  Saving you £14.10 (362.47%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A woman learns that her family was the inspiration for "The Graduate" - and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.

• Bernie | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, Texas, the local funeral director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the town's most beloved residents. Everyone loved Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), a wealthy widow known for her sour attitude, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's still alive. Based on a true story and also starring Matthew McConaughey, Bernie is quirky black comedy with incredible ...

• The Trouble With Harry | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty | Blu Ray | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ben Stiller directs and stars in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

• Rumour Has It | Blu Ray | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A woman learns that her family was the inspiration for "The Graduate" - and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.

• Terms of Endearment 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paramount proudly presents Best Picture Oscar® winner Terms of Endearment for the first time on 4K Ultra HD.This quintessential dramedy-directed, produced, and written for the screen by James L. Brooks (based on a novel by Larry McMurtry)- features a powerhouse cast that includes Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow. Spanning three decades, it follows the ups and downs of a mother-daughter relationship with honesty, heart, and laughs. Both critically acclaimed and a box office blockbuster, it has endeared as a fan favourite 40 years after its release. Product Features Blu-ray Special Features: NEW FILMMAKER FOCUS With James L. Brooks Commentary by Director James L. Brooks, Co-Producer Penney Finkelman Cox & Production Designer Polly Platt

• The Bodyguard/Rumour Has it/Message in a Bottle Triple Pack | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £9.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (115.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In her spectacular film debut Houston plays Rachel Marron a superstar at her peak. Costner plays Frank Farmer the security expert with whom she falls in love.

• Two Mules For Sister Sara | Blu Ray | (09/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the cactus-studded Mexican backcountry of the 1860s, a surly drifter who could easily be mistaken for the Man with No Name becomes protector and lethal helpmate to a red-haired nun wanted by the French for aiding the Juarista revolutionaries. Essentially a two-character showcase for the newly stellar Clint Eastwood and what was beginning to seem the poststellar Shirley MacLaine (subbing for Elizabeth Taylor), this sardonic study in testy collaboration, mutual deception and distrust, and slightly creepy sexual attraction is highly rated by a fairly small number of critics--chiefly, one suspects, for the dual-auteur cachet of having been directed by Don Siegel and based on a story by Budd Boetticher. Others deem it an undersauced spaghetti Western and find that the stars grate on the viewer as well as each other. Cinematography by the great Gabriel Figueroa is some consolation, but... if only Boetticher had been allowed to direct. --Richard T. Jameson

• Elsa & Fred | DVD | (04/05/2015) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Romantic comedy starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. After his daughter (Marcia Gay Harden) persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred (Plummer) strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa (MacLaine), who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Frank embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Frank decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

• The Children's Hour (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (18/06/2018) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Lillian Hellman's ground-breaking 1934 play and nominated for 5 Academy Awards. The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When a badly behaved student starts rumours that her teachers are in a lesbian relationship, there are serious and tragic repercussions for everyone involved. Directed by William Wyler (Ben Hur, Roman Holiday) and co-starring James Garner as Hepburn's boyfriend, The Children's Hour still stands as a powerful indictment of the malice of lies and rumours in society. This is the first time the film is available on Blu-ray in the UK. Special features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Extras TBC Fully illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film and full film credits

• The Apartment | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £9.50   |  Saving you £3.49 (36.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Romance at its most anti-romantic--that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavoury world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humoured Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words--"Shut up and deal"--are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). --Robert Abele

• The Turning Point | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The generations change but the choices remain the same. As young dancers they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) left the stage for marriage and motherhood while Emma (Anne Bancroft) would become an international ballet icon. When Deedee's teenage daughter (Leslie Browne) is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star (Mikhail Baryshnikov in his film debut) the two women are forced to confront the choices

• Sweet Charity (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (02/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The feature debut of the great Bob Fosse based on the Broadway hit, Sweet Charity is a musical re-imagining of Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, starring the wonderful Shirley MacLaine as a taxi dancer looking for love and escape in hippy-era New York. Special Features: 4K restoration of the 157-minute Roadshow version, complete with Overture, Entr'acte and Exit Music 4K restoration of the general release version, with the original and alternative endings Alternative 2.0 stereo, 4.0 stereo and 5.1 surround soundtrack options Audio commentary with film historians Lee Gambin, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Cara Mitchell (2020) The John Player Lecture with Shirley MacLaine (1971): archival audio recording of the celebrated actor in conversation at London's National Film Theatre From Stage to Screen: A Director's Dilemma (1969): original promotional film featuring interview material with Bob Fosse and rare behind-the-scenes footage The Art of Exaggeration (1969): original promotional film profiling the work of famed costume designer Edith Head Interview with Sonja Haney (2020): audio recording of the dance assistant in conversation with Lee Gambin Now and Then: Sammy Davis Jr (1968): archival interview featuring the actor and singer in conversation with broadcaster Bernard Braden Super 8 version: original cut-down home-cinema presentation Image gallery: publicity and promotional material Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with new essays by Pamela Hutchinson and Bill Rosenfield, Neil Simon on Sweet Charity, archival press coverage of the film's release including an interview with Shirley MacLaine, extracts from the pressbook, Federico Fellini on Sweet Charity, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits Limited edition exclusive double-sided poster UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies

• Irma La Douce | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £14.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (12.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Irma La Douce reunited The Apartment team of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine with director Billy Wilder in an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name which had been a hit in Paris, London and New York. The screen transfer by Wilder and his colleague--writer IAL Diamond--however, omits the show's songs, relegating them to a background score refashioned by Andre Previn with some additional themes of his own. Background here is a complimentary term, for whatever qualms one might entertain as to this move, the two sets of themes are skilfully woven together by Previn and emerge as a witty and lyrical aural delight in their own right which is given due prominence on the soundtrack. Wilder is no rush to tell prostitute Irma's story: her affair with Lemmon being the pivot of the tale as he takes on the disguise of an English Lord. Lemmon and MacLaine beautifully play their mutual attraction under Wilder's deft direction with the slapstick never allowed to get out of hand. Many will recognise Wilder's touch in his handling of the scene where Lemmon as a policeman is carted off in a van full of voracious prostitutes from the bunks-in-the-train sequence in Some Like It Hot. The handsome production, designed by Alexander Tranner--with the occasional view of the Seine thrown in for good measure--and the Panavision photography by Joseph La Shelle are further assets. On the DVD: The DVD contains a longer than usual theatrical trailer, half shot as a cartoon with characters closely resembling those Pink Panther figures who emerged at the same time from the Mirisch Brothers, a pair prominent in sustaining the unique success of United Artists, whose name was deleted, in favour of the MGM logo, in the early 1960s. It's too bad that the music on this DVD transfer sometimes strikes a coarse note particularly over the extended opening credits. --Adrian Edwards