Shirley MacLaine: Actress and Novelist

With her ease for saucy dialog she was an instant hit over the next few years with more invoking roles like Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970, opposite Clint Eastwood) and Desperate Characters (1971).

She divorced her husband, Steve Parker after a high-profile romance and several years of marriage. They had a daughter, Sachi Parker, who is also an actress and speaks fluent Japanese after having lived in Asia with her father since she was a child.

Shirley MacLaine's life has been fully revealed in several of her novels. Some are very fact finding about the mysteries of life and reincarnation.

MacLaine believes that her daughter Sachi was her mother in an earlier life. Ridiculed, skeptics have questioned MacLaine's beliefs. Even her fellow actors are skeptics. "Shirley - I love her, but her oars aren't touching the water these days." - Dean Martin

With seven best-selling novels now penned about her experiences of re-incarnation, channeling, and metaphysics. She remains outspoken and has past lives that span seven decades. Don't Fall Off the Mountain, a 1970's best seller, takes readers on a remarkable journey into her life and her inner self.

Out on a Limb, travels Stockholm to the mountain vastness of Peru where she discovers the roots of her very existence. This book was made into a movie in 1987, in which she stared as herself.

Her latest of mystical vision novel is The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit dealing with the Santiago de Compostela Camino -- a famous pilgrimage that has been undertaken by people for centuries across northern Spain. The Camino is a 500-mile path that is said to be directly under the Milky Way where the energy of the star systems above it reflects down upon its travelers. MacLaine traversed the 500 miles by herself in 30 days and believes she is now living her sixth decade of life through reincarnation on this earth.

No matter what you may believe -- these novels are intriguing and who's to say -- Shirley is admired for her outspokenness and her acting ability. Only Shirley MacLaine could play the roles in Steel Magnolias (1989), Meryl Streep's showbiz mother in Postcards From the Edge and an eccentric great-aunt in Waiting for the Light (both 1990), or the newly grandmother in Mrs. Winterbourne (1996).

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