The irrepressible Shirley MacLaine joins TCM host Robert Osborne in the popular interview series Private Screening, which is accompanied by clips from some of MacLaine's most memorable movies. MacLaine reminisces about her life, which began in Richmond, Va., where she grew up as the sister of Warren Beatty; and has continued on an international scale as dancer, actress, author and intimate companion of such celebrated entertainers and actors as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. MacLaine also discusses the career that began when she was a Broadway gypsy and understudy and took a giant leap forward when she went on for an ailing Carol Haney in the original stage production of The Pajama Game. That led to her discovery for films and her first movie, Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry (1955).

With characteristic humor and insight, Shirley recalls her adventures with Sinatra's "Rat Pack" (or, as she says they were actually called at the time, "The Clan") and her working relationship with such costars as Jack Nicholson, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn and Peter Sellers; and directors including Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli and William Wyler.

by Roger Fristoe