The vivacious and awe-inspiring Shirley MacLaine turns 81 today! At the TCM Classic Film Festival, she told us about how her dance training shaped her identity as a performer:
That’s how I think of myself. I’m not an actor or a writer or a long-lasting survivor. I’m a dancer. And I feel all the work ethic and the pain and the requirements of what it means get up there, no matter how you feel and no matter what’s going on, and just do it.
Photo credit: Tyler Golden.










