At 89, Shirley MacLaine Lives with Dogs – She Was Seen ‘So Frail and Somewhat Lonely’ Despite Daughter & 2 Grandkids

• Shirley MacLaine rose to fame as Ouiser on “Steel Magnolias.” Scandals and challenges filled her personal life since then.
• She has a daughter and grandchildren, but a painful moment caused them to stop seeing each other.
• Now 89, the actress is often spotted alone, looking frail and lonely in more recent sightings.

Shirley MacLaine had to learn about independence at a young age. Living in a home where her parents were always busy, she’d get ready for school alone and bring herself to ballet class after.

At 11, she was already riding buses and streetcars alone in Virginia. She always had no one to talk to because her parents were asleep when she came home from ballet.

MacLaine turned to dance to cope with the lack of company at home. After graduating high school, she moved to New York, filled with big dreams.

She joined the chorus and did everything she needed to do to keep her job. During one of her performances, movie producer Hal B. Wallis of Paramount Pictures was in the audience.

Wallis saw the talent that MacLaine had and decided to sign her to a five-year contract. The contract started her Hollywood career, and MacLaine became an award-winning actress with a string of successful movies under her belt.

She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar six times throughout her six-decade-long career. MacLaine won one for “Terms of Endearment” in 1983.

She then took a five-year hiatus from making movies before starring in consecutive hit moves through “Madame Sousatzka,” “Postcards from the Edge,” and “Steel Magnolias.”

“Steel Magnolias” was a crowd-favorite movie starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton. Olympia Dukakis, and Shirley McLaine. It cemented her as a fan favorite, with some fans calling her and Olympia Dukakis their heroes.