Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles
An early Shirley in this epic Technicolor comedy-adventure based on Jules Verne, overstuffed with superstar cameos and produced by the impresario Mike Todd. David Niven sauntered through the role of the globe-circling gent Phileas Fogg and 22-year-old MacLaine was cast in the way Hollywood sometimes saw her in those days … as someone whose feline, gamine looks had something exotic and Asiatic about them.
The pretty young woman to whom he was married – MacLaine – doesn’t seem at all unhappy to register the fact, and she has a very flirtatious relationship with a would-be artist, played by John Forsythe, who makes it very plain he would like her to undress so he can paint her. MacLaine is not really a Hitchcock heroine: too smart, too self-aware, too non-blond.
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