Shirley MacLaine has named an iconic Hollywood prima whom she offered to slumber pinch - but who turned down her advances.
The 90-year-old character has conscionable released her photographic memoir The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime.
In its pages, she spills connected her emotion life, which was populated by top-flight names from Hollywood heartthrob Robert Mitchum to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky.
Many of her affairs overlapped pinch her unfastened matrimony to businessman Steve Parker, who was her hubby from 1952 until their divorcement successful 1984.
However, nan book besides includes a image of Shirley pinch 1 dashing Hollywood prima whom - successful spite of her efforts - she was incapable to conquer.
Shirley MacLaine has named an iconic Hollywood prima whom she offered to slumber pinch - but who turned down her advances; pictured 1990
Under a image of herself pinch Morgan Freeman, Shirley wrote tantalizingly: 'I propositioned him and he turned maine down.'
Morgan achieved his Hollywood breakthrough successful 1989 pinch a drawstring of movies including nan play Driving Miss Daisy, for which he earned an Oscar for champion actor.
At that stage, he was already pinch his 2nd wife Myrna Colley-Lee, whom he was joined to from 1984 until their divorcement successful 2010.
By 1989, Shirley had been a prima for decades, making her bones connected Broadway first and past launching her surface profession successful 1955 pinch her movie debut The Trouble With Harry, a achromatic drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Although Morgan and Shirley person some been Hollywood staples for complete 35 years, and he is conscionable 3 years her junior, they person ne'er starred successful a movie together.
During her matrimony to Steve Parker, which produced her girl Sachi, 68, Shirley enjoyed dalliances pinch a wide assortment of celebrated faces.
Soviet director Andrei Konchalovsky, who successful his location state made an acclaimed movie adjustment of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, transitioned to a Hollywood profession successful 1980 - and Shirley says her matter pinch him was nan logic he moved to America.
She besides indulged successful a narration pinch Robert Mitchum, but 'wasn’t profoundly progressive enough' pinch him to time off her husband, she wrote.
Under a image of herself pinch Morgan Freeman , Shirley wrote tantalizingly: 'I propositioned him and he turned maine down'; Morgan pictured successful 1988
When he became a movie prima successful 1989, he was already pinch his 2nd woman Myrna Colley-Lee, whom he was joined to from 1984 until their divorcement successful 2010; pictured 1990
By 1989, Shirley had been a prima for decades, making her bones connected Broadway first and past launching her surface profession successful 1955; pictured astatine nan 1987 Oscars
The 90-year-old character has conscionable released her photographic memoir The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime
In its pages, she spills connected her emotion life, which was populated by top-flight names for illustration Hollywood heartthrob Robert Mitchum; nan brace are pictured successful nan 1962 movie Two For The Seesaw
'And besides, location was excessively overmuch that depended connected our staying married. But Mitchum was a very intelligent, very absorbing guy, and he was married, too.'
On nan minus side, Robert 'didn't person overmuch of a consciousness of humor,' said Shirley, who acted pinch him successful 1962's Two For The Seesaw and 1964's What A Way To Go.
Journalist Pete Hamill was different 1 of her amours during her marriage, arsenic was nan Andrew Peacock, sometime leader of Australia's Liberal Party.
However Shirley maintained he 'never saw a early pinch immoderate of these guys isolated from Steve,' who lived successful Japan and kept a mistress there. 'It was capable to person an affair. And it wasn’t deceitful. Everyone was alert of nan situation.'
Elsewhere successful nan book, Shirley said - presumably pinch lingua successful feature - that she slept pinch each her starring men isolated from for Jack Lemmon and Jack Nicholson.
Many of her affairs overlapped pinch her unfastened matrimony to businessman Steve Parker , who was her hubby from 1952 until their divorcement successful 1984; pictured 1964
Although Morgan and Shirley person some been Hollywood staples for complete 35 years, and he is conscionable 3 years her junior, they person ne'er starred successful a movie together; Shirley pictured 2023
Shirley is pictured pinch Jack Nicholson connected nan group of their 1983 tearjerker Terms Of Endearment, which earned them some Oscars
Jack Lemmon starred pinch Shirley successful Billy Wilder's classical 1960 movie The Apartment, past successful nan 1963 philharmonic drama Irma La Douce by nan aforesaid director.
Shirley described him arsenic 'a darling guy,' but explained that their relationship was strictly a platonic one, joking to People that he was 'like a sister to me.'
Meanwhile Jack Nicholson and Shirley some earned Oscars for successful Terms Of Endearment, nan 1983 tearjerker by James L. Brooks.
'He conscionable made maine laughter each nan time. He was 1 of my favourite people,' gushed Shirley while looking backmost connected their connection. 'I don't deliberation he would've been my type to person an matter pinch anyway. I would laughter excessively much.'
She besides waxed rhapsodic astir Nicolas Cage, her co-star successful nan 1994 movie Guarding Tess, but noted they ne'er had a intersexual relationship either.
'Oh, I emotion Nicolas. I emotion Nicolas. He listened to my proposal astir being a star. Yeah, I really liked him a lot, but he was not attracted to me,' she said.