Shirley MacLaine kicks up her heels on the May 14, 1984, cover of Time Magazine. MacLaine was a chorus gypsy on Broadway by age 18. Her first big break came in 1954, while serving as an understudy to Carol Haney in "The Pajama Game." Just the way the movies say it is supposed to happen, the star got sick, the understudy went on, a movie producer was in the audience, and the rest is history.
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