Shirley MacLaine five competitive Golden Globe Awards, and received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1998 ceremony. Named after actress Shirley Temple (who was six years old at the time), Shirley MacLean Beaty was born on April 24, 1934, in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a drama teacher, originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. MacLaine's younger brother is the actor, writer, and director Warren Beatty; he changed the spelling of his surname when he became an actor.
When She Loved Me the song has "made more people cry than any other song [Newman has] written." Similarly, Sam Adams, a critic for "The A. V. Club", joked that "There are two kinds of people: People who weep during the 'When She Loved Me' montage, and people who lie about it." Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello identified "When She Loved Me" as a song that continues to make him cry whenever he hears it. McLachlan and Newman performed "When She Loved Me" live at the 72nd Academy Awards in March 2000, where the song had been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.