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.
How the West Was Won (film) and initiated a number of spectacles, including remakes of "Cimarron", "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", and "Mutiny on the Bounty". In 1960, MGM dealt with Cinerama to make four films in that process. They were wondering what topic to tackle when Bing Crosby approached them with a proposition. He was developing a television spectacular called "How the West Was Won" based on photographs of the Old West in "Life", with profits to go to St John's Hospital. Rosemary Clooney and he had recorded an album inspired by the same article called "How the West Was Won". MGM bought the project