Stephanie Sachiko "Sachi" Parker (born September 1, 1956). She was the only child of actress Shirley MacLaine and businessman Steve Parker, her husband of thirty years.
At age two, she was sent to Japan to live with her father and his mistress. During the summer and at holidays, she visited her mother, they posed together on the cover of the February 9, 1959 issue of Life Magazine.(pictured above). While living with her mother, she landed and then lost the role of Scout in the classic film, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Video: Very cute pictures and video of Shirley MacLaine and her daughter "Sachi".
Stephanie Sachiko "Sachi" Parker
Parker taught skiing in New Zealand, worked as a waitress in Hawaii, then spent five years as a stewardess for Qantas Airways and later, worked as an au pair in Paris.
In 1981 she returned to Los Angeles and decided to become an actress. Sachi has performed in theater and films throughout the world. These performances include: Stick, directed by Burt Reynolds, Back to the Future, About Last Night, Peggy Sue Got Married, Riders to the Sea and Scrooged, and the TV shows: Star Trek: the Next Generation and Equal Justice. She starred in the 2009 Japanese film, The Witch of the West Is Dead, which showed at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Her theater work includes Ladies in Waiting, Pastorale, and The Lulu Plays, which she won a Daramalogue Best Actress award.
On February 7, 2013, Penguin Group USA published Parker's autobiography, Lucky Me: My Life With and Without My Mom, Shirley MacLaine. MacLaine has called the book "virtually all fiction". Parker recently collaborated with co-author Frederick Stroppel (A Brooklyn State of Mind) on a one-woman show about her life, also titled Lucky Me.
Parker was married to investment banker Frank Murray from 1993 until their divorce in 2011. She and Murray have two children, a son, Frank Murray, Jr. (born 1996) and a daughter, Arin Murray (born 1998).
The Apartment is a 1960 film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow-up to Some Like It Hot. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won five, including Best Picture.
The Apartment is not your typical fuzzy feel good Christmas story. Although.. I still feel that it is a wonderful classic, in which you will see Fred MacMurray in a very different role.
Please click here to view past review: The Apartment(1960).
Ray Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was a stage, television and film actor best known as the title character on the 1960s situation comedy My Favorite Martian.
He is also remembered for his roles as Luther Billis in South Pacific (1949/1958), Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1955/1958), J.J. Singleton in The Sting (1973), high school teacher Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences (1992-1996).
He started acting at an early age, as a "spear carrier" at many New Orleans theaters.
He played small roles with stock companies, where he not only starred in traveling shows but also worked at a movie theater, selling tickets and cleaning the stage floors. His family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he joined Margo Jones, theater company. He later traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent three years with the Cleveland Play House.
He then traveled to New York City, where he made his Broadway debut in a 1945 production of Hamlet. Three years later, Walston became one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio.
In 1949, he appeared in the short-lived play Mrs. Gibbons' Boys directed by George Abbott, who later cast him as Satan in the musical, Damn Yankees(1955), with Gwen Verdon. They both won awards for their performances. After a decade in New York theater, he won a Tony Award, and he and Verdon were invited to reprise their roles in the 1958 film version.
He starred as Luther Billis in the London production of South Pacific(1949). He reprised that role in the 1958 film adaptation. He and Juanita Hall (as Bloody Mary) were the only cast members to appear in both the stage and movie versions.
Additional Broadway performances: The Front Page, Summer and Smoke, King Richard III, Wish You Were Here and House of Flowers, Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Me and Juliet.
Walston had a successful movie career beginning with: Kiss Them for Me (1957), South Pacific (1958), Say One for Me (1959); Tall Story, with Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda, Portrait in Black, and The Apartment (all in 1960), Convicts 4 (1962), Wives and Lovers, and Who's Minding the Store? (both in 1963), Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Caprice (1967), and Paint Your Wagon (1969).
Walston is also featured in the 1973 Best-Picture-Winner The Sting, in which he is crucial to the successful swindling of an unsuspecting griftee (played by Robert Shaw) and in Silver Streak. He also played Mr. Timmer, a prominent character in the 1986 BMX movie "Rad".
He was also among many of the actors who played themselves in cameos for, The Player (1992), although Walston along with several other stars, are actually in character for a movie within a movie sequence.
Walston narrated many U.S. Department of Defense and Atomic Energy Commission (now Department of Energy) films about nuclear experiment, including, the Operation Hardtack I nuclear test film series of 1958.
He made many guest performances in the television shows beginning with, The Outlaws 1960-1961. Walston, was best known playing the title character ("Uncle Martin") on My Favorite Martian from 1963 to 1966, with Bill Bixby. My Favorite Martian, had typecast Walston and he had difficulty finding more serious roles after the show's cancellation.
He later, became a popular character actor in television of the 1970s and 1980s, appearing as a guest star in the shows: Custer, The Wild Wild West, Love, American Style, The Rookies, Mission: Impossible, Ellery Queen, The Six Million Dollar Man, Little House on the Prairie, and The Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby (in which he played Jasper the Magician in an episode called "My Favorite Magician").
In 1976 he played the part of sleazy Edgar Whiney in the film, Silver Streak.
Walston was also known for playing Starfleet Academy groundskeeper "Boothby" in Star Trek: The Next Generation and later on Star Trek: Voyager.
From 1980 to 1992, Walston starred in fourteen movies: 1981's Galaxy of Terror, and 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (as well as its 1986 television adaptation) as Mr. Hand.
In 1984, Walston played a judge on an episode of, Night Court. Six years later, he would work with David E. Kelley while guest-starring on L.A. Law. These roles led to his work as Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences. Judge Bone was originally a recurring role on the show, but Walston proved to be so popular that he was given a starring role the following year.
In his late 70s, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the first time.
Walston made an appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Boothby, head groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, and then reprised the character twice on Star Trek: Voyager, despite the series being set in a distant part of the galaxy.
During his appearance on Star Trek: Voyager in "In the Flesh", he often had trouble with remembering his lines during long one-shot dialogue scenes, but while the cameraman was changing the film for the scene in the briefing room, he quoted a line from Hamlet. Robert Beltran then quoted the next line, and Walston the next. The two went on for several minutes, amazing the entire cast and crew.
In 1985, Walston made a brief appearance in the opening credits of Steven Spielberg's series Amazing Stories, as a caveman acting out a story for his tribe. Only a few seconds long, this performance began every episode of the subsequent series.
In 1992, Walston played the role of Candy in the big-screen remake of, Of Mice and Men. He would work alongside Sinise again two years later in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.
Walston was nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for, Picket Fences, winning twice, in 1995 and 1996. Though Walston enjoyed his work in the series, its ratings were beginning to slip, and CBS cancelled the show after four seasons in 1996.
However, Walston made a guest appearance in an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman entitled "Remember Me", in which he portrayed the father of Jake Slicker, who was stricken with Alzheimer's disease.
As his career was coming to an end he played Grandfather Walter Adams, in the Addams Family Reunion (1998), the second sequel to the1991 film, The Addams Family, this time starring Tim Curry as Gomez Addams and Daryl Hannah as Morticia Addams.
One year later, he appeared in the movie remake of his hit series, My Favorite Martian (1999). His final movie role was in the independent film, Early Bird Special.
He also appeared in an AT and T, TV commercial in which his dialogue implied he was Uncle Martin from Mars, looking for good rates to talk to fellow Martians living in the United States. Just before his death, his final TV guest appearance was on, 7th Heaven.
Walston, died at the age of 86 on New Year's Day 2001 in Beverly Hills, California after a 6-year battle with lupus. He was survived by his widow, Ruth, his daughter, Katherine Ann, and two grandchildren.
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934). Named after Shirley Temple, was born with very weak ankles, so her mother, thought it would help her ankles, if enrolled her in ballet class.
Shirley, performed In the classical plays, "Romeo and Juliet" and "Sleeping Beauty,". Because she was the tallest girl in the class, she always played the boys' role. She eventually did land the female role as the fairy godmother in, "Cinderella." While warming up backstage, she broke her ankle, but continued to danced all the way through.
After leaving ballet, MacLaine danced on Broadway. After she graduated from High School, she became an understudy to actress Carol Haney in, The Pajama Game. Haney broke her ankle and MacLaine replaced her. ( I bet nobody tells Shirley MacLaine "to break a leg" before going on stage.. ) Film producer Hal B. Wallis, was sitting in the audience and liked what he saw and decided to sign her up with, Paramount Pictures.
Personal Quote:
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser".
MacLaine made her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's, The Trouble with Harry (1955), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year Actress. The film starts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is found in the woods. The problem is.. everyone in town thinks that they had something to do with his death. Nobody, but Alfred could make a joke out of a dead body lying in the woods.
In 1956, she had roles in: Hot Spell and Around the World in Eighty Days. At the same time, she starred in the film, Some Came Running, the film that gave her her first Academy Award nomination.
Her second nomination came two years later for my favorite Shirley MacLaine film, The Apartment. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won five, including Best Picture.
Right before Christmas, C. C. Baxter works in the offices of Consolidated Life Insurance. Baxter is surrounded and being used by several womanizing executives who borrow his apartment for their extramarital affairs. In return, Baxter is promised that he will given a promotion as payment for his apartment key.
One night when Joe Dobisch insists on using the apartment, Baxter comes down with a nasty cold while walking the streets. Not feeling well, Baxter spends he afternoon juggling apartment appointments so he can spend the night in his own apartment. Before it is time to go home for the day, Baxter is called to the office of personnel manager J. D. Sheldrake, who questions him to why he has become so popular with the other executives. Baxter, thinking that he may loose his job, tries to come up with a believable story, but in reality the married Sheldrake is trying to get the apartment key.
Not realizing that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran the elevator girl, Baxter asks her on a date to see a play. Although Fran already has plans for the evening, she agrees to join him later. Fran never shows up, leaving Baxter waiting for her at theater.
Soon, Baxter receives his promised promotion into a private office. The other executives, suspicious and angry, question Baxter why they are no longer allowed to use the apartment. Not happy with his answer, they threaten Baxter's new job. Baxter knows he has nothing to worry about as long as he is in Sheldrake's good graces. He remains in the dark when it comes to Sheldrake's dates with Fran at his apartment.
The 19th floor throws a wild Christmas party and Baxter happy to see Fran, invites her back to his office so they can get away from the crowd. Fran runs into Miss Olsen, who is very glad to inform her that Sheldrake is known to be a womanizer. Shocked, Fran does not hear a word Baxter is saying, and when she pulls out her compact, he realizes that it is the same one Sheldrake's mistress forgot at the apartment. Hearing that Sheldrake and Fran have another date at his apartment, the broken hearted Baxter cries in his beer at a nearby bar, becoming an angry drunk.
Fran and Sheldrake exchange Christmas presents at the apartment. When Fran receives her Christmas gift of a $100 bill, she becomes heartbroken. After Sheldrake leaves, Fran swallows Baxter's bottle of sleeping pills and passes out on his bed. Will Baxter be able to save Fran in time? Will Sheldrake finally take responsibility for his actions?
MacLaine, starts out sweet and put together but, as the film moves on, she becomes an emotional mess, you will be wanting the best for her at the end.
She later starred in the film, The Children's Hour (1961), also starring Audrey Hepburn, based on the play by Lillian Hellman. The story begins when, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie best friends, open a successful boarding school for Girls. Karen, is engaged to doctor Joe Cardin.
Things go wrong when spiteful Mary, is punished by Karen after telling a lie. Martha, has an argument with her meddling aunt Lily Mortar, who accuses Martha, of having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells and a friend, overhears and tells Mary, what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. Amelia, spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school...
The photography is wonderful (it was nominated for an Oscar). The relationship between MacLaine and Hepburn is delicately portrayed in this film.
She was again nominated for the film, Irma la Douce (1963), for which she reunited with Wilder and Lemmon. The story begins when, French police officer Nester Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district.
After discovering what looks like a brothel, he organizes a raid, transporting all the 'ladies' to the jail. This unfortunately, finds his station superior at the brothel. Fired, he goes to a bar to get drunk, is befriended by Irma.
Soon after Nester, doesn't like the thought of his girlfriend seeing other men, so comes up with a plan...
I think that you will enjoy this spicy yet innocent little film.
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), in which she starred opposite Clint Eastwood. The film takes place in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do make plans for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are looking for Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort. Will Hogan ever learn about Sara's secret?
Shirley MacLaine, was wonderful in this well directed, film about a sexy nun and a cowboy.
