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Shirley MacLaine names iconic Hollywood star who turned down her sex offer

In her new photographic memoir, she spills on her love life, which was populated by top-flight names from Hollywood heartthrob Robert Mitchum to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky.

In its pages, she spills on her love life, which was populated by top-flight names from Hollywood heartthrob Robert Mitchum to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky. By 1989, Shirley had been a star for decades, making her bones on Broadway first and then launching her screen career in 1955 with her movie debut The Trouble With Harry, a black comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Soviet director Andrei Konchalovsky, who in his home country made an acclaimed film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, transitioned to a Hollywood career in 1980 - and Shirley says her affair with him was the reason he moved to America.

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