The legendary star writes about some of her famous leading men, including her 'Terms of Endearment' costar, in her new book 'The Wall of Life' Fotos International/Getty has always been one of our more candid and forthcoming movie stars. She wrote about her past lives years before woo-woo became fashionable, and both her screen roles and her public persona have always been appealingly what-you-see-is-what-you-get. It's been 41 years since her autobiographical became a new-age bestseller and MacLaine, 90, is once again an open book with , which comes out Oct.
22. In the memoir/photo album, the actress shares previously unseen snapshots from her nine decades on the planet accompanied by observations and anecdotes as only MacLaine can deliver them. Penguin Random House/ Crown Publishing Related: While it's not exactly a tell-all, she doesn't hold back when discussing her life, career and romances.
She writes about her "first love," George Huvos, whose marriage proposal she turned down in order to pursue her dream of stardom as a dancer (yes, dancing — not acting — remains her first love). She also gets into her subsequent open marriage to Steve Parker, to whom she remained wed for 28 years. They shared a daughter, , now 68.
Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty And she makes a rather bold admission, though one suspects, in jest: Her only leading men that she didn't have an affair with were , her costar in 1960's and 1963's , and , who played her love interest in , the 1983 film f.