Shirley MacLaine makes uncommon video look for ‘Sweet Charity’ screening

Shirley MacLaine, who performed the title function in 1969’s “Sweet Charity,” made a uncommon video look this week for a New York theater doing a screening of the musical.

The 92-year-old actress advised the Southampton Playhouse in Long Island in a video posted to their Instagram: “Wish I could be with you” forward of the Aug. 25 exhibiting of her film.

“I would like to see ‘Sweet Charity’ again,’” she added. “And while you’re watching it, remember how hard we worked.”

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The “Steel Magnolias” star then stage whispered, “And between you and me, it didn’t do very well, so I hope you guys like it.

“Much love,” she added, blowing a kiss.

MacLaine received plenty of love in the comments.

“Oh, Shirley. I really like you. What an unbelievable human being,” one fan wrote, and another said, “I fell in love with Shirley in 1969 once I noticed her up on the massive display screen in Sweet Charity.”

A third quipped, “The biggest legs in showbiz!”

“Sweet Charity,” which was legendary choreographer Bob Fosse’s directorial debut, flopped at the box office, making only $4 million domestically on a $20 million budget, according to Turner Classic Movies.

The film’s failure slowed the rollout of big budget musicals in the industry for a time.

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Fosse’s second directorial effort, “Cabaret” with Liza Minelli, three years later, however, was a success.

MacLaine has been spotted out and about in Los Angeles a couple of times this year, and her last public appearance was in December when she received a lifetime achievement award at the first-ever Dance Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles.

Chita Rivera, who was in “Sweet Charity” with MacLaine, advised a Playbill reporter a number of years in the past that Fosse advised her and Paula Kelly that their dancing needed to be good within the quantity, “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This,” because he would always use the take when MacLaine looked the best.

But she added that when she overshot a leap and Fosse decided that was the shot to go with, MacLaine sensed Rivera’s frustration and used her position to ask Fosse if they go do it again so Rivera could get it right.

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MacLaine left for New York to dance when she was just a teenager.

She advised CBS in 2024 that she remembered her dance academics telling her “that I’ve an excessive amount of expression in my dancing. I would need to take into consideration performing.”

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She got her start in the Broadway play “The Pajama Game” and was quickly cast in Hitchcock’s “The Trouble with Harry” in 1955.

She received her first Academy Award nomination three years later for her role in “Some Came Running” and won an Oscar for her performance in “Terms of Endearment.”

MacLaine told CBS she’s not afraid of dying.

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“I’m form of curious about going there,” she said. “I’m wanting ahead to being a part of the heaven expertise. I actually am.”