Editing Shirley MacLaine (section)

== Early life and education ==
Named after child actress [[Shirley Temple]], who was six years old at the time, Shirley MacLean Beaty<!-- spelling of Beaty here is correct --> was born on April 24, 1934, in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty,<!-- spelling of Beaty here is correct --><ref>Gary Boyd Roberts (Revised April 18, 2008) [https://web.archive.org/web/20090301172443/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr83.asp #83 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: A Third Set of Ten Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof), with a Coda on Two Directors]. New England Historic Genealogical Society</ref> was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and a real estate agent. Her Canadian mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a drama teacher from [[Wolfville, Nova Scotia]]. MacLaine's younger brother is filmmaker [[Warren Beatty]], who changed the spelling of his surname for his career.<ref name="60mins">{{cite web| url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shirley-maclaines-recent-lives/|title=Shirley MacLaine's Recent Lives|last=Kohn|first=David|author2=Mike Wallace |date=May 16, 2000|work=[[60 Minutes]]|publisher=[[CBS News]]|access-date= January 4, 2014}}</ref> Both were raised by their parents as [[Baptist beliefs|Baptists]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Warren_Beatty.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119131419/http://adherents.com/people/pb/Warren_Beatty.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 19, 2005 |title=The religion of Warren Beatty, actor, director|website=Adherents.com|date= August 30, 2005|access-date= March 6, 2010}}</ref> Her mother's brother-in-law was [[A. A. MacLeod]], a [[Communism|Communist]] member of the [[Ontario]] provincial legislature in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ytZ7Nf7PxaAC&q=%22uncle+Alex+MacLeod%22&pg=PA396 |title=Warren Beatty: A Private Man |author=Suzanne Finstad |page=396 |date= October 24, 2006|publisher=Three Rivers Press |isbn=9780307345295 |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buw21mxhGp8C&q=%22uncle+Alex+MacLeod%22&pg=PT288 |title=Star: The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty |author=Peter Biskind |date=May 13, 2010 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781847378392 |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>

While MacLaine was still a child, Ira Beaty<!-- spelling of Beaty here is correct --> moved the family from Richmond to [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], and then to [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]], then to [[Waverly, Virginia|Waverly]], and then back to Arlington, where he worked at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Arlington, in 1945. MacLaine played baseball on a boys team, holding the record for most home runs, which earned her the nickname "Powerhouse". During the 1950s, the family resided in the [[Dominion Hills Historic District|Dominion Hills]] section of Arlington.<ref name=VAnom>{{cite web|url= http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/CPHD/ons/hp/file84027.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dominion Hills Historic District|author1=Laura Trieschmann |author2=Paul Weishar |author3=Anna Stillner |name-list-style=amp |date= May 2011}}</ref>

As a toddler, she had weak ankles and fell over with the slightest misstep, so her mother decided to enroll her in ballet class at the Washington School of Ballet at the age of three.<ref name="Denis1980">{{cite book|last=Denis|first=Christopher |title=The films of Shirley MacLaine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PwEvAAAAMAAJ|access-date=April 11, 2011|year=1980|publisher=Citadel Press|isbn=978-0-8065-0693-7|page=14}}</ref> This was the beginning of her interest in performing. Strongly motivated by ballet, she never missed a class. In classical romantic pieces such as ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' and ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|The Sleeping Beauty]]'', she always played the boys' roles because she was the tallest in the groups of girls. MacLaine eventually was cast in a substantial female role as the fairy godmother in ''[[Cinderella (Prokofiev)|Cinderella]]'' and while warming up backstage, broke her ankle. She tightened the ribbons on her toe shoes and completed the entire performance before calling for an ambulance. Ultimately MacLaine decided against making a career of professional ballet because she had grown too tall and felt unable to perfect her technique. She explained that hers was unlike the ideal body type, lacking the requisite "beautifully constructed feet" of high arches, high insteps and a flexible ankle.<ref name="MacLaine1996">{{cite book|last=MacLaine|first=Shirley| title=My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSKjB8WWKoIC |access-date=April 11, 2011|date=November 1, 1996|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-553-57233-9}}</ref> She moved on to other forms of dancing as well as acting and musical theater.

MacLaine attended [[Washington-Liberty High School|Washington-Lee High School]] in Arlington, Virginia, where she was on the cheerleading squad and acted in school theatrical productions.