Hollywood icon Shirley MacLaine is on the lookout for a new personal assistant who can fulfil a very specific requirement – to enjoy a ‘cocktail’ with her every evening.
The 90-year-old actress – who recently released a photographic memoir – appears to be in a particularly reflective mood of late, with insiders telling DailyMail.com that whoever lands the job would need to be able to ‘discuss her movies and career’ while they sip their tipples.
With a celebrated career that has seen her shine bright onscreen as well as on Broadway, Shirley certainly has an abundance of tales to share with a future staffer.
‘Shirley recently asked friends if they could recommend a personal assistant for her,’ the insider exclusively revealed. ‘She gave her pals a short list of requirements for the job.
‘The main qualifications she has required are that the applicants need to be available for a cocktail with her at 5pm, and then be able to discuss her movies and career. Night after night.’
Naturally, the Steel Magnolias actress was asked by pals if there were any other qualities she would love her future assistant to have.
Hollywood icon Shirley MacLaine is on the lookout for a new personal assistant who can ‘have a cocktail’ with her every evening
Whoever lands the job would need to be able to ‘discuss her movies and career’ while they enjoy their tipples
The source added: ‘When one of her circle asked if there was anything else involved, the Oscar winner shrugged and said she thought that would be enough.’
On top of getting to spend quality time enjoying a drink with the acting legend, the actress has promised to be ‘very generous’ when it to comes to pay – which will be negotiable.
Shirley won’t be the first star to pay a handsome figure in order to compensate an assistant with an unusual demand.
Rap legend Snoop Dogg made headlines when it was revealed that he has a full time blunt roller who he pays $50,000 per year.
Pop diva Mariah Carey was reported to have demanded a ‘staircase assistant’ when making an appearance on British comedian Alan Carr’s The Friday Night Project.
Lady Gaga allegedly demanded her former friend and assistant Jennifer O’Neill be on call 24/7 – and even sleep in the same bed.
Robert de Niro’s requests for his former PA Graham Chase Robinson were not well received, with the actor forced to pay her after it was revealed in court that he treated her like an ‘office wife’ – asking her to perform menial tasks including washing his sheets and scratching his back.
Earlier this year, Shirley made headlines over the extremely candid revelations she shared in her photographic memoir, The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime.
A source told DailyMail.com: ‘When one of her circle asked if there was anything else involved… she thought that would be enough’
A source explained: ‘The applicants need to be available for a cocktail with her at 5pm, and then be able to discuss her movies and career. Night after night’
She divulged all about her love life, which has seen her linked to famous names from Hollywood heartthrob Robert Mitchum to Soviet filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky.
Many of her affairs overlapped with her open marriage to businessman Steve Parker, who was her husband from 1952 until their divorce in 1984.
Earlier this year, Shirley, 90, made headlines due to the extremely candid revelations in her photographic memoir, The Wall Of Life: Pictures And Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime
However, the Terms of Endearment actress also noted that not every star she liked reciprocated her feelings.
Under a picture of herself with Morgan Freeman, she wrote: ‘I propositioned him and he turned me down.’
Morgan achieved his Hollywood breakthrough in 1989 with a string of movies including the drama Driving Miss Daisy, for which he earned an Oscar for best actor.
At that stage, he was already with his second wife Myrna Colley-Lee, whom he was married to from 1984 until their divorce in 2010.
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.
Although Morgan and Shirley have both been Hollywood staples for over 35 years, and he is just three years her junior, they have never starred in a movie together.
Elsewhere in the book, Shirley wrote that she slept with all her leading men – except for Jack Lemmon and Jack Nicholson.
She also waxed rhapsodic about Nicolas Cage, her costar in the 1994 movie Guarding Tess, but noted they never had a sexual connection.
