Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist

               

      SHIRLEY MACLAINE April 24, 1934        BARBRA STREISAND April 24, 1942 Cosmic fabulosity.

  But. if you're thinkin' 'bout being my baby, it don't matter if you're black or white.

Rosalind Russell in A Majority of One (1961, Warner Bros.) Shirley MacLaine in My Geisha (1962, Paramount) Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance...

Lupe Velez in East is West (1930, Universal) Myrna Loy in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, MGM) Dorothy Lamour (with John Howard) in Disputed ...

More interesting than the story of the actual filming of the notorious 1963 version of Cleopatra (to us, anyway), is the twisted path that ...