Helen and Bill disappear down the great internet rabbit hole of famous Shirleys to discover a treasure trove of fascinating facts about Shirley MacLaine, Temple, and Bassey, via Big Daddy, George Formby and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Shirley MacLaine meets Fidel Castro.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/photos/shirley-maclaine-years-46804747/image-46808414
Shirley Temple’s mother always gave her 56 curls, not 55, not 57.
The Partridge Family opening theme, starring Shirley Jones and her real life step son, David Cassidy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks, Clash of the Titans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDBd6-SGo4
Shirley Bassey performs Burn My Candle, considered too saucy for the BBC who banned it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIdxoo4QcI
Bowie’s Space Oddity set to pictures of Apollo 11’s moon landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVYwyWYpkU
George Formby performs My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock, too euphemistic for the BBC who banned it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQ6Wmbi5ig
The Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band iconic cover
Trailer for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Writer, Tennesse Williams purportedly hated the movie version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzogcorjLOI
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