As the older sister of Warren Beatty, you’d expect Shirley MacLaine to have a bit of a wild streak.
But even the great Hollywood lothario might blush at her latest confessions.
The Oscar-winning actress, now 76, has revealed she once slept with three men in the same day.
She also told U.S. chat show queen Oprah Winfrey that she had a 30-year “open marriage” with her former husband, producer Steve Parker.
Miss MacLaine claimed the code of silence in Hollywood’s heyday meant most of her illicit trysts slipped under the radar.
“I had many love affairs - and a lot of awful lovers. I wasn’t into “sexscapades” but I did try it once. I had three people in one day,” she told a shocked Oprah.
“It was on a political campaign, where everybody was doing the same thing,” she added, laughing. “I just didn’t want to be left out.”
She divorced from her only husband in 1982, but she said they remained on good terms.
“I had an open relationship with my husband. I had other affairs and so did he. But we were very good friends. I would never marry again.
“I had quite a relationship with Robert Mitchum. And Yves Montand. I was attracted to some of the directors.”
As well as Mitchum, one of America’s greatest tough guy actors, and singer and actor Montand, the actress romanced Danny Kaye and former Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock.
But Miss MacLaine was keeping tight-lipped about some of her other lovers.
“Everyone knows that what happened on a set stays on a set. No one talked,” she said.
Despite her sexual transgressions, the Terms of Endearment star went on to say that sleeping around was “not her style” and she was a “serial monogamist” - and had to be emotionally involved with men to have sex with them.
When quizzed about being attracted to her long list of leading men, Miss MacLaine said: “I wasn’t attracted to Jack Lemmon. He was a sweetheart.
“He didn’t have that dangerous, complicated sexual thing that I liked helping the man I was attracted to figure out. Jack Nicholson had too much of it. He is authentically dangerous.”
She also spoke about hanging out with her old “Rat Pack” co-stars like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
“The brilliance of old Hollywood, particularly with the live performers, is they always told the truth about everything. There was authenticity about their lives, about what they were afraid of. I was 19, 20, 21. I didn’t know who they were.”
She joked: “They treated me like their mascot and picked up their mess.”
She added that the late Elizabeth Taylor was her “oldest friend in Hollywood”.
“I met her when I was 21. She was wonderful and very loving,” she added.
She was appearing on Oprah to promote her new book, “I’m Over That And Other Confessions”.
The actress, famous for her views on New Age spirituality and reincarnation, is now happy living alone with her rat terrier, Terry. “I’d rather have a good, funny, loyal dog than a man,” she wrote in her book. - Daily Mail