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.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2014-feb-12-la-et-mn-shirley-temple-life-fun-facts-20140211-story.html#:~:text=Temple's%20mother%20styled%20her%20daughter's,kept%20my%20head%20on%20straight.%E2%80%9D

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  

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/whos-who-on-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-album-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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