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DAUGHTER Steffi is a small-sized scene stealer who mimics her mother's every expression and gesture. Shirley's now in "Career.'
matinee and the night performance of the Broadway musical, 'Me And Juliet,' and I came out with a husband! It was love at first sight for the both of us. I broke my engagement with another fellow immediately."
Steve was handsome, highly intelligent young actor William T. Parker (known to everyone as Steve). Shirley recalls that when she and Steve married that September while she was making "The Trouble With Harry" in Vermont, "there were times when we didn't have enough to buy three carrots, let alone a three-carat diamond. But like most women, Southern ones particularly, I never passed a jewelry store without stopping and looking and wishing. I never told Steve of my hopes and he never promised that someday I would have that three-carat diamond. I guess it was just one of those happy, unspoken agreements that take place between two people who are very much in love."
Today, Shirley has that handsome diamond, the only jewelry she wears. But earlier, in Hollywood, Steve chaffed at his inability to find a release for his talents. As much of an individualist as Shirley, he could never be happy as Mr.
Shirley MacLaine. His heart was in Japan, a country, he felt, with tremendous untapped potentials as a film center. Steve's interest in Japan started when he was a child. His father was in the diplomatic service and it was during this period that young Steve learned the language. A paratrooper in World War II, he landed in Tokyo and was official interpreter for his group. And when he returned to make his career as a producer of documentary films in Japan, Shirley understood, for she knows what the country means to him. He has won a Brussels Film Festival Award for a documentary on geisha girls and recently he brought over Japan's top stars for a brilliant TV hour show.
Completely honest, Shirley does not minimize the thousands of miles which divide her from her husband. It is no madcap, zany character who says with deep pathos: "The only way I can bear it is to behave as though he were coming home to dinner every night. Our baby first saw Daddy when she was nine months old after he'd spent a year in Japan.
"I'm just an old-fashioned girl who believes that a double bed makes for a happy marriage. Yet we're separated, even
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