Yesterday since the Fox Movie Channel was showing CAN-CAN, they aired a two part interview with Shirley MacLaine so I recorded those and watched them while I ate lunch. She talked about the infamous visit by Nikita Kruschev and his wife, the special lunch prepared at the Fox commisary for 400 of Hollywood's elite (I hadn't heard about this), and, of course, the famous story of the two Russians being taken to the soundstage where CAN-CAN was filming where the dance was done for them. (And which they found immoral.)
Shirley said her dress weighed 75 pounds, and unlike during filming, they danced the whole number from beginning to end and she thought she was going to have a heart attack before it was over. She also talked about some of her other famous films, but, naturally, it was a very surface interview that didn't delve into any of the films very much