SHIRLEY MACLAINE - SELLERS' LOVE FOR MACLAINE

SELLERS' LOVE FOR MACLAINE

Veteran actress SHIRLEY MACLAINE was once given 60 red roses by her BEING THERE co-star PETER SELLERS - because the star believed he was falling in love with her. The 74-year-old admits she was unaware of Sellers' affections during filming for the 1979 movie, but the four-times married actor was convinced he was in love. She says, "We worked on Being There and it was only afterwards that I discovered he believed he was in love with me. "He sent me five dozen roses on Valentine's Day and was overheard whispering sweet nothings to me on the phone, except I wasn't on the end of the line!"