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Greece | Northern England
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Best Music Original Song | 1990 | Marilyn
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1990 | Pauline
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 1990 | Marvin
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1990
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1990 | Pauline
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television | 1990 | Marvin
1989 | Alan
The name of the exotic Greek locale in Mykonos made famous by this movie is Agios Ioannis Beach situated at Agios Ioannis Bay. The location has been nick-named the "Shirley Valentine Beach".
A rarity in film, Pauline Collins' character Shirley sporadically engages the cinema audience by looking straight into the camera as she voices her thoughts, a technique called "breaking the fourth wall". Curiously enough, the film's director Lewis Gilbert earlier directed Michael Caine as the titular Alfie (1966) in which he also spoke his thoughts directly to the viewer.
At the dinner table when Shirley asks Jeanette where she thinks her Jacuzzi came from in the English version she says "MFI" but the U.S. version it is dubbed to "Kmart."
Joanna Lumley's cameo only took a day to film.
The movie was made by the same team that brought Educating Rita (1983) to the screen. The film was the second of two collaborations of playwright Willy Russell and director Lewis Gilbert who had six years earlier made Educating Rita (1983).
"Shirley Valentine: I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?"
"Costas Caldes: Boat is boat, fuck is fuck."
