Shirley MacLaine, 86, sips a Martini while dining al fresco at Kristy’s Village Cafe in Malibu

Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine enjoyed a classic Martini with lunch while eating outside at Kristy’s Village Cafe in Malibu on Fridays.

Seeping Old Hollywood glamor with her drink of choice, the 86-year-old star took time to sip on her cocktail while talking to her assistant.

MacLaine’s foray to the beachside restaurant comes just weeks after Los Angeles reopened alfresco dining amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

While enjoying the warm weather, MacLaine wore a light green sweater, some oversized blacks, and a white peak that read “Malibu.”

The former lead actress, who won five Golden Globe Awards during her storied career, completed her outfit with brown moccasins slippers.

In November, she attributed the longevity of her six-decade-plus career to her discipline, which grew out of her ballet training as a child.

Even though I tell people the truth, I’m not a diva. That’s from my 3-year ballet training, ”she told Variety.

MacLaine continued, “I have to go all the way back to that and just have hard, honest work, with quite a bit of art, if you can collect it, thrown in. I have also stayed in the business and never thought about quitting because I wanted to pay for airline tickets to travel. ‘

After her surprise hiatus in 1954 as a stand-in on Broadway’s The Pajama Game, Shirley made her big screen debut in The Trouble with Harry, where she bonded with director Alfred Hitchcock.

‘He wouldn’t eat without me. I gained 25 pounds with that movie and I got a call from Frank Freeman, who was the head of Paramount at the time, and he said, ‘Do we just have to cancel your contract? Do you stop eating? recalled MacLaine (née MacLean Beaty).

“We would talk, and he would tell me stories, and he would become very sophisticated cynical. And I would think it was funny, and he would be glad I got it … I was only 18. I was just glad I was with him because he was so funny, and he loved everyone’s receptivity for his cynicism. I realize that now. ‘

And while the Noelle actress called Jack Lemmon “ a wonderful friend ” who she “ adored, ” she wasn’t all that keen on working with their two-time director Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Irma la Douce).

“I liked him, but I wouldn’t put him at the head of the women’s liberation line,” Shirley joked.

Known as the only female Rat Packer, MacLaine called Dean Martin “spontaneously funny” and Frank Sinatra “talented.”

“He was born with it, but he was lonely as a kid and went to music as a best friend,” Warren Beatty’s big sister said of Sinatra.

The Emmy winner also revealed that she has drafted three films – including Brad Furman’s People Not Places and Armand Kachigian’s Men of Granite – that have been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Shirley recently appeared in one of three episodes of Grammy-nominated Rufus Wainwright’s Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York, released on Audible three months ago.

MacLaine lives on a farm in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her three ratterriers, but she’s estranged from her 64-year-old daughter Sachi, who wrote a scathing tell-all titled Lucky Me in 2013.