while Winger was a fast-rising star after making 1980's Urban Cowboy. Other than talent, they had nothing in common. "Debra Winger? I didn't know the name," MacLaine told PEOPLE in a 1984 interview.

There’s a scene in “Urban Cowboy” where a black-and-blue Debra Winger looks longingly at a suddenly wiser and stoically contrite John Travolta near the end of the movie. He’d just kicked ...