Editing Cybill Shepherd (section)

===Celebrity===
Her first film was ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'', also starring [[Jeff Bridges]] and [[Timothy Bottoms]]. The film became a critical and box office hit, earning eight Academy Awards nominations and winning two. Shepherd was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1972, Shepherd was cast opposite [[Charles Grodin]] in ''[[The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)|The Heartbreak Kid]]''. She played Kelly, a young woman for whom Grodin's character falls while on his honeymoon in Miami. Directed by [[Elaine May]] and written by [[Neil Simon]], it was another critical and box office hit.<ref>{{Rotten Tomatoes | id=m/heartbreak_kid/ | title=The Heartbreak Kid}}</ref> Also in 1972, Shepherd posed as a [[Kodak]] Girl for the [[camera]] manufacturer's then-ubiquitous cardboard store poster displays.<ref>{{cite book | first=Nancy Martha | last=West | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nuae4VHlyrYC&q=cybill%20shepherd%20kodak&pg=PA53 | title=Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia | publisher=University Press of Virginia | location=[[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]] and London | year=2000 | page=53 | isbn=0-8139-1959-2 | access-date=April 5, 2011}}</ref>

In 1974, Shepherd again teamed up with Peter Bogdanovich for the title role in ''[[Daisy Miller (film)|Daisy Miller]]'', based on the [[Henry James]] novella. The film—a period piece set in Europe—was a [[box office]] failure. That same year, she launched a singing career, releasing a studio album ''Cybill Does It...To Cole Porter'' for MCA Records.<ref name="Cybill Shepherd Music Discography">{{cite web |url=http://cybillshepherd.co.uk/discography.htm |title=Cybill Shepherd Music Discography |date=February 18, 2009 |access-date=April 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040215041215/http://cybillshepherd.co.uk/discography.htm |archive-date=February 15, 2004 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> It was panned by ''[[Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]], who wrote: "Her voice is surprisingly pleasant, but you'd never know how these songs sparkle. Since [[Cole Porter|Cole]] didn't like to . . . do it with (or 'to') women very much, maybe the 'do' is as hostile as it sounds."<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies}}</ref>

In 1975, she made ''[[At Long Last Love]]'', a [[film musical]] directed by Bogdanovich.  The film received scathing negative reviews, named by many as the worst major film of the year, and Shepherd herself received negative reviews.<ref> https://movie-film-review.com/devharsh.asp?act=2&param=840</ref><ref name="peter">Gallagher, John. [http://www.nbrmp.org/features/PeterBogdanovich.cfm ''August 2004: Peter Bogdanovich''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206113712/http://www.nbrmp.org/features/PeterBogdanovich.cfm |date=December 6, 2012 }} [[National Board of Review]], accessed June 4, 2013</ref>

Shepherd returned with good reviews for her supporting work in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' (1976). According to Shepherd, Scorsese had requested a "Cybill Shepherd type" for the role. She portrayed Betsy, a volunteer for a presidential candidate with whom [[Robert De Niro]]'s character, Travis Bickle, becomes infatuated.

A series of less-successful roles followed, including ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1979 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1979), a remake of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s [[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|1938 film]]. Already sitting in on an acting class taught by [[Stella Adler]], Shepherd was offered work at a dinner theater in [[Norfolk, Virginia]], and turned to friend [[Orson Welles]] for advice. He encouraged her to get experience on stage in front of an audience, anywhere but Los Angeles or New York City,<ref>{{cite news | first=Roger | last=Ebert | author-link=Roger Ebert | date=March 14, 1989 | title=Many sides of Cybill Shepherd revealed | work=[[Observer–Reporter]] | location=[[Washington, Pennsylvania]]}}</ref> away from the harsh big-city critics<ref>{{cite magazine | first=Deirdre | last=Donahue | date=November 4, 1985 | title=Cybill's Style | magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] | url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-cybills-style-vol-24-no-19/}}</ref> so she moved back to her home town of Memphis to work in regional theatre.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bykowsky, Stuart|date=January 9, 1985|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wQpZAAAAIBAJ&dq=cybill%20shepherd%201982&pg=6962%2C1909727|title=Cybill Shepherd: 'There is a freakdom to beauty'|work= [[Evening Independent]]|access-date=April 5, 2011}}</ref>

In 1981, Shepherd appeared in a play directed by [[Orson Bean]], ''[[Vanities]]'', staged in [[St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri]].<ref>"Cybill Sherpherd at Westport." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, February 01, 1981, p 33.</ref>