Watch Patina Miller, Sutton Foster, Anna Kendrick & Karen Olivo Celebrate Shirley MacLaine at the Kennedy Center Honors

Lord help us, we love her! Screen and stage star Shirley MacLaine was celebrated at the 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors by a bevy of Broadway leading ladies including Sutton Foster, Patina Miller, Karen Olivo and Anna Kendrick, broadcast on December 30. The performance featured a medley of songs inspired by MacLaine’s career on stage and in movie musicals including numbers from The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity, Irma la Douce, Seesaw and more! Check out how moved the Downton Abbey star is by the young performers paying her tribute (and pay attention at 5:23 when the icon is mouthing the words along to Kendrick singing “It’s Not How You Start”)! Oh yes, we are crying too.