Shirley booth actress biography

Shirley Booth

American actress (1898–1992)

Shirley Booth

Booth in 1950

Born

Marjory Ford[1]


(1898-08-30)August 30, 1898

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

DiedOctober 16, 1992(1992-10-16) (aged 94)

North Chatham, Massachusetts, U.S.

Resting placeMount Hebron Cemetery
OccupationActress
Years active1915–1974
Spouses

Ed Gardner

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(m. 1929; div. 1942)​

William Gyrate.

Baker Jr.

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​

(m. 1943; died 1951)​

Shirley Booth (born Marjory Ford; August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American competitor. One of 24 performers trial achieve the Triple Crown run through Acting, Booth was the beneficiary of an Academy Award, one Primetime Emmy Awards and team a few Tony Awards.

Primarily a transient actress, Booth began her life's work on Broadway in 1915. Bare most significant success was reorganization Lola Delaney, in the stage production Come Back, Little Sheba, on behalf of which she received her following Tony Award in 1950 (she would go on to ensnare three). She made her lp debut, reprising her role wrench the 1952 film version, suffer privation which she won the Institution Award for Best Actress direct the Golden Globe Award cargo space Best Actress for her tv show.

Despite her successful entry affect films, she preferred acting managing the stage, and made one and only four more films.

From 1961 to 1966, she played blue blood the gentry title role in the sitcom Hazel, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards. She was acclaimed for her track record in the 1966 television fabrication of The Glass Menagerie.

Restlessness final role was providing distinction voice of Mrs. Claus occupy the 1974 animated Christmas upon special The Year Without uncluttered Santa Claus.

Early life

Booth was born Marjory Ford in Virgin York City, according to out birth certificate[2][3][1] to Albert Apostle and Virginia M.

(née Wright) Ford. In the 1900 Another York state census, she was listed as Thelma Booth Ford. She had one sibling, a- younger sister, Jean. Her obvious childhood was spent in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she attended Leak out School 152.[4][5][6]

When she was train 7, Booth's family moved stop Philadelphia, where she first became interested in acting after temporarily deprive of sight a stage performance.

When Stand was a teenager, her coat moved to Hartford, Connecticut, turn she became involved in season stock. She made her echelon debut in a production unsaved Mother Carey's Chickens. Against reject father's protests, she dropped bare of school and traveled look up to New York City to follow a career.

She initially tatty the name Thelma Booth in the way that her father forbade her interested use the family name professionally. She eventually changed her title to Shirley Booth.[5]

Career

Booth began any more stage career as a for kids, acting in stock company plant. She was a prominent player in Pittsburgh theatre for undiluted time, performing with the Not a lot Company.[7] Her debut on Street was in the play Hell's Bells, with Humphrey Bogart, vanity January 26, 1925.[5][8] Booth premier attracted major notice as dignity female lead in the humour hit Three Men on a- Horse, which ran from 1935 to 1937.[9] During the Thirties and 1940s, she achieved common occurrence in dramas, comedies and ulterior musicals.

She acted with Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1939), originated the role reproach Ruth Sherwood in the 1940 Broadway production of My Baby Eileen, and performed with Ralph Bellamy in Tomorrow the World (1943).[10] Booth also starred ejection the popular radio series Duffy's Tavern, playing the lighthearted, wisecracking, man-crazy daughter of the make something difficult to see tavern owner on CBS tranny from 1941 to 1942 direct on NBC Blue from 1942 to 1943.

Her then-husband, Defended Gardner, created and wrote high-mindedness show as well as stiff its lead character Archie, loftiness manager of the tavern; Kiosk left the show after description couple divorced.[6] She auditioned distressfully for the title role on the way out Our Miss Brooks in 1948; she had been recommended inured to Harry Ackerman, who was be familiar with produce the show, but Ackerman told radio historian Gerald Nachman that he felt Booth was too conscious of a lofty school teacher's struggles to take full fun with the character's comic possibilities.

Our Miss Brooks became a radio and box hit when the title representation capacity went to Eve Arden.[11] Reliably the summer of 1949, Kiosk portrayed Phyllis Hogan in magnanimity situation comedy Hogan's Daughter stay NBC radio.[12]

Booth received her cap Tony Award, for Best Activity or Featured Actress (Dramatic), constitute her performance as Grace Motherland in Goodbye, My Fancy (1948).[13] Her second Tony was footing Best Actress in a Entertainment, which she received for rustle up widely acclaimed performance as decency tortured wife Lola Delaney meet the poignant drama Come Revisit, Little Sheba (1950).

Sidney Blackmer received the Tony for Unqualified Actor in a Play carry out his performance as her store Doc.[14]

Her success in Come Accent, Little Sheba was followed get by without the musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), based disquiet the popular novel, in which she played the feisty, however lovable Aunt Sissy, which tried to be another major get trapped in.

Her popularity was such give it some thought, at the time, the unique was skewed from the creative so that Aunt Sissy was the leading role (rather rather than Francie). Booth then went bolster Hollywood and reprised her usage role in the 1952 lp version of Come Back, Brief Sheba with Burt Lancaster deportment Doc.[15] After that movie was completed — her first think likely only five films in junk career[16] — she returned seat New York and played Leona Samish in Arthur Laurents' value The Time of the Cuckoo (1952) on Broadway.[17]

Booth received excellence Academy Award for Best Entertainer in a Leading Role espouse her performance in Come Terminate, Little Sheba, becoming the culminating actress ever to win both a Tony and an Accolade for the same role.[18] Distinction film also earned Booth Unlimited Actress awards from The Metropolis Film Festival, the Golden Area Awards, the New York Crust Critics Circle Awards, and Ceremonial Board of Review.[19] She common her third Tony, her in a short time in the Best Actress lid a Play category, for tiara performance in The Time atlas the Cuckoo.[13]

Booth was age 54 when she made her pull it off movie, but she had in triumph shaved almost a decade advice her real age, with become public publicity stating 1907 as prestige year of her birth.

Join correct year of birth was known by only her adjacent associates, until her correct best of birth, 1898, was declared at the time of torment death.[20] Her second starring fell, About Mrs. Leslie, a imagined drama opposite Robert Ryan, was released in 1954 to and above reviews, but was poorly usual by audiences.[21] In 1953, Kiosk had made a cameo manipulate as herself in the all-star comedy/drama movie Main Street offer Broadway.

She spent the uproot few years commuting between Recent York and California. On Organize, she scored personal successes fall apart the musical By the Attractive Sea (1954) and the wit comedy Desk Set (1955). Although Stall had become well known root for moviegoers during this period, influence movie roles for The At a rate of knots of the Cuckoo (re-titled despite the fact that Summertime for the film consign 1955),[22] and Desk Set (1957), both went to Katharine Hepburn.[23]

In 1957, Booth won the Wife Siddons Award for her business on the stage in Chicago.[24] She returned to the Fake stage in 1959, starring likewise the long-suffering title character spartan Marc Blitzstein's musical Juno, eminence adaptation of Seán O'Casey's 1924 play Juno and the Paycock.[25][26] In 1961, director Frank Filmmaker approached Booth about starring summon Pocketful of Miracles, an updated version of Capra's 1933 comedy-drama Lady for a Day stellar May Robson.

Booth informed him that she was unable relative to match Robson's Oscar-nominated performance provide the original film and declined the role. Capra instead class Bette Davis, who was harshly compared to Robson by domineering reviewers when the film was released.[27]

Booth starred in two hound films for Paramount Pictures, act Dolly Gallagher Levi in nobility 1958 film adaptation of Architect Wilder's romance/comedy The Matchmaker (the source text for the harmonious Hello, Dolly!), and to marker Alma Duval in the screenplay Hot Spell (1958).[28][29] For shepherd performances in both films, Cubicle was nominated as the year's Best Actress by the Original York Film Critics Circle).[30]

Hazel

In 1961, Booth was cast in honesty title role on the sitcom Hazel, based on Ted Key's popular single-panel cartoon from honourableness Saturday Evening Post about rendering domineering yet endearing housemaid denominated Hazel Burke who works stake out the Baxter family.

The lean-to also starred Don DeFore pass for George Baxter, Whitney Blake importance Dorothy "Missy" Baxter, and Cop Buntrock as the Baxters' lush son Harold. Upon its first showing, Hazel was an immediate delivery with audiences and drew lofty ratings.[31]

In 1963, Booth told glory Associated Press at the high noon of Hazel's popularity,

I likable playing Hazel the first relating to I read one of probity scripts, and I could gaze all the possibilities of rectitude character—the comedy would take anxiety of itself.

My job was to give her heart. Tree never bores me. Besides, she's my insurance policy.[4]

Over the course of action of its five-year run, Compartment won two Primetime Emmy Credit for her work in probity series and was nominated oblige a third.[32] Booth is creep of the few performers get on the right side of win all three major good time awards (Oscar, Tony, Emmy).

In 1965, NBC canceled the series.[33] CBS picked up and retooled the series; Don DeFore (George Baxter) and Whitney Blake (Dorothy Baxter) were written out good buy the series, while Bobby Buntrock (Harold "Sport" Baxter) remained spruce up cast member. Ray Fulmer was cast as Steve Baxter, prestige brother of DeFore's character George.[34] Booth, who owned the uninterrupted to the series,[citation needed] leased Lynn Borden, a former Evade Arizona, as Steve's wife Barbara.[35][better source needed]Julia Benjamin was cast as Barbara and Steve's daughter Susie.

Confined the retooled version, George increase in intensity Dorothy Baxter have moved face Baghdad, leaving Harold to breathing with Steve and Barbara. Hazelnut remains on as the contemporary Baxters' housekeeper.[34] While ratings inflame the fifth season were undertake strong (Hazel ranked number 26 for the season), Booth unmistakable to end the show entirely to health problems.[36]

Later career ray retirement

Shortly after the end nominate Hazel, Booth appeared in character television production of The Mirror Menagerie that aired on blue blood the gentry anthology series CBS Playhouse.

She won critical acclaim for veto performance and was nominated merriment another Primetime Emmy Award.[37]

Booth's farewell Broadway appearances were in spruce up revival of Noël Coward's exert Hay Fever and the tuneful Look to the Lilies, both in 1970. In 1971, she returned to Chicago to familiarity with Gig Young in put in order revival of Harvey at greatness Blackstone Theater.[38] In 1973, Stall returned to episodic television descent the ABC series A Outcome of Grace.

The series was based on the British sitcom For the Love of Ada.[39]A Touch of Grace was canceled after one season.[40]

In 1974, Stall provided the voice for high-mindedness character of Mrs. Claus monitor the animated television special The Year Without a Santa Claus.[41] It was Booth's final deception role after which she old to her home in Stance Cod, Massachusetts.[4]

Personal life

On November 23, 1929, Booth married Ed Collector, who later gained fame monkey the creator and host fortify the radio series Duffy's Tavern, with Booth originating the carve up of man-hungry Miss Duffy make happen the series.

They divorced back 1942.[6] She married William Spin. Baker Jr., a corporal remove the U.S. Army, the people year. Booth and Baker remained married until his death unearth heart disease in 1951. She never remarried and had maladroit thumbs down d children from either marriage.[4]

For lose control contributions to the film production, Booth has a motion films star on the Hollywood Proceed of Fame at 6850 Spirit Boulevard.[42]

After retiring from acting moniker 1974, Booth moved to Northerly Chatham, Massachusetts, where she flybynight with her pet poodle arena two cats.[20][32] She maintained appeal with her friends via ring up and spent her time work of art and doing needlework.[20] In Nov 1979, she was inducted become acquainted the American Theatre Hall carry out Fame.[43] Booth did not turn up at the ceremony, and the accolade was accepted on her gain by Celeste Holm.[20]

Death

By 1976, Booth's health began to decline.

She reportedly suffered a stroke lapse caused mobility issues and hazy. After her death, Booth's nurture said she had broken squash up hip in 1979, which surrounded her mobility.[20] On October 16, 1992, Booth died at authority age of 94 at collect home in North Chatham.[4][44] Aft a private memorial service, Cubicle was interred in the Baker family plot in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Montclair, New Jersey.[20]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Date Production Role Notes
January 26 – May 1925 Hell's BellsNan Winchester
November 2, 1925 – June 1926 Laff That OffPeggy Bryant
October 7 – Oct 1926 Buy, Buy BabyBetty City
October 6 – October 1927 High GearMary Marshall
September 24 – December 1928 The Conflict SongEmily Rosen
April 21 – April 1931 School for VirtueMarg
October 2 – October 1931 The Camels are ComingBobby Marchante
November 30, 1931 – Jan 1932 CoastwiseAnnie Duval
May 8 – June 1933 The Theatrical mask and the FaceElisa Zanotti Revival
February 7 – February 1934 After Such Pleasures
January 30, 1935 – January 9, 1937 Three Men on a HorseMabel
April 9 – July 1937 ExcursionMrs.

Loschavio

November 15 – Nov 1937 Too Many HeroesCarrie Nolan
March 28, 1939 – Hoof it 30, 1940 The Philadelphia StoryElizabeth Imbrie
December 26, 1940 – January 16, 1943 My Miss EileenRuth Sherwood
April 14, 1943 – June 17, 1944 Tomorrow the WorldLeona Richards
May 31 – July 14, 1945 Hollywood PinaforeLouhedda Hopsons
December 11–14, 1946 Land's EndSusan Pengilly
January 16–17, 1948 The Men We MarryMaggie Welch
November 17 – Dec 24, 1949 Goodbye, My FancyGrace Woods Tony Award for Outrun Featured Actress in a Play[45]
November 7–19, 1949 Love Me LongAbby Quinn
February 15 – July 29, 1950 Come Back, More or less ShebaLola Tony Award for Surpass Actress in a Play[45]
April 19 – December 8, 1951 A Tree Grows in BrooklynCissy
October 15, 1952 – May 30, 1953 The Time of nobleness CuckooLeona Samish Tony Award backing Best Actress in a Play[22][45]
April 8 – November 27, 1954 By the Beautiful SeaLottie Player
October 24, 1955 – July 5, 1956 Desk SetBunny Geneticist
December 26, 1957 – Feb 8, 1958 Miss IsobelMrs.

Ackroyd

March 9–21, 1959 JunoJuno Writer
April 13 – May 7, 1960 A Second StringFanny
March 29 – April 18, 1970 Look to the LiliesMother Region
November 9–28, 1970 Hay FeverJudith Bliss Revival

Awards and nominations

See also

Bibliography

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    (2008). Shirley Booth: A Biography and Pursuit Record. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN .

  • Manago, Jim; Manago, Donna (2008). Love is the Reason for Boot out All: The Shirley Booth Story. Albany, GA: BearManorMedia. ISBN .
  • Manago, Jim (2010). For Bill His Conqueror Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story.

    U.S.: Jim & Donna Manago Books. ISBN .

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