:Shirley Booth

Booth was born Marjory Ford in New York City, according to her birth certificate{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=vgG1&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Marjory&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Ford&gsln_x=0&msypn__ftp=New+York&msbdy=1893&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=0&uidh=57k&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=409714&recoff=8+9+22&dbid=5157&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1|title=Ancestry Library Edition|website=Search.ancestrylibrary.com|access-date=April 10, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=vgG2&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Marjory&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Ford&gsln_x=0&msypn__ftp=New+York&msbdy=1898&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=0&uidh=57k&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=1553412&recoff=8+9+22&dbid=9089&indiv=1&ml_rpos=2|title=Ancestry Library Edition|website=Search.ancestrylibrary.com|access-date=April 10, 2018}}A copy of her birth certificate reflecting the true birth name and date is located in Booth's clippings file on the third floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. to Albert James and Virginia M. (née Wright) Ford. In the 1900 New York state census, she was listed as Thelma Booth Ford. She had one sibling, a younger sister, Jean. Her early childhood was spent in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she attended Public School 152.{{cite web| title=Actress Shirley Booth, Star of TV's Hazel, Dies| url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19921021&slug=1519816| newspaper=The Seattle Times| date=October 21, 1980}}{{cite magazine| last=Coughlan| first=Robert| title=New Queen of the Drama| magazine=Life| date=December 1, 1952| volume=33| issue=22| pages=128–141| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22New+Queen+of+the+Drama+Shirley+Booth%22&pg=PA128| issn=0024-3019}}{{cite book| last=Dunning |first=John| title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio| year=1998| section=Duffy's Tavern| publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=0-199-84045-8| page=212| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Duffy's+Tavern+situation+comedy%22&pg=PA212| access-date=2019-08-16}}

When she was age 7, Booth's family moved to Philadelphia, where she first became interested in acting after seeing a stage performance. When Booth was a teenager, her family moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where she became involved in summer stock. She made her stage debut in a production of Mother Carey's Chickens. Against her father's protests, she dropped out of school and traveled to New York City to pursue a career. She became a resident of the famed Rehearsal Club on West 53rd Street with other young theatrical hopefuls. She initially used the name Thelma Booth when her father forbade her to use the family name professionally. She eventually changed her name to Shirley Booth.

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Booth began her stage career as a teenager, acting in stock company productions. She was a prominent actress in Pittsburgh theatre for a time, performing with the Sharp Company.{{cite book| last=Conner| first=Lynne| title=Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater| year=2007| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oDN7aXyrUckC&dq=%22Sharp+en+dured+a+little+longer+by+finding+interesting+actors+like+Shirley+Booth%22&pg=PA106| isbn=978-0-8229-4330-3| page=106}} Her debut on Broadway was in the play Hell's Bells, with Humphrey Bogart, on January 26, 1925.{{cite journal| title=Hell's Bells on Broadway| journal=Playbill}} Booth first attracted major notice as the female lead in the comedy hit Three Men on a Horse, which ran from 1935 to 1937.{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana| volume=8| year=1998| publisher=Grolier Incorporated| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XooxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Three+Men+on+a+Horse%22 | isbn=978-0-7172-0130-3| page=262}} During the 1930s and 1940s, she achieved popularity in dramas, comedies and later musicals. She acted with Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1939), originated the role of Ruth Sherwood in the 1940 Broadway production of My Sister Eileen, and performed with Ralph Bellamy in Tomorrow the World (1943).{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19430516&id=rCBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6864,750769&hl=en| title=Shirley Booth Never Lets Herself Get Into Stage Roles| last=Meegan| first=Jean| date=May 16, 1943| work=St. Petersburg Times| page=14|access-date=June 28, 2015}}

Booth also starred on the popular radio series Duffy's Tavern, playing the lighthearted, wisecracking, man-crazy daughter of the unseen tavern owner on CBS radio from 1941 to 1942 and on NBC Blue from 1942 to 1943. Her then-husband, Ed Gardner, created and wrote the show as well as played its lead character Archie, the manager of the tavern; Booth left the show after the couple divorced. She auditioned unsuccessfully for the title role of Our Miss Brooks in 1948; she had been recommended by Harry Ackerman, who was to produce the show, but Ackerman told radio historian Gerald Nachman that he felt Booth was too conscious of a high school teacher's struggles to have full fun with the character's comic possibilities. Our Miss Brooks became a radio and television hit when the title role went to Eve Arden.{{cite book |last=Nachman |first=Gerald |year=1998 |title=Raised on Radio |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=hpywoSI2au4C&dq=%22Shirley+Booth+All+she+could+see+was+the+downside+of+the+underpaid+teacher%22&pg=PA218 |page=218|publisher=University of California Press | isbn=978-0-520-22303-5}} In the summer of 1949, Booth portrayed Phyllis Hogan in the situation comedy Hogan's Daughter on NBC radio.{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows |date=September 2, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0528-9 |pages=152–153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhOBCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Hogan%27s+Daughter%22+NBC&pg=PA152 |access-date=November 4, 2023 |language=en}}

Booth received her first Tony Award, for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), for her performance as Grace Woods in Goodbye, My Fancy (1948).{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19730407&id=7mEtAAAAIBAJ&pg=2073,1880168&hl=en| title=Shirley Booth Has Lots of Character| last=Buck| first=Jerry| date=April 7, 1973| work=Schenectady Gazette| page=17| access-date=June 28, 2015}} Her second Tony was for Best Actress in a Play, which she received for her widely acclaimed performance as the tortured wife Lola Delaney in the poignant drama Come Back, Little Sheba (1950). Sidney Blackmer received the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as her husband Doc.{{cite book |last1=Botto |first1=Louis |last2=Mitchell |first2=Brian Stokes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyxONc1iCJAC&dq=%22Sidney+Blackmer+winning+Tony+Awards%22&pg=PA93 |title=At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars |publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Playbill| year=2002|isbn=978-1-55783-566-6|publication-place=New York; Milwaukee, WI |page=93}}

Her success in Come Back, Little Sheba was followed by the musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), based on the popular novel, in which she played the feisty, but lovable Aunt Sissy, which proved to be another major hit. Her popularity was such that, at the time, the story was skewed from the original so that Aunt Sissy was the leading role (rather than Francie). Booth then went to Hollywood and reprised her stage role in the 1952 film version of Come Back, Little Sheba with Burt Lancaster playing Doc.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19530318&id=VDBWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6992,8104660&hl=en| title=Shirley Booth Scores In Role| last=Bean| first=Margaret| date=March 18, 1953| work=The Spokesman-Review| page=5| access-date=June 28, 2015| location=Spokane, Washington}} After that movie was completed — her first of only five films in her career{{cite book| editor-last=Monush| editor-first=Barry| title=Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toTIb1Ek2WwC&dq=%22Shirley+Booth+Thelma%22&pg=PA78| volume=1| year=2003| publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation| isbn=978-1-55783-551-2| page=78}} — she returned to New York and played Leona Samish in Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo (1952) on Broadway.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19530315&id=yYpaAAAAIBAJ&pg=2794,2707929&hl=en|title=Warm, Friend Shirley Booth Dubious About Oscar; Cites Effect On Stars| last=Parsons| first=Louella O.| date=May 15, 1953| work=St. Petersburg Times| page=11C| access-date=June 28, 2015}}

Booth received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba, becoming the first actress ever to win both a Tony and an Oscar for the same role.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19530330&id=jnBQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6609,707755&hl=en| title=Shirley Booths Adds 'Tony' To 'Oscar'| date=March 30, 1953| work=The Milwaukee Sentinel| page=8| access-date=June 28, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The film also earned Booth Best Actress awards from The Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and National Board of Review.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=886&dat=19921021&id=srE0AAAAIBAJ&pg=3325,3690380&hl=en| title=Actress Shirley Booth Dies| date=October 21, 1992| work=The Prescott Courier| page=3A| access-date=June 28, 2015}} She received her third Tony, her second in the Best Actress in a Play category, for her performance in The Time of the Cuckoo.

Booth was age 54 when she made her first movie, but she had successfully shaved almost a decade off her real age, with her publicity stating 1907 as the year of her birth. Her correct year of birth was known by only her closest associates, until her correct year of birth, 1898, was announced at the time of her death.{{harvnb|Tucker|2008| page=136}} Her second starring film, About Mrs. Leslie, a romantic drama opposite Robert Ryan, was released in 1954 to good reviews, but was poorly received by audiences.{{cite book| last=Dick| first=Bernard F.| title=Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars| year=2015| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MoeBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22About+Mrs.+Leslie%22&pg=PA93 | isbn=978-0-8131-5951-5| page=93}} In 1953, Booth had made a cameo appearance as herself in the all-star comedy/drama movie Main Street to Broadway. She spent the next few years commuting between New York and California. On Broadway, she scored personal successes in the musical By the Beautiful Sea (1954) and the comedy Desk Set (1955). Although Booth had become well known to moviegoers during this period, the movie roles for The Time of the Cuckoo (re-titled as Summertime for the film in 1955),{{cite book| last=Lentz| first=Harris M. III| title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2011| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SAqdwE8hZKsC&q=shirley+booth| year=2012| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-0-7864-9134-6| page=198}} and Desk Set (1957), both went to Katharine Hepburn.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19570212&id=3PZOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5554,1730491&hl=en| title=New School Of Acting Old Hat Says Shirley| last=Thomas| first=Bob| date=February 12, 1957|work=The Blade| page=20| access-date=June 28, 2015| location=Toledo, Ohio}}

In 1957, Booth won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work on the stage in Chicago.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19570731&id=W4geAAAAIBAJ&pg=504,4725816&hl=en| title=The Voice of Broadway| last=Dorothy| first=Kilgallen| work=Daytona Beach Morning Journal| publisher=July 21, 1957| page=4| access-date=June 28, 2015}} She returned to the Broadway stage in 1959, starring as the long-suffering title character in Marc Blitzstein's musical Juno, an adaptation of Seán O'Casey's 1924 play Juno and the Paycock.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Zz_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA340| last=Dietz| first=Dan| title=The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals| date=July 20, 2014| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield| isbn=978-1-4422-3504-5| page=340 |access-date=March 20, 2025}}{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19580715&id=WGtPAAAAIBAJ&pg=1986,2226786&hl=en| title=Actress Shirley Booth Is Getting Her First Cinema Chance At Comedy| last=Glover| first=William| date=July 15, 1958| work=Ocala Star-Banner| page=11| access-date=June 28, 2015}} In 1961, director Frank Capra approached Booth about starring in Pocketful of Miracles, an updated version of Capra's 1933 comedy-drama Lady for a Day starring May Robson. Booth informed him that she was unable to match Robson's Oscar-nominated performance in the original film and declined the role. Capra instead cast Bette Davis, who was unfavorably compared to Robson by most reviewers when the film was released.{{cite book| last=Mell| first=Eila| title=Casting Might-Have-Beens: A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to Others| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SqXAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Pocketful%22&pg=PA189 | date=January 6, 2005| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-0-7864-2017-9| page=189}}

Booth starred in two more films for Paramount Pictures, playing Dolly Gallagher Levi in the 1958 film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's romance/comedy The Matchmaker (the source text for the musical Hello, Dolly!), and to play Alma Duval in the drama Hot Spell (1958).{{cite book| last=Patinkin| first=Sheldon |title="No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance": A History of the American Musical Theater| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGfDMaE4C5EC&dq=%22The+Matchmaker%22&pg=PA370 | date=May 31, 2008| publisher=Northwestern University Press| isbn=978-0-8101-1994-9| page=370}}{{harvnb|Dick|2015|p=139}} For her performances in both films, Booth was nominated as the year's Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle.{{cite book| last1=Nash| first1=Jay Robert| last2=Ross| first2=Stanley Ralph| title=The Motion Picture Guide| volume=1-2| year=1987| publisher=Cinebooks| page=A–64}}

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In 1961, Booth was cast in the title role on the sitcom Hazel, based on Ted Key's popular single-panel cartoon from the Saturday Evening Post about the domineering yet endearing housemaid named Hazel Burke who works for the Baxter family. The series also starred Don DeFore as George Baxter, Whitney Blake as Dorothy "Missy" Baxter, and Bobby Buntrock as the Baxters' young son Harold. Upon its premiere, Hazel was an immediate hit with audiences and drew high ratings.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1979&dat=19620124&id=wosiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1681,1778765&hl=en| title=Shirley Booth's 'Hazel' One Of the Big Hits Of Year| last=Thomas| first=Bob| date=January 24, 1962| work=The Sumter Daily Item| page=4–C| access-date=June 28, 2015}}

In 1963, Booth told the Associated Press at the height of Hazel's popularity,

I liked playing Hazel the first time I read one of the scripts, and I could see all the possibilities of the character—the comedy would take care of itself. My job was to give her heart. Hazel never bores me. Besides, she's my insurance policy.

Over the course of its five-year run, Booth won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her work in the series and was nominated for a third.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19921021&id=6PYcAAAAIBAJ&pg=6855,18838&hl=en| title=Actress Shirley Booth dies; Tony, Emmy, Oscar winner| date=October 21, 1992| work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune| page=4–A| access-date=June 28, 2015}} Booth is one of the few performers to win all three major entertainment awards (Oscar, Tony, Emmy).

In 1965, NBC canceled the series.{{harvnb|Tucker|2008|p=116}} CBS picked up and retooled the series; Don DeFore (George Baxter) and Whitney Blake (Dorothy Baxter) were written out of the series, while Bobby Buntrock (Harold "Sport" Baxter) remained a cast member. Ray Fulmer was cast as Steve Baxter, the brother of DeFore's character George.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19650825&id=StlaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5421,3611246&hl=en| title=Hazel's New Family Are Baxters, Too| last=Fanning| first=Win| date=August 25, 1965| work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| access-date=June 28, 2015}} Booth, who owned the rights to the series,{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} hired Lynn Borden, a former Miss Arizona, as Steve's wife Barbara.{{cite journal| url=http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/lynn_borden.htm|title=Lynn Borden Collects Frog and Elephant Figures| last=Hall| first=Ken| journal=Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting| date=November 2007| access-date=March 23, 2018}}{{better source needed|date=October 2020}} Julia Benjamin was cast as Barbara and Steve's daughter Susie. In the retooled version, George and Dorothy Baxter have moved to Baghdad, leaving Harold to live with Steve and Barbara. Hazel remains on as the new Baxters' housekeeper. While ratings for the fifth season were still strong (Hazel ranked number 26 for the season), Booth decided to end the show due to health problems.{{harvnb|Tucker|2008|p=120}}

Shortly after the end of Hazel, Booth appeared in the television production of The Glass Menagerie that aired on the anthology series CBS Playhouse. She won critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for another Primetime Emmy Award.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19670504&id=C1cmAAAAIBAJ&pg=1209,4887835&hl=en| title=Miss Booth Is Moved By Emmy Honor| date=May 4, 1967| work=The Gettysburg Times| page=16| access-date=June 28, 2015}}

Booth's final Broadway appearances were in a revival of Noël Coward's play Hay Fever and the musical Look to the Lilies, both in 1970. In 1971, she returned to Chicago to star with Gig Young in a revival of Harvey at the Blackstone Theater.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19711022&id=-vtMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6030,7624082&hl=en| title=Two stage hits beginning tours|last=Jack|first=Gaver|date=October 22, 1971|work=Rome News-Tribune| page=7|access-date=June 28, 2015}} In 1973, Booth returned to episodic television in the ABC series A Touch of Grace. The series was based on the British sitcom For the Love of Ada.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19730125&id=aXMtAAAAIBAJ&pg=3113,3255940&hl=en|title=Shirley Booth Lured Into New TV Series|date=January 25, 1973|work=Reading Eagle|page=37|access-date=June 28, 2015}} A Touch of Grace was canceled after one season.{{cite book|last=Leszczak|first=Bob|title=Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979: A Complete Guide|date=November 2, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LaUqwWnpHLwC&dq=%22A+Touch+of+Grace+Grace%22&pg=PA188 |publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9305-0|page=188}}

In 1974, Booth provided the voice for the character of Mrs. Claus in the animated television special The Year Without a Santa Claus.{{cite book|last=Cox| first=Jim| title=The Great Radio Sitcoms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLhkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+Year+Without+a+Santa+Claus%22&pg=PA103|date=September 4, 2007| publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3146-5|page=103}} It was Booth's final acting role after which she retired to her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

On November 23, 1929, Booth married Ed Gardner, who later gained fame as the creator and host of the radio series Duffy's Tavern, with Booth originating the role of man-hungry Miss Duffy in the series. They divorced in 1942. She married William H. Baker Jr., a corporal in the U.S. Army, the following year. Booth and Baker remained married until his death from heart disease in 1951. She never remarried and had no children from either marriage.

For her contributions to the film industry, Booth has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6850 Hollywood Boulevard.{{cite web|last=Folkart|first=Burt A.|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Shirley Booth|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/shirley-booth|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}

After retiring from acting in 1974, Booth moved to North Chatham, Massachusetts, where she lived with her pet poodle and two cats. She maintained contact with her friends via telephone and spent her time painting and doing needlework. In November 1979, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/19/archives/theater-hall-of-fame-enshrines-51-artists-great-things-and-blank.html|title=Theater Hall of Fame Enshrines 51 Artists|first=Laurie|last=Johnston|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 19, 1979|access-date=March 23, 2018}} Booth did not attend the ceremony, and the award was accepted on her behalf by Celeste Holm.

By 1976, Booth's health began to decline. She reportedly suffered a stroke that caused mobility issues and blindness. After her death, Booth's sister said she had broken her hip in 1979, which restricted her mobility. On October 16, 1992,

Booth died at the age of 94 at her home in North Chatham.{{cite web|last=Flint|first=Peter B.|title=Shirley Booth, Star of TV, Radio, Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 94|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/21/obituaries/shirley-booth-star-of-tv-radio-stage-and-screen-is-dead-at-94.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 21, 1992|access-date=August 21, 2021}} After a private memorial service, Booth was interred in the Baker family plot in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Montclair, New Jersey.

• List of actors with Academy Award nominations
• Triple Crown of Acting

• {{cite book | last=Tucker | first=David C. | title=Shirley Booth: A Biography and Career Record | location=Jefferson, NC | publisher=McFarland| year=2008 | isbn=978-0-7864-3600-2}}
• {{cite book | last=Manago | first=Jim |author2=Manago, Donna | title=Love is the Reason for It All: The Shirley Booth Story | location=Albany, GA | publisher=BearManorMedia | year=2008 | isbn=978-1-59393-146-9}}
• {{cite book | last=Manago | first=Jim | title=For Bill His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story | location=U.S.| publisher=Jim & Donna Manago Books | year=2010 |isbn=978-0-615-42181-0}}

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