Overview
Born : August 30, 1898 in New York City, New York, USA
Died : October 16, 1992 in North Chatham, Massachusetts, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name : Thelma Marjorie Ford
Height : 5' 1½" (1.56 m)
Character entertainer Shirley Booth could play everything in all aspects of the big time, regardless of whether it was Miss Duffy the Tavern Owner's Man Crazy Daughter on "Duffy's Tavern", the cheeky servant on TV's Hazel (1961) or the terrible lady in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). For the people who just know her through her sitcom, it very well may be difficult to accept she was a carefully prepared dramatic veteran, having showed up on Broadway from 1925-70. She was exceptionally viewed as a phase entertainer and positions as one of the head gifts of the twentieth century theater.
Brought into the world to Albert James Ford and his better half Virginia Martha Wright, she had one sister, Jean Valentine Ford (1914-2010).
Made her Broadway debut in the play "Hellfire's Bells" inverse Humphrey Bogart (26 January 1925).
Referred to for some time as Thelma Booth Ford.
Is buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Montclair, New Jersey.
Depicted Miss Duffy on "Duffy's Tavern" (CBS Radio: 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Radio: 1942-1943).
One of just nine entertainers to have won both the Tony and the Oscar for a similar job in front of an audience and film. The others are Yul Brynner (The King and I (1956)), Joel Gray (Cabaret (1972)), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady (1964)), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker (1962)), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons (1966)), José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)), Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses (1968)) and Viola Davis (Fences (2016)).
Turned into the fourth entertainer to get the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award in 1953, three Tony Awards (1949, 1950 and 1953) and two Emmy Awards (1962, 1963).
Won three Tony Awards: in 1949, as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "Farewell, My Fancy;" in 1950, as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Return, Little Sheba," a job she reproduced in an Oscar-winning execution in the film adaptation of a similar name, Come Back, Little Sheba (1952); and in 1953, as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Season of the Cuckoo."
First entertainer to win an honor at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for a similar job (Come Back, Little Sheba (1952))
Is referenced by Jason Alexander's personality "George Constanza" on the Seinfeld (1989) episode "The Subway" (1992).
Shirley Booth is one of 4 entertainers to get Academy Award selections for playing a similar person in movie variants of their plays. The other 3 entertainers are: Ruth Hussey in The Philadelphia Story (1940), Rosalind Russell in My Sister Eileen (1942) and Katharine Hepburn in Summertime (1955). Stall is the main entertainer to win the Academy Award.
Kicked the bucket at her home in North Chatham, Massachusetts.
Lived close to Julie Harris.
Later tried out for however didn't win the lead spot of radio's "Our Miss Brooks", the job that made Eve Arden a star in 1948.
Separated from Ed Gardner during the 1940s, the marriage was a rough one as Gardner was a consumer and ingrained womanizer. She remarried in 1943 to William H. Bread cook, a sympathetic speculation broker. The association was a blissful yet moderately short one. She was in practices for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" when he kicked the bucket abruptly of a heart sickness. She had no kids from one or the other marriage.
At age 12 she joined the Hartford Stock Company. For the following six years she increased to three plays every week, some of the time walk-ons, visiting street and stock organizations.
Her dad, Albert J. Portage, was a "martinet," a sales rep for I.B.M. Enterprise, and was a harsh disciplinarian. She was nearer to her mom, Virginia Wright Ford. Her folks isolated when Shirley was in her youngsters, and her mom passed on in 1933. Her dad remarried and carried on with his life out in Brooklyn. Whenever Shirley chose to represent a living, her dad disallowed her to utilize the family name, along these lines losing the "Portage" and the "Thelma" in her name and becoming "Shirley Booth." After her folks' separation, Shirley never saw or addressed her dad again out of the savageries he caused for both her and her mom.
Account in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 67-70. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
Lobbied for the lead jobs in Summertime (1955) and Desk Set (1957), the two of which she began in front of an audience, however lost the two sections to Katharine Hepburn.
Is one of 15 entertainers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in sequential request are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.
Shirley Booth was the principal entertainer to win the Oscar, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and the National Board of Review Award as Best Actress for a similar exhibition as Lola Delaney in "Return, Little Sheba".
Was the 38th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) at The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953) on March 19, 1953.
Is one of 4 entertainers to win the Best Actress Oscar for her film debut (for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)). The others are Julie Andrews (for Mary Poppins (1964)), Barbra Streisand (for Funny Girl (1968)), and Marlee Matlin (for Children of a Lesser God (1986)).
In 1960 Shirley Booth was reported for the job of Melissa Frake in the impending twentieth Century-Fox Picture "State Fair", in the end delivered in March 1962, with Alice Faye having supplanted Shirley Booth.
Is one of 22 Oscar-winning entertainers to have been brought into the world in the province of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.
Shirley was initially made plans for to be Carol's mom on The Brady Bunch however the job was re-projected by Sherwood Schwartz.
Despite the fact that she was a ways into her 50s when she entered films, Booth thumped 9 years off the extended period of her introduction to the world, in this manner professing to be right around a whole ten years more youthful than her genuine age. Most contemporary diaries distributed before her retirement strongly acknowledged her introduction to the world year as 1907 and it was not until numerous years after the fact than the right year, 1898, was at long last disclosed.
Is one of 3 entertainers to have won the Best Actress Oscar (hers being for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)) and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy (hers being for Hazel (1961)). Different entertainers are Loretta Young and Helen Hunt.
On winning her Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) in 1953, she turned into the third (and last) lady brought into the world in the 1800's to be named Best Actress by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The past two were Mary Pickford (in 1930) and Marie Dressler (in 1931).
List of Shurley Booth Movies
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (TV Movie)
- A Touch of Grace (TV Series)
- The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)
- The Smugglers (TV Movie)
- CBS Playhouse (TV Series)
- The Glass Menagerie (TV Movie)
- Hazel (TV Series)
- The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- The Matchmaker
- Hot Spell
- Judgment at Nuremberg (TV Series)
- About Mrs. Leslie
- Main Street to Broadway
- Come Back, Little Sheba
- Strawhat Cinderella (Short) @ Many more...
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