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    Shirley Booth (born Marjory Ford; August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American actress. One of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting...
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    1950 play of the same title by William Inge. Starring Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, and Richard Jaeckel, the film tells the story of a marriage...
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  • American sitcom about a spunky live-in maid named Hazel Burke (played by Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series...
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  • on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name. It is narrated by Shirley Booth (her final acting credit before her retirement from acting) and starring...
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  • Awards: 1947: Best Actress in a Play – Joan of Lorraine American actress Shirley Booth (1898–1992) completed the triple crown in 1962. She was a 4-time Emmy...
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  • Spell is a 1958 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn, and released by Paramount Pictures. Alma Duval is...
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  • Merrie Melodies theme "Merrily We Roll Along"), (d. 1970). August 30: Shirley Booth, American actress (voice of Mrs. Claus in The Year Without a Santa Claus)...
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    directed by Joseph Anthony. The film stars Shirley Booth in her final film, Anthony Perkins, and Shirley MacLaine. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes...
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  • on Broadway in Marc Blitzstein's musical Juno in 1959, which starred Shirley Booth. Composer Marc Blitzstein was reportedly so delighted with Amundsen...
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    national telecast of the Awards show drew an estimated 43 million viewers. Shirley Booth, appearing in a play in Philadelphia, presented the Academy Award for...
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  • Claire Bloom (born 1931) Ann Blyth (born 1928) Beulah Bondi (1889–1981) Shirley Booth (1898–1992) Clara Bow (1905–1965) Alice Brady (1892–1939) Helen Broderick...
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  • the bittersweet romance between Leona Samish (originally played by Shirley Booth), a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe and Renato...
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    Canadian politician Shirley Bonne (born 1934), American actress and model Shirley Booth (1898–1992), American actress Shirley Booz (1927–2009), American...
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    Taylor The Turning Point (1977) – Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment (1983) – Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger Thelma & Louise (1991)...
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  • is a 1954 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan. It was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1955. Vivien...
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    March 14, 1949, cover of Time. She was the title character played by Shirley Booth in the Playhouse 90 feature "The Hostess with the Mostess" in 1957....
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    for their debut performances in film: Best Actor None Best Actress Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952) Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964) Barbra...
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    2015. Retrieved September 2, 2008. "A Tribute to Shirley Booth, paragraph: Dean Martin on Shirley Booth – Dean Martin recalling an encounter with Driscoll...
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  • Award-winning performances, collaborating with actors like Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Martin and Anthony...
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    The 1974 stop-action sequel The Year Without a Santa Claus starred Shirley Booth voicing the classic Mrs. Claus. This was remade in 2006 as a live-action...
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  • Paramount Pictures vehicle for Shirley Booth, Columbia head Harry Cohn decided to offer it to Capra instead, hoping he could lure Booth to his studio. Unable to...
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    (February 16, 1989). "Shirley Valentine – Broadway Play – Original". IBDB. Retrieved January 26, 2022. "Shirley Valentine (Broadway, Booth Theatre, 1989)"....
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  • sitcom that was based on the British series For the Love of Ada starring Shirley Booth and J. Patrick O'Malley centering on a widow who moves in with her daughter...
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  • Smith's autobiographical novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), but when Shirley Booth was cast as Aunt Cissy (spelled Sissy in the book), a secondary character...
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    won the role of Harold "Sport" Baxter on the sitcom Hazel, starring Shirley Booth. The series aired for five seasons, first on NBC with Don DeFore and...
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  • comedy with Shirley MacLaine, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) then Fräulein Doktor (1969) and The Vessel of Wrath (1970) for TV. Booth went to Australia...
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    Jane Wyatt (1959) Jane Wyatt (1960) Barbara Stanwyck (1961) Shirley Booth (1962) Shirley Booth (1963) Mary Tyler Moore (1964) No award (1965) Mary Tyler...
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  • by Tennessee Williams. It is directed by Michael Elliott and stars Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Loden and Pat Hingle. Sponsored by Xerox, it...
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    into a Broadway musical in 1970, retitled Look to the Lilies, with Shirley Booth in the role of Mother Maria Marthe. It tells the story of an itinerant...
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  • voiced by Juan Chioran, while Mrs. Claus (voiced in the original by Shirley Booth who died in 1992) was portrayed by Catherine Disher. The movie aimed...
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