Happy Shirley Booth's birthday (theatrical edition)! [sketch by William Auerbach-Levy, in Come Back, Little Sheba, in The Time of the Cuckoo, with Melvyn Douglas in Juno]
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And as Dolly Levi in "The Matchmaker", the play that "Hello, Dolly" was based on. One of my favorites, it co-stars Paul Ford, and has Anthony Perkins, Robert Morse and Shirley McClaine in early roles.
aug 30, 2025, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Mr. B should give her the weekend off.
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
And especially, but not exclusively, for @kevinddaly.bsky.social, Taina Elg, Shirley Booth, and Al Freeman Jr. in Look to the Lilies (1970)
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 pm • 15 0 • view
I may have seen that. I remember seeing Shirley Booth in a play about that time, but I don't remember what the play was. Here's a publicity shot of her for the Hazel TV show. She's with my father, Ted Key, who created and drew the Hazel cartoon.
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 4 0 • view
How cool!
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Thanks. I didn't know when Shirley Booth's birthday was. I met her twice. Once backstage at whatever play of hers we saw, and once a few years earlier when my father took me to New York and we went out to lunch with her. She was very nice. Also very, very talented.
aug 30, 2025, 2:43 pm • 3 0 • view
She also did around that time a highly unsuccessful revival of Noël Coward's Hay Fever and a revival of Harvey, with Gig Young, but only (I think) in Chicago.
aug 30, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I was just watching a clip of her being interviewed by Dick Cavett, and she’s so wonderfully endearing!
aug 30, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. I can't remember the details off the top of my head, but she had expressed interest in playing Hazel in a project that never happened prior to the TV show getting made. In an interview about playing Hazel, she said she was perfect for it because she had "the soul of a chamber maid."
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtul...
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 5 0 • view
That's not uncharming. I wasn't expecting AFJ to be, y'know, a stoner.
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
That time Hazel reviewed "Les Miz": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7je...
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 4 0 • view
I bet all,except Shirley, served in the order of SOM at one point.
aug 30, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I know him from tv 😁
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A bit of trivia I learned while researching my Virginia Faulkner biography is that Shirley Booth's first husband was Ed "Duffy's Tavern" Gardner. Virginia and Ed briefly worked on a never-completed comedy that was intended as a vehicle for Shirley.
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 pm • 4 0 • view