Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (
August 30,
1898 -
October 16,
1992) was an American actress. Born
Marjory Ford in
New York City, she was equally at home on
radio,
television, stage and in the movies. She began acting on
Broadway in the mid-
1920s (her first Broadway role was opposite
Humphrey Bogart), and won a
Tony Award in
1950 for
Come Back, Little Sheba. When she took the role to
Hollywood, she won the
Academy Award for Best Actress. Before that, she had won fans as a star of the radio program
Duffy's Tavern.
Booth only made five movies; besides Come Back, Little Sheba, they were Main Street to Broadway, About Mrs. Leslie, Hot Spell and The Matchmaker (the original, non-musical version of Hello, Dolly.)
Booth went to television to star in the sitcom Hazel, as a wisecracking maid.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Blvd.