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Shirley Booth

Birth:	Aug. 30, 1898
Death:	Oct. 26, 1992
Actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1925 with Humphrey Bogart in “Hell’s Bells.” Other Broadway credits include “The Philadelphia Story” as wisecracking photographer Liz Imbrie (1939), “My Sister Eileen” (1940), the musical version of “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” (1951), “The Desk Set” (1955) in the role played by Katharine Hepburn in the film, and “Look to the Lilies” (1970), a musical version of “Lilies of the Field.” She won three Tony awards for her stage work: "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1949), "Time Of The Cuckoo" (1953), and, her best-known role, "Come Back, Little Sheba" (1950). She made her film debut in 1952 at age 54, reprising her role in "Come Back, Little Sheba," winning a Best Actress Oscar (the first actress to win both the Oscar and Tony for the same role). Her age and type made it difficult to follow up her “Come Back, Little Sheba” success; she made only four more films: “Main Street to Broadway” (1953), “About Mrs. Leslie” (1954), “Hot Spell” (1958), and led an all-star cast as Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker” (1958), which was the basis for the musical “Hello, Dolly!” Her biggest success came on TV, playing the all-wise maid “Hazel” for six years in the TV series based on Ted Key’s “Saturday Evening Post” cartoons. She won two Emmys for the series, making her one of the few performers to win all three major entertainment awards. Her ashes are interred in the family plot of her second husband, William Baker. (bio by: Paul F. Wilson) Search Amazon for Shirley Booth

Burial: Mount Hebron Cemetery Upper Montclair Essex County New Jersey, USA Plot: Plane Lawn, Lot 8
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