Shirley Booth--Songs from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "By the Beautiful Sea," 1964 TV
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- Shirley Booth is joined by Andy Williams for a medley of songs from two of her best Broadway musicals, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "By the Beautiful Sea," in this 1964 TV appearance.
she is a treasure pure and simple. i wish she was still around. rip
Shirley Booth was a class act. Those days in television were wholesome and our nation was patriotic and sane!!!!
' ...she's been in 30 Broadway shows' and Shirley mimics her aged beard. Beautiful! Thank you for posting, Alan.
:Priceless!! What show tune queen hasn't imagined seeing Shirley Booth perform while listening to these 2 great cast albums. Now that fantasy can come at least partially true. WOW!!!!
the beautiful Academy Award winning star Shirley Booth
How can anyone not LOVE that Shirley "Hazel" Both? What a wonderful classic TV moment!
I loved The Andy Williams show
and I still watch hazel
This is magnificent. I don't think I've seen Miss Booth on a variety show before!
She is absolutely charming! I had no idea this existed and it is great to see her in action, particularly singing "He Had Refinement." Her professionalism, star quality, and timing are great.
Shirley Booth was great!
Love this so fun to see Shirley Booth sing and dance! Priceless
Great. Just divine.
Andy Williams such a smooth voice.
Wonderful
Truly lovable actress. A great treat!
You've really made a name for yourself when Hirshfeld did a caricature of you.
The “Hazel” show was spectacular-she praised God and our great America.
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Shirley Booth had a marvelous talent and a really switched on person and was really funny.
Wonderful !! Much love for this film.
Beautiful! And what a fun time. Thanks for the upload. Miss Shirley was a doozie!
Thank you for your continued inspired contributions. Shirley has enchanted me since I watched her as Hazel as my after school treat. So nice to see video for cast album performances I've cherished for decades. Merci beaucoup!
I always love to watch the Andy Williams show. Shirley Booth was an excellent character actress. She played the nonmusical version of hello dolly, The Matchmaker.
It's so cool that Booth was able to shave 9 years off of her real age during her entire career.
I know... however she used to drop a slight hint of age on Hazel
Alan. You are the king of musical theatre history!
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing another gem! I revel in all of Miz Booth’s work, but I particularly have a fondness for the unique quality of her singing voice. I’m glad to get to see her singing some of my favorites with Andy Williams no less!
I love Andy Williams
Alan thank you for posting. This is tremendous!
Hooray for this!
Sweet.
Booth, unencumbered by ever-present Andy, finally sings one her her own Broadway songs from By the Beautiful Sea at around 9;15. 'the Lottie Gibson Number' where she impersonates a young girl. ( a la Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann only twenty years earlier.
Truly Andy Williams was the Bing Crosby of the Sixties. His only problem was - it was the Sixties.
With the airdate of November 16, 1964
Thanks
Very humble, for her, with her success, to play Hazel, though an “unconventional maid” 😉
I love when she calls Andy Williams “Johnny”! Interesting that Shirley Booth wore red wigs throughout Hazel but comes on Andy Williams with her white hair. Wonder if this was a wig as well or her real hair?? Either way, she is absolutely charming! The songs she sings may be corny by today’s standards, but lots of fun. Corny or not - this is what the numerous variety shows of the 1960’s were like.
"The Good Time Singers" are T.Y. Drake, Craig Smith, Michael Storm, Lee Montgomery, Dave Jackson, Dave Ratkin, Doug Brookins, Maggie Basseley, Marilyn Miller, and Alexandra Hutton.
Miss Booth, like Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Cornell, and Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, was one of those exquisitely talented stage performers who somehow big screen success eluded. But as an actress onstage, both in straight plays and musicals, she was
pretty incomparable. Strange to think that she was the original Dolly Gallagher Levi in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," a rôle now far better known for its incarnation in "Hello, Dolly." Arthur Laurents, who wrote "The Time of The Cuckoo" for Booth, loathed the changes that were necessary for the film adaptation "Summertime," and far preferred Booth's performance as the original character, Leona Samish, to Katharine Hepburn's as Jane Hudson, as the character became in the film.
Ruth Gordon created Dolly in "The Matchmaker" on Broadway, based on an earlier play, "Merchant of Yonkers," that starred Jane Cowl.
@@aeichler thank you. After I wrote it and discussed it with my theater companion of 45 years he was horrified that I could make such an error. It's not like me but I'm 70 now...
I'm with Oser.
Shirley had a wonderful voice but only displays her true voice at the very end where you can hear her voice ringing through. By the way the dancers were not singing and Shirley concentrating on the dance steps the vocals were probably recorded earlier but Shirley was totally first class and ridelled with total talent . She was born for her " Hazel " role. In her Oscar winning film Little Sheba she would have been 54 but her Agent had her down as 45... Well she looked 45 .. good on her.. a smart cookie.
Shirley is an absolute delight, her four movies were great, but her singing though perfect for Broadway, is not quite up to par to the rest of her talent. I can not find fault with her, I loved her as Hazel. It goes to show her true star quality, far reaching and always entertaining.
Do you have Chubby Checker on "The Andy Williams Show" from around 1970?
“He’s got a knife!”
If you want to see just Broadway Booth (without the ever-present Andy) reprise 'the Lottie Gibson number' from By the Beautiful Sea with Booth impersonating a young girl Go to 9:15
Sounds like betty boop,maybe the lady was the voice of the cartoon
But...but...but...it's all pre-recorded and they're just lip-syncing to it. And all extra "echo" effect makes it seems all the more removed from real singing. Big disappointment.
I think the end bit is Lip synced. All the bits up to Shirleys solo are live. Shirley struggled with lipsync.. she was from an early generation ... from look who's dancing... she struggles.. But hey ho... she's terrific
Corny stuff
So get lost
Frank D. I'm guessing you like Mitch Miller, Lawrence Welk and mostly yourself. Women not so much.
Your corny is my delightful of a bygone era. Shirley Booth was undeniably one of the great stars of stage and screen.
And I am not a big fan of Mitch Miller or Lawrence Welk.