ANNIVERSARY TODAY:
February 18, 1945 - Shirley is heard on radio in the Kate Smith Show. Shirley did a comedy routine and sang "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
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Despite all efforts to provide only accurate information in my first publication, Love is the Reason for it All: The Shirley Booth Story (BearManor Media, 2008), some revisions are necessary:
Page 11: Channel 5 is the New York channel that ran reruns of Hazel (not Channel 11).
Some of the recorded dates of Shirley’s early stock theatre work are based on her repeated claims made over the years in interviews. Actual theatrical records have been located which indicate that many of those appearances were actually later in the late teens of the 20th century. These details will appear in a separate study.
Page 24: Shirley Booth’s sister, Jean Ford Coe (February 14, 1914 – January 23, 2010) was not deceased at the time of publication as stated. She actually lived in a retirement home in Forest Grove, Oregon. Her daughter, Leslie Sodaro, contacted me to tell me this when she became aware of my biography when she found my blog devoted to Shirley Booth (http://shirleybooth.info).
Page 11: Channel 5 is the New York channel that ran reruns of Hazel (not Channel 11).
Some of the recorded dates of Shirley’s early stock theatre work are based on her repeated claims made over the years in interviews. Actual theatrical records have been located which indicate that many of those appearances were actually later in the late teens of the 20th century. These details will appear in a separate study.
Page 24: Shirley Booth’s sister, Jean Ford Coe (February 14, 1914 – January 23, 2010) was not deceased at the time of publication as stated. She actually lived in a retirement home in Forest Grove, Oregon. Her daughter, Leslie Sodaro, contacted me to tell me this when she became aware of my biography when she found my blog devoted to Shirley Booth (http://shirleybooth.info).
Although she was her sister’s secretary and assistant, Jean Ford Coe did not know that Shirley’s birth name was “Marjory.” Jean knew her sister simply as “Thelma” or “Shirley.” Shirley never indicated that “Marjory” was the name on her birth certificate. Apparently, Shirley’s father liked his own mother’s name of “Thelma,” and so he used that name instead of "Marjory."
Page 58: The date of Shirley’s second marriage is not mentioned (September 24, 1943).
Page 58: The second line from page bottom should read “walls, yellow bedspread,” (not “walls, yet low bedspread.”)
Page 66: The character's name is “Taffy,” not “Cathy.”
Page 70: Shirley's appearance on The Fred Allen Show is June 19, 1949 (not June 9, 1949).
Page 70: Shirley did not appear in a widely credited take-off of her Broadway musical Hollywood Pinafore, (The Fred Allen Show, “Brooklyn Pinafore, November 25, 1945). A copy of the show surfaced recently to confirm that Minerva Pious played the part attributed to Shirley.
Page 247: Claire Adams should be listed for Shirley’s Broadway Stage credits.
Page 248: Claire Adams was not one of Shirley’s Stock Theatre Credits.
Page 250: The date for Shirley's first Emmy Award for Hazel is not listed - the 14th Annual Emmy Awards took place on May 22, 1962.
Page 253 to 261: Due to the inability to obtain many “lost” radio shows to confirm Shirley’s actual appearance, reliance on radio show logs cannot be definitive. Additional credits are possible, but they have not been confirmed at the time of this publication.
Page 255: Add Adventures of the Thin Man, June 6, 1944 to Radio credits.
Page 257: Same revision as page 70 above.
Page 259: Shirley is not in Theatre Guild on the Air broadcast of “Hamlet,” either for incorrect date of April 21, 1949 or actual show from March 1951.
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For Bill, His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story
by Jim Manago
Foreword by Leslie Sodaro
Published December 1, 2010
Further details at: http://shirleybooth.blogspot.com
THANKS FOR VISITING!
JOIN ME AGAIN TOMORROW!
*****
For purchasing any of my books, you can visit Amazon.com
You can also check www.bookfinder.com
which offers the best prices on new & used copies.
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For Bill, His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story
by Jim Manago
Foreword by Leslie Sodaro
Published December 1, 2010
Further details at: http://shirleybooth.blogspot.com
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Love is the Reason for it All: The Shirley Booth Story
by Jim Manago
Radio Research by Donna Manago
Foreword by Ted Key
BearManor Media, May 2008
http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com
by Jim Manago
Radio Research by Donna Manago
Foreword by Ted Key
BearManor Media, May 2008
http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com
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