Your right was just looking her up loved watching Hazel with my sister. That speech was so sincere and gracious she really seemed like a nice person .Great trip down memory lane.
Dale Ramage watching Hazel now comes on Ant Tv I just love her gives me a lesson every episode I watch!!! Always teaching me something through her craziness lol she was so funny and always getting into something on that show!!
Redbone 88 - I wish they made TV like that again. We’ve been watching How To Get Away With Murder since it started. What a train wreck those people are in, and it keeps on wrecking. My husband and I talked about that just yesterday-there are scarcely any programs made now that are just normal daily activities that finish up without death, mayhem, body snatching, or some nefarious deed. I love Hazel!
Another totally deserved win. I still get choked up seeing Shirley on her front porch quietly calling out "come back little Sheba" (her lost puppy). Her and Lancaster are phenomenal in the movie.
@@jasonlindsey9946 Many have said that despite the accolades and fame, Shirley was just an ordinary schlub, who we often saw on the big screen, and on the little screen in Hazel! Very relatable.
At the last scene I was crying so hard when Lola said to Doc that she was not going to call out for little Sheba anymore. She gave up the dream of her puppy coming back. Dreams unfulfilled kill a part of us inside. And, the love she still had for her husband who almost killed her astounds me. He was all she had left; her parents had abandoned her in her hour of need. A great and lovely film! God bless and rest the souls of Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster. Faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. Cindy
The thing that really broke my heart was the scene where Lola calls her mother on the telephone; we find out that she has been disowned by her father. And she unsuccessfully attempts to get permission to come home: "I'm awful unhappy, Mom." Unfortunately her uncaring parents reject her, and not, we suspect, for the first time. That scene and everything that follows had me sobbing.
Yes. So heartbreaking that her parents wouldn't forgive Lola and let her come home for awhile after her near murder,in the phone conversation. Ironically,her real life father made Shirley change her last name for the stage and was not supportive.
Mikey Trahant SHIRLEY BOOTH WAS 55 YEARS OLD AND 'COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA' WAS HER FILM DEBUT. TO WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS MUST HAVE BEEN A THRILL FOR HER. THIS SHOULD ENCOURAGE ALL WOMEN THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE DISCARDED BECAUSE WE ARE NOT YOUNGER. SHE WAS BORN IN 1898, AND HAD LIED ABOUT HER AGE, SHAVED OFF 10 YEARS AS A STAGE AND FILM PERFORMER. WHEN SHE DIED IN 1992, SHE WAS 94 YRS. YOUNG.
Agreed before she did Hazel which was a great t v show this woman had class in every way and a special warmth that very few people have today. Her charm and just sweet personality should never ever be forgotten !!!!!
I've just watched the movie and loved the movie and Shirley Booth. I can't think of enough superlatives about her performance. She was extremely poignant, warm and lovely in film. The warmth was inherent i guess.. A completely natural, beautiful work. She lived the role. Truly heart wrenching. Alas Little Sheba did'nt come back...
In a book about Burt Lancaster,don't know if it was a bio or someone else wrote it. He says he accepted the role of Doc in Little Sheba he knew the role was smaller or subordinate to Booth's in the movie. He knew Shirley Booth from the theater and had tremendous respect for her. He knew the film was small but was OK, that the film had prestige and could win awards. Except for another actress he worked with, Burt Lancaster said that Shirley Booth was the finest actress he ever worked with.
Just finished watching this film for the first time and I'm blown away by Shirley Booth's performance. Absolutely stunning acting. And look at the contenders, who didn't stand a chance of winning this Oscar!
Come Back Little Sheba is probably one of my favorite classics Hollywood films. The chase scene in the 3rd act is master class acting. Truly, deserved.
Shirley Booth would later be known to many baby boomers as TV's "Hazel," the goofy maid with a New York accent. It's great to see this clip and realize how articulate and classy she was.
Noe Berengena - I look at Hazel as an example of Shirley Booth’s range as an actress. I love ‘Hazel’ - I have 135 episodes Tivo’d, and watch them when TV is so ridiculous I can’t stand it!
I just watched the entire film and she is superb. A flawless performance. Not one hole in it. She gave her all whenever she performed and she richly deserved this Oscar. A pity that some of the other Oscar winners don't come close to this woman's intensely portrayed performance.
larespo1 This was 1952 and there were other performers and movies very deserving. Susan Hayward for With a Song in my Heart deserved to win best actress and that movie plus Come Back Little Sheba were the best pictures of that year, not The Greatest Show on earth!!!!!
INTERNETWORK Thank you for your opinion however I do know quite a bit also. Motion pictures of the past and the wonderful people who starred in them are gone now but their memories will last forever!!!!!
Beautiful and so classy...she gave one of the best performances ever! I loved Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear but Shirley was absolutely amazing, one of my favorite movies of all time♥️♥️
Jennifer Lawrence should see this. She'll be happy to know she wasn't the first actress to trip going up to accept her Oscar. Love Shirley Booth. Was always a big fan of hers.
It is too bad that today's actresses and actors can no longer hold a candle to the style and grace Shirley Booth displayed in accepting this award. Instead they have to make political statements or bloviate over topics which are filled with hatred, partisanship and sexism at best. The Academy Awards presentations of today are a far cry from this time in their existence. A far cry and a world apart from the grace this woman displayed back then. The acting of everyone in this movie was superb in every sense of the word.
Huh?? there wad alot of old actors & actresses back than who were very political...do your homework, some spoke up about the disgusting racism and hatered back than, some protest the mistreatment of minorties. Hello back than was full of racism and segregation, alot of them protest by not attending. And you have alot of great actress today that can hold a candle, Meryl Streep, Kate Winset, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Dame Helen Miriam, Julia Roberts, Nicole kidman, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Lange, Susan Surrandon, they are the greatest actresses today...Stop fucking reaching, just because you dont like what they say doesnt mean they are not reaching the unspoken, like the minorities that this fucked up president has said dispararging and racist things about...they have a right to speak up its all First Amendment right. You people just dont want to hear the truth because you worship this horrible president. But don't put todays amazing female actress down because they are out spoken. Why can't you people watch this and admire her and without putting todays actresses down with that holding the candle bullshit...which is wrong because there is alot of actresses today that were way better than past actresses, Meryl Streep has 3 oscars and been nominated 30 times, she is concidered the greatest ever!...even bette Davis said Meryl Streep was the best actress of her time in the 1980s, she had legends that were still alive who did movies in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s who praised Meryl and Glen Close. Not every actress back than were all great...That had to put up a fake Facade as these perfect white washed persona's to make white America Happy and comfortable. They still margalized black and latinos actors and treated them cruelly...So don't give me none of that bullshit that everything was perfect and dandy back than, it was a scary dark period for minorties than. At least today they are acknowledging Minorites and seeing more black women and men as leading role and winning more oscars and awards, and they are holding a big movie, today we can say we saw the first all black cast hold and break a box office record with the black Pather, at least thid country has mixture of different races being acknowlegded because times are evolving and you have extroadinary black actresses today, and latina actresss today, that were put down and treated inhumane in the 1950s and were ignored, and looked over and had so meny disgusting stereostypes, at least hollywood is now giving women more better roles, paying them the same amount as men and making them leading characters in movies. Back than white women and minorties had to put on a fake persona and were looked at as second class citiziens, and never got paid well, only the men got paid more, they were margalized, nowadays they have changed that, and I see more black women being acknowledged more...So fuck off with all that shit, about it was better....it was better for white people like you. And people like you are stuck in the past and can't evolve and move with the times. At least women and minorites are getting some respect and dignity today than back than, because we all know this president today don't respect them. Marlon Brando & Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean martin, Montgomery cliff, and meny more spoke out about the mistreatment of minorites in hollywood and some even went to congress...and even sent letters, some even spoke out on the presidents back than...so shut the hell up with all that crap.
Actors have a right to their opinion just like everybody else. And it's great that actors have a platform to speak out against racism and other forms of injustice. Bravo Hollywood. Bravo Meryl Streep! Bravo Frances McDormand!
I adored Shirley Booth. If ANYONE deserved an Oscar for acting, she most certainly did. Brilliant acting in "Come Back Little Sheeba" AND other films. RIP Shirley
Of all the actor's throughout history to win Oscars, she is one of the most deserving. In my opinion, she created an empathetic character you wanted to wrap your arm's around and say everything's goin be alright Lola. Shirley Booth created a three dimensional person named Lola, a woman so lovable and delicate, it broke your heart to see her suffer. That's the power of film. That's also the power of Shirley Booth's performance, which is why she is so deserving. She's simply outstanding.
Jeff Kiper Wonderfully put, Jeff. It's interesting you said that. I saw this movie as a kid and have never wanted to give a film character a hug like I did Lola. She just breaks your heart.
1Rdby.....Come Back Little Sheba is no doubt, one of the finest movies ever made. Shirley Booth was an amazing actress. This movie is a must see for anyone and everybody. All about Alcoholism, love, loneliness, desperation, redemption and yes again, love.
+UFOSPACE1999 Lancaster was completely miscast as Doc and he knew it. Hard to believe the reality of a broken down chiropractor when he looks as if he just stepped off Muscle Beach wearing junior college production makeup. On the other hand, Paramount did not want Shirley Booth without a big name beside her, so I have mixed feelings about him. He did have some good scenes despite being all wrong for the part and clashing with Ms. Booth's uncompromising realism.
I know that is my own opinion. The Academy Awards have been handed out now for 94 years. Of all the best actress Oscars handed out since the beginning I put Shirley Booth's truly magnificent and deserving performance in Come Back, Little Sheba as my clear#1 choice. Even ahead of ladies like Bette Davis, Meryl Streep and Katharine Hepburn. The ones that come closest to the quality of the performance of Shirley Booth in this film are also from the 1950's. My #2 pick is the great Italian actress Anna Magnani in 1955's The Rose Tattoo followed by Vivien Leigh's performance in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951.
Truly, she was one of the greatest artists of her craft in both Hollywood and Broadway history! Shirley Booth is one of only 23 actors/actresses who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: Oscar, Tony, and Emmy. Among thousands in that field, that is quite an accomplishment. Beyond her skills, however, Shirley was a humble, gracious, and loving individual, always putting others first. Her acceptance speech here is so indicative of that. Love her!
Shirley Booth’s performance in come back little Sheba was one of the most heart wrenching and beautiful that I’ve ever seen in the movies. This was definitely one of the most well deserved Oscars of all time!
One of the greatest and sweetest actresses of all time. Her acceptance speech is marvelous and her charm is just wonderful, this lady was superb in every way !!!!!
Evette Thomas Nobody ever mentions About Mrs Leslie. I adore Shirley Booth and her roles were perfect for her. But none so much as Sheeba and Mrs Leslie. It took some time and effort to locate a copy of Mrs Leslie, and no one seems to appreciate it like I do. And then I read your comment. Thanks for bringing it to the attention of this thread.
Such graciousness and class rarely exhibited and expressed! Shirley Booth was one of Hollywood's greatest actresses...and she was wonderful as, "Hazel", on TV, too. I love her!
Shirley Booth, Ronald Colman, and Frederic March. All the great stars, luminaries! It is very sad to think that there are many people who are watching this, and other You Tube Oscar vignettes, that do not have a clue who these great actors are. Thankfully, there is TCM. But too few people appreciate the talent here.
You'll Never Ever See Anything like this ever again, Shirley Booth gave an incredible acceptance speech like nobody does anymore, a very close runner up that year would have been, Susan Hayward, her performance in With a Song in my Heart was just as good and Epic !!!!!
Can you imagine an actor - of either gender - being this classy, articulate and brief today??? No cheesy political comments, no F-bombs, and no conductor hitting notes to get the the blabbermouths off the stage!!!! Even the great Meryl Streep made an ass out of herself.
Wayne Olsen Excuse me, but Miyoshi Umeki won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her tragic role in “Sayonara” only a few years later in 1957. She’s Japanese, and the only Asian to win an Oscar for acting. The wonderful Hattie McDaniel, an African American, became the first African American (“Negro” is an antiquated and offensive term) to win an Oscar for her brilliant turn in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.” Several African Americans have captured Oscars for their acting since. If Asians, Latinos and African Americans (not to mention Native Americans) were actually given roles, you would probably find a lot of them winning Oscars.
The immortal Ronald Colman, the man Olivier called the greatest SCREEN actor in the History of Cinema. Indeed, he had it all: the most beautiful speaking voice ever, the greatest practitioner of affective pantomime honed to perfection in his silent days that he carried forth into the talkies. Vincent Price recalled that the studios taught screen acting, and speech, by reference to Colman's performances...
Easily the greatest performance that year and perhaps one of the top five greatest of all time. One thinks of a Sarah Bernhardt when you view Shirley Booth.
In my humble opinion, the GREATEST performance for an actress in any role.....BAR NONE. No other performance was as sweet, as real, as poignant as hers.
Too bad there were no shots of the other nominees (Joan, Bette, Julie, and Susan). Shirley Booth is such a sensitive and engaging actress. Thanks for posting this clip!
One of the saddest movies ever the ending is downright painful to watch. I cry like a baby every time I watch it. Ms Booth was amazing so is Burt Lancaster who plays her husband & Terry More great too.
A classy and talented lady who not only deserved to win with such a great performance but in addition could brag that she knocked Crawford and Davis out of the box that night!
Very nice acceptance speech. Ms. Booth starred in a very short-lived sitcom in the early 70s titled, "A Touch of Grace." It's too bad it didn't last: it was a sweet endearing comedy
These were the years in the early to mid 50's when the Oscars had simultaneous broadcasts in Hollywood and NY and awards would go back and forth depending who won. The main reason was many film actors also appeared in Broadway plays and it was the years before jet travel.
Shirley Booth was absolutely amazing in all that she did , but everyone that cares about art should see ' come back , Little Sheba ' at least once , even if they need to have a prescription filled afterward ! it's that brilliant !
Love this acceptance speech! Faith, Hope and Charity-sweet Shirley covers it all! What a special person and talented actress!! One of my favorite movies!
When I first discovered or I should 1st watched come back little Sheba on UA-cam. I promise you I have watched it almost every day and my feelings of sentiment just get deeper and deeper. It may just be me, but it does not seem like movie making is like this anymore she was spectacular and I still cry, tears of endearment I love this movie. I’m gonna watch it as a matter fact now.
Truly Richly Deserved! Shirley Booth was Brilliant and Lovely and so Sad at times in Come Back, Little Sheba! Shirley Booth was 100% at all times, was Class! Even on TV Show Hazel. Much Live for one of the Best Actors Ever!
Where was it? I had always heard of the famous fall, but it was really nothing. The way the urban legend spread, it was as if Ms. Booth fell into the orchestra pit ! But it was really nothing and she professionally ignored it once onstage. A very classy person and great talent.
Well deserved win for Mrs. Booth. One of my top 16 or maybe 15 most deserved Winners EVER in the catagory! :D Harris was terrific too (actually this posting was the day Before Harris died!). Great too se the great Mr. March in an Oscar apparance, the year after this at the Oscars, he was funny as hell! ;D;D And even MORE FUNNY AS HELL on whats my line?! ;D;D;D;D
Such an amazing actress. Winner of several Tonys, Emmys and an Oscar. A real classy lady - most of her work was on the stage. I think she only made five films. She won basically every award for this performance - Oscar, Cannes, Golden Globes, NY Film Critics Circle Awards and National Board Of Review. She loved playing Hazel and brought real heart to the performance. One of our all time best actresses - at a time when actresses didn’t have to be stick thin, young and gorgeous. Olivia Colman and Kathy Bates are the only others since Booth who fit that description and who also won Oscars, but feel free to correct me (Charlize Theron and & Hilary Swank don’t count bcz they were lovely in real life). Any actor can take a lesson from Ms. Booth, she was so extraordinary. And I wish today’s Oscars were as respectful and short as they were back then - Bob Hope was a marvelous host!
Um ... Simone Signoret, Shelley Winters (twice), Geraldine Page, Margaret Rutherford, Lila Kedrova, Mo'Nique, Brenda Fricker, Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Hayes, Eileen Heckart, Maureen Stapleton, Linda Hunt, Olympia Dukakis, Jessica Tandy, were hardly stick thin, young, and gorgeous yet they all won Oscars.
Susan Hayward was so wonderful in the Jane Froman Story (With a Song in My Heart) but this was a close race between the two of them and Shirley won all the other major awards and she was very deserving,
She was great and deserved to win. She tripped but so did Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Lawrence. Booth won every major award for this performance except the BAFTA so she was basically a shoo-in. Hayward won the Golden Globe for Comedy or Musical actress which is ironic considering that her movie was not a comedy and she did not sing a note. She was dubbed by the real Jane Froman.
I'm sorry but Susan Hayward could not compare to Shirley Booth's performance in '52. She was excellent in the role but Miss Booth was positively riveting as Lola Delaney. I am well aware that Miss Hayward did her own vocals in "Ill Cry Tomorrow".
WHAT? I was not comparing an accidental trip to a great performance! Where did you pull that from? All I stated was that Shirley Booth tripped and years later Streisand tripped and last year Lawrence tripped. That was all. Nothing to di with performances what so ever. Just an observation response to someone else's comment.
![What's My Line? - Hedda Hopper; Shirley Booth; Steve Lawrence [panel] (Mar 10, 1963)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AscJjI3o9go/mqdefault.jpg)
That has to have been one of the most gracious Oscar acceptance speeches ever. What a charming woman she was.
Miel Mani I agree, and well-deserved for a deeply engrossing, heart-breaking performance.
Your right was just looking her up loved watching Hazel with my sister. That speech was so sincere and gracious she really seemed like a nice person .Great trip down memory lane.
Dale Ramage watching Hazel now comes on Ant Tv I just love her gives me a lesson every episode I watch!!! Always teaching me something through her craziness lol she was so funny and always getting into something on that show!!
Redbone 88 - I wish they made TV like that again. We’ve been watching How To Get Away With Murder since it started. What a train wreck those people are in, and it keeps on wrecking. My husband and I talked about that just yesterday-there are scarcely any programs made now that are just normal daily activities that finish up without death, mayhem, body snatching, or some nefarious deed. I love Hazel!
She forgot racism though....
Another totally deserved win. I still get choked up seeing Shirley on her front porch quietly calling out "come back little Sheba" (her lost puppy). Her and Lancaster are phenomenal in the movie.
My mom told me about the movie. One of the best performances by a lead actress I have ever laid eyes on.
Yes
@@jasonlindsey9946 She was sooo good in it. It really captured the sometimes not-so-fun life of the 1950's housewife.
@@Mike-fp5rc And some modern day.
I liked her not only for her obvious acting ability but she was exceptionally intellectual and humble as well.
@@jasonlindsey9946 Many have said that despite the accolades and fame, Shirley was just an ordinary schlub, who we often saw on the big screen, and on the little screen in Hazel! Very relatable.
in come back little sheba shirley booth gave one of the greatest performances in the history of cinema
YES, SHE DID… PERIOD!!!!
RIP Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 - October 16, 1992), aged 94
You will always be remembered as a legend.
At the last scene I was crying so hard when Lola said to Doc that she was not going to call out for little Sheba anymore. She gave up the dream of her puppy coming back. Dreams unfulfilled kill a part of us inside. And, the love she still had for her husband who almost killed her astounds me. He was all she had left; her parents had abandoned her in her hour of need. A great and lovely film! God bless and rest the souls of Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster. Faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. Cindy
Don Smale and now I'm crying again 😭 such a beautiful film and a wonderfully written post :-)
Cindy Smale beautifully said
The thing that really broke my heart was the scene where Lola calls her mother on the telephone; we find out that she has been disowned by her father. And she unsuccessfully attempts to get permission to come home:
"I'm awful unhappy, Mom."
Unfortunately her uncaring parents reject her, and not, we suspect, for the first time.
That scene and everything that follows had me sobbing.
Yes. So heartbreaking that her parents wouldn't forgive Lola and let her come home for awhile after her near murder,in the phone conversation. Ironically,her real life father made Shirley change her last name for the stage and was not supportive.
One of THE most deserving wins in Oscar history.
One of the greatest movie performances of all time. I love Shirley Booth!!
+Mikey Trahant You got that right. She was a marvel, she is surely missed. God bless Shirls.
Mikey Trahant SHIRLEY BOOTH WAS 55 YEARS OLD AND 'COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA' WAS HER FILM DEBUT. TO WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS MUST HAVE BEEN A THRILL FOR HER. THIS SHOULD ENCOURAGE ALL WOMEN THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE DISCARDED BECAUSE WE ARE NOT YOUNGER. SHE WAS BORN IN 1898, AND HAD LIED ABOUT HER AGE, SHAVED OFF 10 YEARS AS A STAGE AND FILM PERFORMER. WHEN SHE DIED IN 1992, SHE WAS 94 YRS. YOUNG.
Agreed before she did Hazel which was a great t v show this woman had class in every way and a special warmth that very few people have today. Her charm and just sweet personality should never ever be forgotten !!!!!
I've just watched the movie and loved the movie and Shirley Booth. I can't think of enough superlatives about her performance. She was extremely poignant, warm and lovely in film. The warmth was inherent i guess.. A completely natural, beautiful work. She lived the role. Truly heart wrenching. Alas Little Sheba did'nt come back...
Nope, Little Sheba was afraid of Doc, and was never coming back, which is what Lola should have done....
In a book about Burt Lancaster,don't know if it was a bio or someone else wrote it. He says he accepted the role of Doc in Little Sheba he knew the role was smaller or subordinate to Booth's in the movie. He knew Shirley Booth from the theater and had tremendous respect for her. He knew the film was small but was OK, that the film had prestige and could win awards. Except for another actress he worked with, Burt Lancaster said that Shirley Booth was the finest actress he ever worked with.
Just finished watching this film for the first time and I'm blown away by Shirley Booth's performance.
Absolutely stunning acting.
And look at the contenders, who didn't stand a chance of winning this Oscar!
That movie was one of the saddest I've ever seen, but so true to life for many people. ALL the actors were great in it.
Come Back Little Sheba is probably one of my favorite classics Hollywood films. The chase scene in the 3rd act is master class acting. Truly, deserved.
Why can't the Oscars revert to being like THIS again???? Shirley was brilliant in "Come back Little Sheba."
She brings a tear to your eye in all her work
@@MarieDeWitt-e8c Indeed she does.
Poignant movie, great Booth and Lancaster. Her speech is poetic, not like today when stars feel the need to thank their kids' babysitter.
Shirley Booth would later be known to many baby boomers as TV's "Hazel," the goofy maid with a New York accent. It's great to see this clip and realize how articulate and classy she was.
Noe Berengena - I look at Hazel as an example of Shirley Booth’s range as an actress. I love ‘Hazel’ - I have 135 episodes Tivo’d, and watch them when TV is so ridiculous I can’t stand it!
Shirley Booth is so good in Come Back Little Sheba that I feel simply shattered for her character, Lola Delaney, every single time I see the film.
I just watched the entire film and she is superb. A flawless performance. Not one hole in it. She gave her all whenever she performed and she richly deserved this Oscar. A pity that some of the other Oscar winners don't come close to this woman's intensely portrayed performance.
larespo1 This was 1952 and there were other performers and movies very deserving. Susan Hayward for With a Song in my Heart deserved to win best actress and that movie plus Come Back Little Sheba were the best pictures of that year, not The Greatest Show on earth!!!!!
INTERNETWORK Thank you for your opinion however I do know quite a bit also. Motion pictures of the past and the wonderful people who starred in them are gone now but their memories will last forever!!!!!
INTERNETWORK thank you for that.
Beautiful and so classy...she gave one of the best performances ever! I loved Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear but Shirley was absolutely amazing, one of my favorite movies of all time♥️♥️
Jennifer Lawrence should see this. She'll be happy to know she wasn't the first actress to trip going up to accept her Oscar. Love Shirley Booth. Was always a big fan of hers.
A moment from our great past when people were wonderful like you will never ever see this way again ever !!!!!
One of the few actors to win both the Tony and the Oscar for playing the same role on stage and on film.
It is too bad that today's actresses and actors can no longer hold a candle to the style and grace Shirley Booth displayed in accepting this award. Instead they have to make political statements or bloviate over topics which are filled with hatred, partisanship and sexism at best. The Academy Awards presentations of today are a far cry from this time in their existence. A far cry and a world apart from the grace this woman displayed back then. The acting of everyone in this movie was superb in every sense of the word.
I agree. Gary Oldman was a bit of a throwback this year, but the actors of the past certainly had more class and restraint than many today.
Huh?? there wad alot of old actors & actresses back than who were very political...do your homework, some spoke up about the disgusting racism and hatered back than, some protest the mistreatment of minorties. Hello back than was full of racism and segregation, alot of them protest by not attending. And you have alot of great actress today that can hold a candle, Meryl Streep, Kate Winset, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Dame Helen Miriam, Julia Roberts, Nicole kidman, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Lange, Susan Surrandon, they are the greatest actresses today...Stop fucking reaching, just because you dont like what they say doesnt mean they are not reaching the unspoken, like the minorities that this fucked up president has said dispararging and racist things about...they have a right to speak up its all First Amendment right. You people just dont want to hear the truth because you worship this horrible president. But don't put todays amazing female actress down because they are out spoken. Why can't you people watch this and admire her and without putting todays actresses down with that holding the candle bullshit...which is wrong because there is alot of actresses today that were way better than past actresses, Meryl Streep has 3 oscars and been nominated 30 times, she is concidered the greatest ever!...even bette Davis said Meryl Streep was the best actress of her time in the 1980s, she had legends that were still alive who did movies in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s who praised Meryl and Glen Close. Not every actress back than were all great...That had to put up a fake Facade as these perfect white washed persona's to make white America Happy and comfortable. They still margalized black and latinos actors and treated them cruelly...So don't give me none of that bullshit that everything was perfect and dandy back than, it was a scary dark period for minorties than. At least today they are acknowledging Minorites and seeing more black women and men as leading role and winning more oscars and awards, and they are holding a big movie, today we can say we saw the first all black cast hold and break a box office record with the black Pather, at least thid country has mixture of different races being acknowlegded because times are evolving and you have extroadinary black actresses today, and latina actresss today, that were put down and treated inhumane in the 1950s and were ignored, and looked over and had so meny disgusting stereostypes, at least hollywood is now giving women more better roles, paying them the same amount as men and making them leading characters in movies. Back than white women and minorties had to put on a fake persona and were looked at as second class citiziens, and never got paid well, only the men got paid more, they were margalized, nowadays they have changed that, and I see more black women being acknowledged more...So fuck off with all that shit, about it was better....it was better for white people like you. And people like you are stuck in the past and can't evolve and move with the times. At least women and minorites are getting some respect and dignity today than back than, because we all know this president today don't respect them. Marlon Brando & Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean martin, Montgomery cliff, and meny more spoke out about the mistreatment of minorites in hollywood and some even went to congress...and even sent letters, some even spoke out on the presidents back than...so shut the hell up with all that crap.
@@junegiovanni6475 ...ooooookkkkkk. lol
Actors have a right to their opinion just like everybody else. And it's great that actors have a platform to speak out against racism and other forms of injustice. Bravo Hollywood. Bravo Meryl Streep! Bravo Frances McDormand!
Nice word (bloviate); I'll try to use it. BTW, you are so correct about today's BS in Hollyweird.
I adored Shirley Booth. If ANYONE deserved an Oscar for acting, she most certainly did. Brilliant acting in "Come Back Little Sheeba" AND other films. RIP Shirley
Of all the actor's throughout history to win Oscars, she is one of the most deserving. In my opinion, she created an empathetic character you wanted to wrap your arm's around and say everything's goin be alright Lola. Shirley Booth created a three dimensional person named Lola, a woman so lovable and delicate, it broke your heart to see her suffer. That's the power of film. That's also the power of Shirley Booth's performance, which is why she is so deserving. She's simply outstanding.
Jeff Kiper
Wonderfully put, Jeff.
It's interesting you said that. I saw this movie as a kid and have never wanted to give a film character a hug like I did Lola. She just breaks your heart.
Thanks.
1Rdby.....Come Back Little Sheba is no doubt, one of the finest movies ever made. Shirley Booth was an amazing actress. This movie is a must see for anyone and everybody. All about Alcoholism, love, loneliness, desperation, redemption and yes again, love.
man i cried on that film. im in a 20s ilike classic movies but damn this movie is so great
She played that part so well and definitely deserved the Oscar! She was also very good in "About Mrs Leslie," with Robert Ryan.
Such grace! She was so genuine and wonderful. What a fabulous artiste.
every moment that she spent in film should be stored in gold !
What a lovely speech. Shirley Booth was clearly a gracious and generous woman.
She didn't do a lot of movies, but Shirley Booth was one of America's finest actors!
Shirley Booth was wonderful in Come Back Little Sheba. She was the back bone of Burt's wonderful performance also.
+UFOSPACE1999
Lancaster was completely miscast as Doc and he knew it. Hard to believe the reality of a broken down chiropractor when he looks as if he just stepped off Muscle Beach wearing junior college production makeup. On the other hand, Paramount did not want Shirley Booth without a big name beside her, so I have mixed feelings about him. He did have some good scenes despite being all wrong for the part and clashing with Ms. Booth's uncompromising realism.
@@TheChannelTV-bt8em Yes, I agree. He was miscast.
Definitely in the top 5 of all best actress performances. Brilliant actress.
I know that is my own opinion. The Academy Awards have been handed out now for 94 years. Of all the best actress Oscars handed out since the beginning I put Shirley Booth's truly magnificent and deserving performance in Come Back, Little Sheba as my clear#1 choice. Even ahead of ladies like Bette Davis, Meryl Streep and Katharine Hepburn. The ones that come closest to the quality of the performance of Shirley Booth in this film are also from the 1950's. My #2 pick is the great Italian actress Anna Magnani in 1955's The Rose Tattoo followed by Vivien Leigh's performance in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951.
Most definitely Vivien Leigh in streetcar
Truly, she was one of the greatest artists of her craft in both Hollywood and Broadway history! Shirley Booth is one of only 23 actors/actresses who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: Oscar, Tony, and Emmy. Among thousands in that field, that is quite an accomplishment. Beyond her skills, however, Shirley was a humble, gracious, and loving individual, always putting others first. Her acceptance speech here is so indicative of that. Love her!
I remember Anne Francis calling Miss Booth "that devine Shirley Booth" on What's My Line. She was right on. What a charming, classy lady she was.
do you mean Arlene Francis?
Shirley Booth’s performance in come back little Sheba was one of the most heart wrenching and beautiful that I’ve ever seen in the movies. This was definitely one of the most well deserved Oscars of all time!
One incredible performance from an an incredible lady
So very richly deserved win for Shirley Booth for her magnificent performance in "Come Back, Little Sheba!
Tear jerker movie .Fine performance by Shirley Booth who also starred in the stage production of Come Back, Little Sheba
What a gracious short speech. Hollywood could learn a lot from this era. Thanks Ms. Booth for the memories.
One of the greatest and sweetest actresses of all time. Her acceptance speech is marvelous and her charm is just wonderful, this lady was superb in every way !!!!!
I love everything that Shirley Booth stars in. About Mrs. Leslie, is a really good film. It's a little tear jerker, but it's good.
Evette Thomas Nobody ever mentions About Mrs Leslie. I adore Shirley Booth and her roles were perfect for her. But none so much as Sheeba and Mrs Leslie. It took some time and effort to locate a copy of Mrs Leslie, and no one seems to appreciate it like I do. And then I read your comment. Thanks for bringing it to the attention of this thread.
@INTERNETWORK Thanks, I will watch it. I didn't know the movie existed. Wilder's Hello Dolly....what a cast too.
Such graciousness and class rarely exhibited and expressed! Shirley Booth was one of Hollywood's greatest actresses...and she was wonderful as, "Hazel", on TV, too. I love her!
Shirley Booth, Ronald Colman, and Frederic March. All the great stars, luminaries! It is very sad to think that there are many people who are watching this, and other You Tube Oscar vignettes, that do not have a clue who these great actors are. Thankfully, there is TCM. But too few people appreciate the talent here.
and Hope!
You'll Never Ever See Anything like this ever again, Shirley Booth gave an incredible acceptance speech like nobody does anymore, a very close runner up that year would have been, Susan Hayward, her performance in With a Song in my Heart was just as good and Epic !!!!!
Can you imagine an actor - of either gender - being this classy, articulate and brief today??? No cheesy political comments, no F-bombs, and no conductor hitting notes to get the the blabbermouths off the stage!!!! Even the great Meryl Streep made an ass out of herself.
What a doll! Loved her in the then, the now, and into the future! :D
The days when men and women dressed respectfully, with class and in intelligent words.
AMEN!!!
I like Asians.
@@TrangPakbaby we've petered out actually
Wayne Olsen Excuse me, but Miyoshi Umeki won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her tragic role in “Sayonara” only a few years later in 1957. She’s Japanese, and the only Asian to win an Oscar for acting. The wonderful Hattie McDaniel, an African American, became the first African American (“Negro” is an antiquated and offensive term) to win an Oscar for her brilliant turn in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.” Several African Americans have captured Oscars for their acting since. If Asians, Latinos and African Americans (not to mention Native Americans) were actually given roles, you would probably find a lot of them winning Oscars.
The immortal Ronald Colman, the man Olivier called the greatest SCREEN actor in the History of Cinema. Indeed, he had it all: the most beautiful speaking voice ever, the greatest practitioner of affective pantomime honed to perfection in his silent days that he carried forth into the talkies. Vincent Price recalled that the studios taught screen acting, and speech, by reference to Colman's performances...
Incredible talent coupled with elegance and class. It's what's missing today.
Easily the greatest performance that year and perhaps one of the top five greatest of all time. One thinks of a Sarah Bernhardt when you view Shirley Booth.
In my humble opinion, the GREATEST performance for an actress in any role.....BAR NONE. No other performance was as sweet, as real, as poignant as hers.
+David N
Worth repeating.
+David N
agreed 100% only one that comes close was Vivien Leigh in Streetcar
I agree 100%
Too bad there were no shots of the other nominees (Joan, Bette, Julie, and Susan). Shirley Booth is such a sensitive and engaging actress. Thanks for posting this clip!
The other 4 women might not have been there.
the technology was not there yet,,early tv sucked that way
@@notnek202 😂 Nah...they're all legends. They were there. 😊
Shirley Booth was so cute. What a great actress! God rest her. ❤
And a kiss from Fredric March to boot. Truly a blessed lady. ❤️❤️❤️
One of the saddest movies ever the ending is downright painful to watch. I cry like a baby every time I watch it. Ms Booth was amazing so is Burt Lancaster who plays her husband & Terry More great too.
A classy and talented lady who not only deserved to win with such a great performance but in addition could brag that she knocked Crawford and Davis out of the box that night!
In a film that over the years has brought tens of thousands to AA.
She was an underrated Hollywood gem and the epitome of grace and class. God rest her soul.
Very nice acceptance speech. Ms. Booth starred in a very short-lived sitcom in the early 70s titled, "A Touch of Grace." It's too bad it didn't last: it was a sweet endearing comedy
Such an eloquent speech and a much deserved win!
These were the years in the early to mid 50's when the Oscars had simultaneous broadcasts in Hollywood and NY and awards would go back and forth depending who won. The main reason was many film actors also appeared in Broadway plays and it was the years before jet travel.
Shirley Booth was absolutely amazing in all that she did , but everyone that cares about art should see ' come back , Little Sheba ' at least once , even if they need to have a prescription filled afterward ! it's that brilliant !
Her expression was perfect
Love this acceptance speech! Faith, Hope and Charity-sweet Shirley covers it all! What a special person and talented actress!! One of my favorite movies!
I just love this women’s acting! Good for her…Bless her heart
One of the greatest actresses ever.
Amazing performance. Well deserved Oscar and Tony for that role.
Superb work Deserved, her only competition was Julie Harris in the Member of the Wedding.
When I first discovered or I should 1st watched come back little Sheba on UA-cam. I promise you I have watched it almost every day and my feelings of sentiment just get deeper and deeper. It may just be me, but it does not seem like movie making is like this anymore she was spectacular and I still cry, tears of endearment I love this movie. I’m gonna watch it as a matter fact now.
Such a wonderful, gracious and humble speech.
Brooklyn's Own Shirley!
Truly Richly Deserved! Shirley Booth was Brilliant and Lovely and so Sad at times in Come Back, Little Sheba! Shirley Booth was 100% at all times, was Class! Even on TV Show Hazel. Much Live for one of the Best Actors Ever!
One of the best Oscar acceptance speeches EVER!!!
Bravo Bravo! That was some tough competition but she deserved it. She was known as a stage performer but I wish she'd made more movies.
Katherine Hepburn said some of her best roles were originated by Booth on Broadway.
And well deserved!!!! What a talented actress.
Where was it? I had always heard of the famous fall, but it was really nothing. The way the urban legend spread, it was as if Ms. Booth fell into the orchestra pit ! But it was really nothing and she professionally ignored it once onstage. A very classy person and great talent.
Urban legend indeed! I've heard that story, too, and when I started watching I expected her to fall flat on her face!
What a beautiful speech and her gorgeous smile ❤
She did the voice of Mrs. Claus in the Rankin/Bass Christmas special called The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974 TV).
Well deserved win for Mrs. Booth. One of my top 16 or maybe 15 most deserved Winners EVER in the catagory! :D Harris was terrific too (actually this posting was the day Before Harris died!). Great too se the great Mr. March in an Oscar apparance, the year after this at the Oscars, he was funny as hell! ;D;D And even MORE FUNNY AS HELL on whats my line?! ;D;D;D;D
Hope, faith and charity.
Today (August 30, 2014) would've been Shirley's 116th birthday!
I adore Shirley Booth ❤️
Such an amazing actress. Winner of several Tonys, Emmys and an Oscar. A real classy lady - most of her work was on the stage. I think she only made five films. She won basically every award for this performance - Oscar, Cannes, Golden Globes, NY Film Critics Circle Awards and National Board Of Review. She loved playing Hazel and brought real heart to the performance. One of our all time best actresses - at a time when actresses didn’t have to be stick thin, young and gorgeous. Olivia Colman and Kathy Bates are the only others since Booth who fit that description and who also won Oscars, but feel free to correct me (Charlize Theron and & Hilary Swank don’t count bcz they were lovely in real life). Any actor can take a lesson from Ms. Booth, she was so extraordinary. And I wish today’s Oscars were as respectful and short as they were back then - Bob Hope was a marvelous host!
Um ... Simone Signoret, Shelley Winters (twice), Geraldine Page, Margaret Rutherford, Lila Kedrova, Mo'Nique, Brenda Fricker, Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Hayes, Eileen Heckart, Maureen Stapleton, Linda Hunt, Olympia Dukakis, Jessica Tandy, were hardly stick thin, young, and gorgeous yet they all won Oscars.
Susan Hayward was so wonderful in the Jane Froman Story (With a Song in My Heart)
but this was a close race between the two of them and Shirley won all the other major
awards and she was very deserving,
The most beautiful acceptance speech ever. Gracious lady
Shirley Booth commanded her Oscar acceptance with class and excellence. And she out did some of the most talented and revered actresses of her day.
Inarguably one of the top 5 greatest female performances of all time! Shirley inhabited the character of Lola so well that one forgets she was acting!
Nice to see this. RIP Julie Harris
Don't worry Jennifer Lawrence!! She fell at the oscars too! :)
She was great and deserved to win. She tripped but so did Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Lawrence. Booth won every major award for this performance except the BAFTA so she was basically a shoo-in. Hayward won the Golden Globe for Comedy or Musical actress which is ironic considering that her movie was not a comedy and she did not sing a note. She was dubbed by the real Jane Froman.
I'm sorry but Susan Hayward could not compare to Shirley Booth's performance in '52. She was excellent in the role but Miss Booth was positively riveting as Lola Delaney. I am well aware that Miss Hayward did her own vocals in "Ill Cry Tomorrow".
WHAT? I was not comparing an accidental trip to a great performance! Where did you pull that from? All I stated was that Shirley Booth tripped and years later Streisand tripped and last year Lawrence tripped. That was all. Nothing to di with performances what so ever. Just an observation response to someone else's comment.
Marisa Tomei tripped in 1993, too!
and Grahame in the same year! :)
...what a Classy speech!... 😉
I adored her as Hazel - such a sweetheart wished i could have met her.
Full of grace and beauty
And everyone loves Hazel!
Love these historical hollywood footnotes
"Popular win" She not only won the Oscar, she also won N.Y Critics prize, National Board of Review and Cannes Film Festival Best Actress awards.
What a great speech. The idiocy of today’s actors are so bad I quit watching award shows. Beautiful lady.
She deserved the Tony and the Oscar for the most flawless performance in decades. Inge was so proud of her. She literally was the show!
She is so missed 💕🌹🌷👏
Miss Booth gave the performance of her career in Come back little sheba🌷🥂👀
Such a great actress❤
Huge Burt Lancaster fan, they both gave noteworthy performances.
I Love her so much.