For God's sake - this movie. I just watched (and struggled to finish) "About Mrs. Leslie" which featured Robert Ryan and the much-lauded and much-overrated Shirley Booth. Since I could not stomach her characterization in that movie, I wanted to see her highly praised, Oscar-winning performance in this role. Again, I was not impressed and I disliked this performance even more so than in the first film.
As other reviewers have probably noted and I did not feel like wasting my time reading, Booth's character is married to Doc (or as SHE calls him: Daddy), played by the intense Burt Lancaster, a recovering alcoholic attending weekly AA meetings. Well, I can tell you that if I had to live with Booth's pathetic creature, I would go back to drinking. And it was an unbelievable feat of sheer endurance that Lancaster's character reached his 1-year birthday of sobriety at AA.
I do appreciate Booth's role and performance as Hazel in the early 1960's TV series and to date that is the only role for which she is convincing.
As other reviewers have probably noted and I did not feel like wasting my time reading, Booth's character is married to Doc (or as SHE calls him: Daddy), played by the intense Burt Lancaster, a recovering alcoholic attending weekly AA meetings. Well, I can tell you that if I had to live with Booth's pathetic creature, I would go back to drinking. And it was an unbelievable feat of sheer endurance that Lancaster's character reached his 1-year birthday of sobriety at AA.
I do appreciate Booth's role and performance as Hazel in the early 1960's TV series and to date that is the only role for which she is convincing.