Hazel: The Countess
11:30 am - 12:00 pm, Tuesday, November 4 on WTIC Antenna TV (61.2)
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The Countess
Season 3, Episode 24
Hazel gets the royal treatment when it's learned she may be a countess. Shirley Booth, Don DeFore, Whitney Blake. Reginald: Lester Matthews. Butterworth: Russell Collins.
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1964
English
HD Level Unknown
Comedy
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Shirley Booth
(Actor)
.. Hazel Burke
Don DeFore
(Actor)
.. George Baxter
Lester Matthews
(Actor)
.. Reginald
Russell Collins
(Actor)
.. Butterworth
Whitney Blake
(Actor)
.. Dorothy Baxter
Maudie Prickett
(Actor)
.. Rosie
Howard Smith
(Actor)
.. Harvey Griffin
Bobby Buntrock
(Actor)
.. Harold Baxter
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Did You Know..
Shirley Booth
(Actor)
.. Hazel Burke
Born:
August 30, 1898
Died: October 16, 1992
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: October 16, 1992
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Trivia:
Born Thelma Ford, Shirley Booth began appearing in amateur plays at age 12, then made her professional stage debut four years later; her Broadway debut, in 1925, was opposite Humphrey Bogart in Hells' Bells. Booth toiled on Broadway for a decade before being cast in her first significant role. Ultimately, her work on stage and radio led to a lead role in Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), for which she won the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Award; she made her screen debut in the film version of that play (1952) and won the Best Actress Oscar for her efforts. Booth did a number of other films, but in her later years she was best-known as the maid Hazel in the TV series Hazel (1961-66). She retired after appearing in the TV series A Touch of Grace (1973).
Don DeFore
(Actor)
.. George Baxter
Born:
August 25, 1917
Died: December 22, 1993
Died: December 22, 1993
Trivia:
Character actor Don Defore was the son of an Iowa-based locomotive engineer. His first taste of acting came while appearing in church plays directed by his mother. Defore briefly thought of becoming an attorney, but gave up a scholarship to the University of Iowa to study at the Pasadena Playhouse. He began appearing in films in 1937 and in professional theatre in 1938, billed under his given name of Deforest. Defore's career turning point was the Broadway play The Male Animal, in which he played a thickheaded college football player; he repeated the role in the 1942 film version, and later played a larger part in the 1952 remake She's Working Her Way Through College. In most of his film assignments, Defore was cast as the good-natured urbanized "rube" who didn't get the girl. For several years in the 1950s, Defore played "Thorny" Thornberry, the Nelson family's well-meaning next door neighbor, on TV's Ozzie and Harriet. Don Defore's best-known TV role was George Baxter on the Shirley Booth sitcom Hazel (1961-65).
Lester Matthews
(Actor)
.. Reginald
Born:
December 03, 1900
Died: June 06, 1975
Died: June 06, 1975
Trivia:
Moderately successful as a leading man in British films from 1931 through 1934, Lester Matthews moved to the U.S. in the company of his then-wife, actress Anne Grey. Though Grey faded from view after a handful of Hollywood pictures (Break of Hearts [35] and Bonnie Scotland [35] among them), Matthews remained in Tinseltown until his retirement in 1968. At first, his roles were substantial, notably his romantic-lead stints in the Karloff/Lugosi nightmare-inducer The Raven (35) and the thoughtful sci-fier Werewolf of London (35), which starred Henry Hull in the title role. Thereafter, Matthews was consigned to supporting roles, often as British travel agents, bankers, solicitors, company clerks and military officers. Active in films, radio and television throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Lester Matthews was last seen in the Julie Andrews musical Star (1968).
Russell Collins
(Actor)
.. Butterworth
Born:
January 01, 1899
Died: January 01, 1965
Died: January 01, 1965
Whitney Blake
(Actor)
.. Dorothy Baxter
Born:
February 20, 1926
Maudie Prickett
(Actor)
.. Rosie
Born:
January 01, 1913
Died: January 01, 1976
Died: January 01, 1976
Howard Smith
(Actor)
.. Harvey Griffin
Born:
August 12, 1894
Died: January 10, 1968
Died: January 10, 1968
Trivia:
An imposing presence in films of the late '40s, as well as early television shows such as The Aldrich Family (1949), New York stage actor Howard I. Smith actually made his screen debut as far back as 1918, in Young America. Relocating to Hollywood in 1946, Smith usually played overbearing politicos or other figures of authority, but is perhaps best remembered today as Uncle Charley in the 1951 screen version Death of a Salesman.
Bobby Buntrock
(Actor)
.. Harold Baxter
Born:
January 01, 1952
Died: January 01, 1974
Died: January 01, 1974
