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Who's Who in the Cast

SHIRLEY BOOTH (Mother Maria) returns to the Broadway stage in Look to the Lilies after a ten-year hiatus, six years spent delighting television viewers as the star of the phenomenally successful comedy series Hazel. Her portrayal of the warm and wise housekeeper won Miss Booth millions of fans and friends and a roomful of awards. Born and raised in New York City, Miss Booth made her first stage appearance in a Hartford, Connecticut stock company, then toured in The Cat and the Canary with Lee Tracy. She soon made her Broadway debut opposite Humphrey Bogart in Hell's Bells, and went on to perform in such Broadway plays as Laff That Off, Buy, Baby Buy, High Gear, The War Song, The School for Virture, The Camels Are Coming, Coastwise, The Mask and the Face, After Such Pleasures and Sunday Night at Nine. Recognition for Miss Booth's prodigious talents occurred when she bowled over the opening night critics with her performances as Mabel in George Abbott's now-legendary production of Three Men On A Horse then in Victor Wolfson's Excursion, after which followed a long series of dramatic, comic and musical successes - among them The Philadelphia Story, My Sister Eileen, Tomorrow the World, Goodbye, My Fancy, Come Back, Little Sheba, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Time of the Cuckoo, By the Beautiful Sea and The Desk Set. Miss Booth made her screen debut repeating the role of Lola, which she had created on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba, and won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress. Her other films include About Mrs. Leslie, Hot Spell and The Matchmaker, in which she played the celebrated Dolly Levi. Since Hazel, Miss Booth portrayed Amanda Wingfield in a television special of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, and starred in summer tours of Nina and The Late Christopher Bean. Miss Booth relaxes at her home in La Quinta, near Palm Desert, the place President Eisenhower spent so many enjoyable hours, where she pursues her favorite hobbies of gardening, shopping for antiques and needlework. Broadway welcomes back one of its most gifted and beloved stars.

AL FREEMAN, JR. (Homer Smith) has in the past few years won a strong following both in New York and Hollywood, with major film roles in Le Roi Jones' Dutchman, Frank Sinatra's The Detective, Finian's Rainbow with Fred Astaire, Castle Keep with Burt Lancaster and The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier. Last seen by Broadway audiences in The Dozens it was his performance in James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie which brought his first real acclaim in the New York theater. A summer tour with Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun had led to his role in Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright on Broadway. He then joined The Living Premise, the improvisational theater company which also spawned such talents as Godfrey Cambridge, Diana Sands and director Ted Flicker, later starring in the original production of Dutchman and the off-Broadway successes, Trumpets of the Lord and The Slave. He has shown his versatility by playing important roles at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Television audiences have seen him on every major dramatic show on all the networks including Judd For the Defense and The FBI. He was recently hailed as the star, opposite Patty Duke, of the NBC-TV World Premiere presentation of My Sweet Charlie, which is now being shown in motion picture theatres. The son of jazz pianist and arranger Al Freeman, he was born in San Antonio, Texas and educated at City College in Los Angeles. He is married to Sevara Clemons, a former dancer.

TITOS VANDIS (Juan) is best known to American film and theatergoers as Yorgo, Melina Mercouri's fun-loving compatriot in the film Never on Sunday and the Broadway musical version, Illya, Darling. Mr. Vandis had made his American debut in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, and later co-starred on Broadway in The Guide. In his native Greece, Mr. Vandis acted in more than 250 plays, ranging from Sophocles to Shakespeare to Harry Brock in Born Yesterday. He has acted with the National Theater of Greece, the Kotopouli Theater and the Greek Popular Theater. In addition to Never on Sunday, his film appearances include Stiletto, Topkapi, It Happened in Athens and The Island of Love. On television, he has guest-starred on Hawaii Five-O, The Flying Nun, Mission Impossible and The Good Guys. At the Greek film festival in 1962, Mr. Vandis won the prize as the best leading Greek actor.

TAINA ELG (Sister Albertine) is native of Finland, where she originally trained as a ballet dancer at the Finnish Opera and then with the Royal Ballet in London. She toured with several ballet companies. Later she was under contract to MGM for six years, and has appeared in films, most notably Les Girls, Gaby, Imitation General and Thirty-Nine steps. Her plays include Paul and Constantine with James Mason, Tender Trap, Invitation to the Castle and the National tour of There's A Girl In My Soup. Her musicals include the National tour of Irma La Douce, Redhead, Can-Can, Silk Stockings, West Side Story and I Married an Angel. Television viewers have seen Miss Elg on the Bell Telephone Hour, Perry Como Show, The Chevy Show, Wagon Train and It Takes A Thief.

CARMEN ALVAREZ (Rosita), last season was applauded as the tragic widow in Zorba. Providence sent Miss Alvarez from Rhode Island to Broadway, where she first sang and danced as sultry Moonbeam McSwine in L'il Abner, repeating her role on screen. Successive Broadway seasons saw her in such top roles as Anita in West Side Story and Rose opposite Dick Van Dyke in Bye, Bye, Birdie. After playing Robert Preston's leading lady in We Take the Town, the versatile Miss Alvarez was picked to alternate with Barbara Harris

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