Booth returned to motion pictures to star in two more films for Paramount Pictures, playing Dolly Gallagher Levi in the 1958 film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's romance/comedy "The Matchmaker" (the source text for the musical "Hello, Dolly!"), and to play Alma Duval in the drama "Hot Spell" (1958). For her performances in both films, Booth was nominated as the year's Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle (Susan Hayward won for her portrayal of executed murderer Barbara Graham in "I Want to Live!").