Carol Channing

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Carol Channing (photography by Allan Warren , 1973)

Carol Elaine Channing (born January 31, 1921 in Seattle , Washington - † January 15, 2019 in Rancho Mirage , California ) was an American singer and actress who is considered the legend of New York Broadway .

life and career

Carol Channing was the daughter of a newspaper editor and had German and Afro-American ancestors. After leaving Bennington College after a year, she had been a stage actress in New York since the early 1940s. Channing celebrated the breakthrough from 1949 with the successful musical Blondes, preferably in the role of the materialistic blonde Lorelei Lee . In the Howard Hawks film of the same name , however, Marilyn Monroe took over her role. Channing continued her Broadway career and received Tony Award nominations for her appearances on The Vamp (1954) and Show Girl (1961) .

She celebrated her probably greatest success in the original production of the musical classic Hello, Dolly! (1964), in which she played matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi . She embodied this role, which brought her the Tony Award , then in over 5000 performances and revived it again and again over the decades. Her hallmarks were the rough voice and her big smile. In 1995 she received another Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame . When she was over 90, she performed a stage program in which she sang anecdotes from her life and songs from her musicals.

In addition to her extensive work on Broadway , she also appeared in around 30 film and television productions between 1950 and 2006. For her role in searching Rich man - Modern Millie (1967) on the side of Julie Andrews , she received an award at the Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress .

Channing was married a total of four times; her first two marriages were divorced, and she survived her last two husbands. Her son is the cartoonist Channing Carson. In 2002 she published her autobiography Just Lucky I Guess , a documentary about her life that was made in 2012 under the title Larger Than Life . She died in January 2019, around two weeks before her 98th birthday.

Carol Channing (2009)

Filmography

Movie

  • 1950: Paid in Full
  • 1956: The First Traveling Saleslady
  • 1967: All About People
  • 1967: Modern Millie - Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • 1968: Skidoo
  • 1971: Shinbone Alley
  • 1978: Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • 1985: Alice in Wonderland
  • 1993: Happily Ever After
  • 1994: Thumbelina
  • 1998: Homo Heights
  • 1998: The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
  • 2003: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
  • 2011: Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Television (selection)

  • 1957: The Red Skelton Show, Starring Red Skelton
  • 1958: The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • 1962–1966: What's My Line?
  • 1971–1972: The Flip Wilson Show
  • 1980: The Muppet Show (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1981: Love Boat (TV series, 7 episodes)
  • 1983: Magnum (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1983: Parade of Stars
  • 1985: Alice in Wonderland ( Alice in Wonderland )
  • 1988: Sesame Street (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1989: Chip and Chap - The Knights of Law (cartoon series, voice)
  • 1991: Where's Waldo?
  • 1992: The Addams Family (animated series, voice)
  • 1993: 2 Stupid Dogs
  • 1993: The Nanny (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1994: The Magic School Bus (cartoon series, voice)
  • 1994: Burke's Law (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1995: Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Girlie Show
  • 1997: A Touch of Heaven (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2006: Family Guy : (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2009: Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List: 'Kathy Is a Star… Kind Of'

theatre

  • 1941: No For an Answer
  • 1941: Let's Face It!
  • 1942: Proof Thro 'the Night
  • 1948: Lend an Ear
  • 1949; 1951: Blondes preferred
  • 1953: Pygmalion
  • 1954: Wonderful Town
  • 1955: The Vamp
  • 1959: show business
  • 1961: Show Girl
  • 1963: The Millionairess
  • 1964; 1977; 1981; 1994: Hello, Dolly!
  • 1971: Four on a Garden
  • 1973: Lorelei
  • 1974: Julie's Friends at the Palace
  • 1976: The Bed Before Yesterday
  • 1980: Sugar Babies
  • 1984: Jerry's Girls
  • 1985: Legends
  • 1987: Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! or Night of 100 Years
  • 1988: Broadway at the Bowl
  • 1991: Give My Regards to Broadway
  • 2003: Singular Sensations
  • 2004: Razzle Dazzle!
  • 2005: Carol Channing: The First Eighty Years Are the Hardest

Awards (selection)

  • 1960: Star on the Walk of Fame (6233 Hollywood Blvd.)
  • 1964: Tony Award , Best Actress in a Musical , for Hello, Dolly!
  • 1967: Golden Apple Award for Female Star of the Year
  • 1967: Nomination for Laurel Award , Best Supporting Actress, for Modern Millie
  • 1968: Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actress, for Modern Millie
  • 1968: Golden Globe , Best Supporting Actress, for Modern Millie - Wanted for Rich Man
  • 1979: Nomination for the Olivier Award , Best Actress in a Musical, for Hello, Dolly!
  • 1995: Tony Award , Lifetime Achievement Award

Web links

Commons : Carol Channing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Broadway legend Carol Channing dies at age 97. In: fvs12.com. January 15, 2019, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  2. Maiysha Kai: Broadway Legend Carol Channing Dies at 97, 'Proud as Can Be' of Her Black Heritage. Retrieved January 16, 2019 (American English).
  3. Hello Dolly's Carol Channing dies aged 97 . January 15, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed January 16, 2019]).
  4. Broadway Legend: Carol Channing is dead . In: Spiegel Online . January 15, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 16, 2019]).
  5. Lisa Respers France CNN: Carol Channing, star of Broadway's 'Hello Dolly!' dies at 97. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
  6. Carol Channing. Retrieved February 4, 2015 .
  7. Carol Channing. Retrieved February 3, 2015 .