Carol Channing Carol Elaine Channing (January 31, 1921 – January 15, 2019) was an American actress, singer, dancer and comedian who starred in Broadway and film musicals. Her characters usually had a fervent expressiveness and an easily identifiable voice, ...

(January 31, 1921 – January 15, 2019) was an American actress, singer, dancer, comedian, and voice artist. She won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Muzzy Van Hossmere in ''

Thoroughly Modern Millie ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' is a 1967 American musical- romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay, by Richard Morris based on the 1956 British musical ''Chrysanthemum'', follows a naïve you ...

'' (1967). Other film appearances include '' The First Traveling Saleslady'' (1956) and '' Skidoo'' (1968). On television she has made many appearances as an entertainer on variety shows, from ''

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'' in the 1950s to ''

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''. She is also known for her performance as The White Queen in a 1985 production of '' Alice in Wonderland''. On television, Channing appeared on numerous television shows beginning in the early 1950s. Her husband at the time produced the

Burns and Allen Burns and Allen was an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen. They worked together as a successful comedy team that entertained vaudeville, film, radio, and television audiences for over forty years. The duo ...

comedy show, which starred

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and

Gracie Allen Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964) was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man, ...

."Enchanting Channing: 'Oh, oh, oh, fellas; look at the old girl now, fellas'",''The Orlando Sentinel'' Nov. 24, 1978 When Allen was forced to discontinue performing due to medical problems, Lowe asked Channing to take over Allen's role. Since the late 1950s she worked on and off with Burns, who appeared with her in 1966 on the TV special, ''An Evening with Carol Channing''. She had guest appearances on sitcoms and talk shows, including ''

What's My Line? ''What's My Line?'' is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelis ...

'', where she appeared in 11 episodes from 1962 to 1966. Channing did voice-over work in cartoons, most notably as Grandmama in an animated version of ''

The Addams Family ''The Addams Family'' is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in ''The New Yorker'' over ...

'' from 1992-95. On ''

Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...

'' in 1986 she sang a parody of the song " Hello, Dolly!" called "Hello, Sammy!", as a love song to Sammy the Snake. In 1993, she poked a little fun at herself in an episode of ''

The Nanny ''The Nanny'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashionista from Flushing, Queens, New York, who becomes the nanny of three ch ...

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

Cast recordings and soundtracks

* ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'', Columbia Records, 1950 * ''

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: a back-alley opera'' (with

Eddie Bracken Edward Vincent Bracken (February 7, 1915 – November 14, 2002) was an American actor. Bracken became a Hollywood comedy legend with lead performances in the films '' Hail the Conquering Hero'' and '' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' both from ...

), Columbia, 1954 * ''Show Girl'', Roulette Records, 1961 * ''Hello, Dolly!'',

RCA Records RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also A ...

, 1964 * ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', Decca Records, 1967 * ''Lorelei'', Decca, 1974 * ''Hello, Dolly!'' revival,

Varèse Sarabande Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, owned by Concord Music Group and distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings. It aims to reissue rare or unavailable albums, as well as newer r ...

, 1994

Studio albums and live recordings

* ''Carol Channing'',

Vanguard Records Vanguard Recording Society is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City. It was a primarily classical label at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, but also has a catalogue of recordings by a n ...

, 1961 * ''Carol Channing Entertains'', Command Records, 1965 * ''C and W'' (with

Webb Pierce Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky-tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the ...

Plantation Records Plantation Records was a country music record label of the 1960s and 1970s helmed by Shelby Singleton. The label is best known for Jeannie C. Riley's 1968 hit "Harper Valley PTA", which topped both the country and ''Billboard'' Hot 100 charts. ...

, 1976 * ''Kidding Around with Carol Channing and the Kids'', Caedmon, 1976 * ''Carol Channing and Her Country Friends'' (with

Jimmy C. Newman Jimmy Yves Newman (August 29, 1927 – June 21, 2014), better known as Jimmy C. Newman (the C stands for Cajun), was an American country music and cajun singer-songwriter and long-time star of the Grand Ole Opry. Early life Newman was born ...

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, and others), Plantation Records, 1977 * ''Carol Channing on Tour'', 51 West Records, 1980 * ''Jazz Baby'',

DRG Records MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had ...

. 1994 * ''For Heaven's Sake'', New Day Records, 2010 * ''True to the Red, White, and Blue'', Homesick Entertainment, 2012

Spoken word and audiobooks

* ''Madeline and Other Bemelmans'' told by Carol Channing,

Caedmon Records Caedmon Audio and HarperCollins Audio are record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers that specialize in audiobooks and other literary content. Formerly Caedmon Records, its marketing tag-line was Caedmon: a Third Dimension for the Printe ...

, 1959 * ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Lorelei's Diary)'', Caedmon, 1962 * ''Carol Channing reads and sings'': ''Roland the Minstrel Pig'' ; ''Loudmouse'' ; ''Tom, Sue, and the Clock'' ; ''The "B" Book'', Caedmon, 1969 * ''

The Year Without a Santa Claus ''The Year Without a Santa Claus'' is a 1974 stop motion animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name. It is narrated by Shirley Booth (her final ...

'' read by Carol Channing, Caedmon, 1969 * Carol Channing reads ''

Madeline and the Gypsies ''Madeline and the Gypsies'' is a children's picture book by Ludwig Bemelmans featuring Bemelman's popular character Madeline. It was first published in 1959 by Viking Press under the Viking Juvenile imprint. Plot Pepito, the son of the Spanish A ...

'', Caedmon, 1970 * ''

Winnie-The-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first collection of stories about the character was the book ''Win ...

'' told and sung by Carol Channing, Caedmon, 1972 * ''

Peter and the Wolf ''Peter and the Wolf'' ( rus, Петя и Bолк, r="Pétya i volk", p=ˈpʲetʲə i volk, links=no) Op. 67, a "symphonic fairy tale for children", is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's s ...

and Tubby the Tuba'', Caedmon, 1979 * Carol Channing reads '' The Purple Cow'', Caedmon, 1981 * ''

The House at Pooh Corner ''The House at Pooh Corner'' (1928) is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. It is notable for the introduction of the character Tigger. Plot The title comes from a stor ...

'' told and sung by Carol Channing, Caedmon, 1981 * ''Carol Channing Sings the Pooh Song Book'', Caedmon, 1983 * ''Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin'' told and sung by Carol Channing, Caedmon, 1984 * ''Just Lucky, I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts'', 2017''Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts'' audiobook
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References

External links

* * {{IMDb name, 0151919, Carol Channing Channing, Carol Channing, Carol