Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)

Subject: Obit: Carol Channing (1921 - 2019)
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 11:43 AM

Carol Channing was born on January 31, 1921, so she didn't quite get to Birthday Number Ninety-Eight. The obit announcements are calling her age 97, therefore. I thought she would never die.

Subject: RE: Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 08:54 PM

And I didn't realize she was still alive. She sure was something! In the days when people were putting celebrity voices on their answering machines, I wanted her distinctive voice and accent.

Subject: RE: Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:53 AM

If you drop Channing's name into the Internet Broadway Database you'll see she first enters the scene in 1941. The Internet Theater Database seems to be fan generated and hasn't caught up to her death, but it also shows an enduring career.

Subject: RE: Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 12:59 PM

RIP Miss Channing.

Subject: RE: Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:15 PM

About Carol Channing, from Rex Reed (about seven years ago).

Subject: RE: Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)
From: gillymor
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:20 PM

Goodbye, Dolly.

Subject: RE: Obit: Carol Channing (1921-2019)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:34 PM

Al Hirschfeld, the cartoonist whose drawings became part of show business history themselves, died before Carol Channing did.
However,
his foundation preserves many cartoons that he drew of Carol Channing.

One of them changed her career, according to reports in
some of Channing's obituary/death notices.
Look to the far right of "Supporting Players," from 1949, and there is Carol Channing looking like a flapper with her short dress and cloche hat.

The story goes that Anita Loos and her theater playwright adapters were getting ready to cast
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
They happened to see the Hirschfeld "Supporting Players" drawing
in a newspaper,
and Anita Loos said: "That's my Lorelei Lee."

Carol Channing went on to sing
"Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" onstage
(it was done by Marilyn Monroe in the film),
and went on to make Broadway history.