Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#1Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 12:48pm
Hope Carol is still crowing and going strong today. Reminiscing by looking at photos I took of Carol at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011. Carol wasn't feeling well that day, but she was a trouper. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Carol-Channing-at-LARGER-THAN-LIFE-Premiere-at-Tribeca-Film-Festival-20110502
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#2Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 1:02pm
I maintain that Carol Channing is the funniest woman alive. She is just so ridiculously magnificent. We all, as theatergoers, as people, are lucky to have her many wonderful gifts to the world, from Dolly to Lorelei to maybe the most fabulous line ever uttered in a movie ("raspberries!"
. The happiest of birthdays to her.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#3Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 1:07pm
I love her. She deserves all the best.
#4Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 1:34pm
I always loved what Betty White, who played Dolly in a 1979 summer stock production with the Kenley Players in Ohio, had to say..... quote from Betty's book "Here We Go Again":
"You can imagine what went on when I told my buddy Carol Channing that I was doing HER show. To this day, whenever the subject comes up, I lie and tell her how EVERYONE said we were SO much better than the original Broadway company. Carol's response is always a flat "Your mother said what?"
Happy Birthday dear Carol!
#5Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 2:14pm
One of the living legends. Happy Birthday to Carol!
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#6Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 4:06pm
I hope she gets a much deserved Kennedy Center Honors soon.....very soon. Happy Birthday!
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#7Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 4:06pm
Thought she was 95 about 20 years ago, was she a smoker?
Stephanatic
#8Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 8:35pm
Channing was a health food nut before it was even fashionable. I recall reading she always carried on her own prepared food when boarding planes (much like Gloria Swanson). She may have smoked in her early years but I highly doubt she was a smoker after cigarettes were declared a health hazard in the sixties. And then there's that "corn" story.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#11Happy 95th Birthday Carol Channing
Posted: 1/31/16 at 10:11pm
I expect Fantod got a bunch of PMs. And I admire everyone's discretion.
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