Kathy Pinna
Carol Channing, 1971
A photo of Carol Channing performing on stage in 1971.
Carol Channing was born in Seattle WA in 1921 and, after her parents moved when she was 2 wks old, raised in San Francisco CA. (Her mother was of German Jewish descent and her father was African-American and German.) Attending Bennington College at the age of 16, she majored in drama. Moving to New York, she began a storied stage, movie, and tv career that lasted until (almost) her death.
She was married four times (her only child, a son, was the product of her second marriage) - the last time to her junior high school sweetheart, who died at the age of 92, eight years into their marriage.
Ms Channing died on January 15, 2019, 16 days before her 98th birthday.
Carol Channing was born in Seattle WA in 1921 and, after her parents moved when she was 2 wks old, raised in San Francisco CA. (Her mother was of German Jewish descent and her father was African-American and German.) Attending Bennington College at the age of 16, she majored in drama. Moving to New York, she began a storied stage, movie, and tv career that lasted until (almost) her death.
She was married four times (her only child, a son, was the product of her second marriage) - the last time to her junior high school sweetheart, who died at the age of 92, eight years into their marriage.
Ms Channing died on January 15, 2019, 16 days before her 98th birthday.
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in New York, New York United States
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