Carol Channing: Life In Photos

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Carol Channing gives major face at a 1988 photoshoot for Sotheby’s

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Gorgeous! This is Carol in 1950, when she was just 29 years old

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Carol was a hoot on ‘Laugh-In’ in the 60s!

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Carol performs at her first nightclub show in Las Vegas, imitating Marlene Dietrich. Guess what? That entire costume cost less than $12 — and Marlene’s cost $20,000!

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

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Obsessed with this hat she wore during a 1973 appearance on ‘Russell Harty Plus’

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Here, Carol stars with Ginger Rogers in the 1956 classic ‘First Traveling Saleslady’

 

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

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Carol looked beautiful as a brunette, too! 

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Another perfect outfit on another episode of ‘The Russell Harty Show’ in 1976 

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Carol Channing poses outside the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in this adorable outfit in 1979

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Look at these pearls! Only Carol would dress like this for the Grammy Awards

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Carol signs a caricature at her home in Beverly Hills in 1997. What a good sport! 

 

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Aww! Carol posed with a toddler dressed as her ‘Hello, Dolly!’ character after an NYC performance of the show 

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Carol brought out her husband, Harry Kullijian, during a performance of her one-woman show in NYC. Harry sadly died in 2011, the day before his 92nd birthday

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Carol Channing: Life In Photos

Carol Channing: Life In Photos
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Here, Carol is all smiles at George Burns’ birthday in Beverly Hills years ago. 

 

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