Carol Channing photos through the years
Carol Channing, the last of a generation of Broadway musical stars with oversized personalities and a trouper’s dedication to touring America, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, in Rancho Mirage, California, her publicist said. She was 97.
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Carol Channing on her balcony overlooking Central Park on May 17, 1974.
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Channing Lowe plays the tonette for his mother, Carol Channing, at their apartment at the Mayflower Hotel in New York on March 17, 1961.
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Carol Channing at her home overlooking Central Park on May 17, 1974, discusses her diet.
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Carol Channing at her home overlooking Central Park on May 17, 1974.
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Entertainer Carol Channing returns to the city for the revival of the Broadway classic "Hello Dolly," a Tony-Award winning role of hers, on March 11, 1994.
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Actress Gwen Verdon, right, pins a diamond brooch on actress-singer Carol Channing for the 43rd Tony Awards ceremony in New York City on June 4, 1989. Both Channing and Verdon, who were presenting awards, were loaned diamond jewelry from Tiffany's for the show.
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Actress Carol Channing in 1987.
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor flanked by Rock Hudson and Carol Channing on Aug. 11, 1982, in New York.
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Actress Carol Channing at Jack Lemmon's party at Cachaca Restaurant in New York on June 19, 1978.
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Carol Channing, star of the original "Hello, Dolly," is back on Broadway in a revival of the show. The musical had its first preview performance on March 2, 1978.
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Carol Channing and Robert Morse clown around during a rehearsal of "Sugar Babies" in New York on July 18, 1977.
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Carol Channing, right, talks with Angela Lansbury, star of the Broadway show "Mame" on March 13, 1967.
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Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Democratic vice presidential candidate, poses with Carol Channing while waiting to speak at a meeting of scientists and engineers on Oct. 11, 1964, in Washington.
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Carol Channing stands alongside her watercolor, "San Francisco Boy," at an arts benefit preview at the Downtown Gallery in New York on Sept. 10, 1963.
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Actress and comedian Carol Channing performs in her first nightclub opening appearance in Las Vegas on July 9, 1957. Channing wears an $11.85 costume as she impersonates Marlene Dietrich, who had appeared on a neighboring stage in a $20,000 gown.
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Carol Channing poses for a photocall outside the Drury Lane Theatre in London, wearing her costume from the musical "Hello, Dolly!" on Aug. 20, 1979.
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Actor Sid Caesar, left, and Carol Channing with director and author-of-record Abe Burrows after the opening of the new comedy "Four on a Garden" at the Broadhurst Theatre on Jan. 30, 1971, in New York.
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