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Carol Elaine Channing (b. January 31 1921, Seattle, Washington) is an United States|American singer and actor|actress. The recipient of three Tony Awards (including one for lifetime achievement), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award|Oscar nomination, Channing is best remembered for her role Lorelei Lee in ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)|Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'', and as Dolly Gallagher Levi in ''Hello, Dolly! (musical)|Hello, Dolly!''.
She is world renowned for her reedy voice, her wide eyes and smile, and her star presence. Her distinctive voice and persona are frequently parodied.
Childhood and education
An only child, Channing was born in Seattle, Washington. Her father was George Channing, a journalist, whose newspaper career took the family to San Francisco when Channing was only two weeks old; her mother was the former Carol Glaser. She went to school at Aptos Junior High School, where she met and fell in love with an Armenian-American boy named Harry Kullijian. They lost touch when she went to Lowell High School (San Francisco)|Lowell High School in San Francisco. At Lowell, Channing was a member of its famed Lowell Forensic Society, the nation's oldest high school debate team.
According to Channing's memoirs, when she left home to attend Bennington College in Vermont, her mother informed her that her father, a journalist who Carol had believed was bor... read all
