VideoCBS Sunday Morning Remembers Carol ChanningInterview clips, performance highlights, and more in honor of the Tony winner’s passing.
By
Ruthie Fierberg
January 22, 2019
Theatre legend Carol Channing passed away January 15. Broadway dimmed its lights January 16—which happened to be the 55th anniversary of the opening of Hello, Dolly! on Broadway. CBS Sunday Morning commemorated the life and career of Channing during the January 20 broadcast of the morning show.
In a clip from her 2005 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Channing said, “My goal ever since the fourth grade when I was seven years old was to lift people’s lives.”
Channing was synonymous with Dolly Gallagher Levi, a role she played over 5,000 times and into her ’70s. She claimed that after every performance, “I'd either feel better or I'd feel cured.” (Channing wrote of her battle with ovarian cancer in her 2002 memoir Just Lucky I Guess.) Watch the full memorial celebration in the video above.
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Celebrating the Life of the Great Carol Channing
Celebrating the Life of the Great Carol Channing
Look back at the career of the iconic musical theatre legend, who died January 15, 2019, at 97.
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Carol Channing
Carol Channing in Show Girl
Carol Channing and cast in Wonderful Town
David Burns and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
Elliott Reid and Carol Channing in The Bed Before Yesterday
Eddie Bracken and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
Eddie Bracken and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
Jay Garner and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
Carol Channing in performance with Hello, Dolly! in 1995
Carol Channing, 1965
Carol Channing, 1978
Carol Channing, 1995
Carol Channing and Robert Morse in Sugar Babies
Carol Channing and cast in Sugar Babies
Robert Morse and Carol Channing in Sugar Babies
1995: Isabelle Stevenson, longtime chairman of the American Theatre Wing (center), with Carol Burnett (right) and Lifetime Achievement Tony Award recipient Carol Channing
Carol Channing in the Opening Number at Gypsy of the Year in 2010
