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Carol Channing – a life in pictures
She faced off against a gun-toting Clint Eastwood, charmed Broadway in Hello, Dolly! and performed with the Muppets. A look back at the comedy legend’s career on stage and screen
Main image: Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! Photograph: Reg Wilson/REX/ShutterstockTue 15 Jan 2019 14.48 GMT Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 12.29 GMT
Clint Eastwood points a gun at Carol Channing in a publicity portrait for the film The First Traveling Saleslady, in 1956
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChanning models the Capitol dome-inspired hat that she wore to President Lyndon Johnson’s inaugural gala in 1965
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChanning as matchmaking widow Dolly Levi in a 2002 production of Hello, Dolly!
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterHer turn as nightclub singer Muzzy Van Hossmere in the 1967 film Thoroughly Modern Millie earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress
Photograph: Ronald Grant
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterQueen of comedy … Channing modelling the Westminster halo tiara before a charity event in 1961
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterRehearsing for her Emmy-winning TV special, An Evening With Carol Channing, in 1965
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChanning starred opposite Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx in the 1968 comedy Skidoo
Photograph: Ronald Grant
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChanning, right, catches up with Liza Minnelli in the latter’s dressing room in 1974
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPacific princess … Channing, centre, dazzled in a two-hour musical edition of US television series The Love Boat in 1982
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterNatalie Gregory and Carol Channing (as the White Queen) star in the 1985 TV film Alice in Wonderland
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChanning hosted The Muppet Show in 1980, duetting with Miss Piggy on Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChanning at Carnegie Hall, New York, during the 1991 charity benefit Give My Regards to Broadway: A Salute to 125 Years of Musical Theater
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAhoy there! Channing makes an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, with guest host John Davidson
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Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThe performer on opening night of her show Razzle Dazzle! at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s theatre in 2004
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