Carol Channing

Carol Channing has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard. One of the reasons Davis loved the song is that her granddaughter thought her grandmother was "cool" because she had a hit song written about her. 90210 guest star in 1998!!!!. After the song "Bette Davis Eyes" became a hit single, Davis wrote letters to songwriters Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, and singer Kim Carnes to ask them how they knew so much about her. On May 10, 2003, she married Harry Kullijian, her high school sweetheart, who reunited with her after she mentioned him fondly in her memoir. She is also credited with many famous quotes about acting often about Hollywood and rivals like Crawford and Hepburn. He died before the divorce was finalized. She walked out of her last film, "Wicked Stepmother," which was released posthumously with her still included in 1989.

They remained married for 42 years, but she filed for divorce in 1998, alleging they had had marital relations only twice in that timespan, not surprising since Lowe was gay, a fact she may not have realized when they wed. On Davis's tombstone is written, "She did it the hard way.". In 1956 she married her manager and publicist Charles Lowe. Bette Davis died, aged 81, in 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, following a long battle with breast cancer, and after having suffered at least one serious stroke. Her first husband, Theodore Naidish, was a writer; her second, Alexander Carson, was center for the Ottawa Rough Riders Canadian football team (they had one son, Chan, who is a cartoonist). This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation. She married four times. On July 19, 2001, Steven Spielberg purchased Davis' Oscar statuette for Jezebel at a Christie's auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie, opposite Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore. Davis wrote another book, This N That, in the late 1980s, and Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, which appeared the year after her death, updating what had happened since her first biography had been published. She reprised the role of Lorelei Lee in the musical Lorelei, and appeared in two New York revivals of Hello, Dolly!, in addition to touring with it extensively throughout the United States. Hyman (born Barbara Sherry), wrote a tell-all book, My Mother's Keeper, in which she savaged her mother. Davis admitted that her career always came first, and, although she married four times, and had sveral affairs, including ones with George Brent and William Wyler, it should be pointed out that many who knew both her and her daughter claimed that this book was largely fiction and that Davis, although in some ways difficult, was really a loving mother and grandmother. (Channing was probably comforted to know that few who had seen her on stage were impressed by Streisand's bizarre interpretation of the role, an odd combination of Jewish yenta and Mae West.). In 1985, her daughter, B.D. She was deeply disappointed when Streisand, who was far too young for the role, successfully campaigned to play the role of Dolly Levi in the film. She wrote a biography, The Lonely Life, in the 1960s, and Mother Goddam in 1975.

Her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, in a year when her chief competition was Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl. In 1977, Davis became the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy. She truly came to national prominence as the star of Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! She never missed a performance during her run, attributing her good health to her Christian Science faith. Her role in 1962's over-the-top What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time rival Joan Crawford, earned her another Oscar nomination. She had a featured role in a review, Lend an Ear, where she was spotted by Anita Loos and cast in the role of Lorelei Lee, which was to bring her to prominence. (Her signature song from the production was "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.") Carol's persona and that of the character were strikingly alike: simultaneously smart yet scattered, naïve but worldly. When her career began to fade again, in 1961, she placed a notorious ad for "job wanted" in the trade papers. Her first Broadway play was Let's Face It, where she was an understudy for Eve Arden. Her career began to stagnate through the 1940s, but her performance in All About Eve (1950), for which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.

She kept her heritage secret so she would not be typecast on Broadway and in Hollywood, ultimately revealing it only in her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess, which was published in 2002, when she was more than 80 years old. She went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for Dangerous (1936) and Jezebel (1938), and was able to name her own roles, with the exception of Gone With the Wind in 1939. When she left home to attend Bennington College, her mother informed her that her father, a journalist whom she had believed was born in Rhode Island, was actually a light-complected African-American born in Augusta, Georgia who had passed for white, saying that the only reason she was telling her was so she wouldn't be surprised "if she had a black baby". After a much publicised legal battle with Warners, to stop them putting her in inferior movies, led to a dramatic improvement in the quality of her films (although she lost the case). She was born in Seattle, Washington. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this tour de force and such was the outrage that she received many write in votes from disgruntled Academy members, the eventual winner was longtime rival Katharine Hepburn. She is easily recognized by her distinctive voice and wide eyes. Her first starring role was in The Man Who Played God, and she became a star in Of Human Bondage.

Carol Channing (born January 31, 1921) is a United States actress whose career was built largely on two roles, Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello Dolly!. The next year, she was hired by Universal Studios, but they felt she was not star material, and in 1932, they let her sign with Warner Brothers. Sugar Babies (national tour with Mickey Rooney). Her first Broadway performance was in 1929, in Broken Dishes and later in Solid South. Legends! (national tour with Mary Martin). Her first professional stage performance was The Earth Between, Off-Broadway in 1923. Hello, Dolly! (revival)(1995). So, she enrolled in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school (who sent her classmate Lucille Ball home because she was "too shy"), and became a star.

Alice in Wonderland (TV movie) (1985). Davis was denied admission to Eva LeGallienne's Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insincere. Shinbone Alley (animated movie) (1971). Her parents divorced when she was 7, and she and her sister were raised by their mother, who aspired to be an actress. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hello, Dolly! (revival) (1978). Ruth Elizabeth Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), better known as Bette Davis, was an Academy Award winning American actress.

Jule's Friends at the Palace (benefit) (1974). This article is about Bette Davis the actress, the article about Betty Davis the singer can be found here. Lorelei (a reworking of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) (1974). The Bad Sister (1931). Four on a Garden (1971). Seed (1931). Hello, Dolly! (1964). Waterloo Bridge (1931).

Show Girl (1961). Way Back Home (1931). The First Traveling Saleslady ("the film that brought down RKO") (1956). The Menace (1932). The Vamp (a legendary flop) (1955). Hell's House (1932). Wonderful Town (1953). The Man Who Played God (1932).

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949). So Big! (1932). Lend an Ear (1948). The Rich Are Always with Us (1932). Proof Through the Night (1942). The Dark Horse (1932). Let's Face It! (1941). Cabin in the Cotton (1932).

Three on a Match (1932). 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932). Parachute Jumper (1933). The Working Man (1933).

Ex-Lady (1933). Bureau of Missing Persons (1933). The Big Shakedown (1934). Fashions of 1934 (1934).

Jimmy the Gent (1934). Fog Over Frisco (1934). Of Human Bondage (1934). Housewife (1934).

Bordertown (1935). The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935). Front Page Woman (1935). Special Agent (1935).

Dangerous (1935). The Petrified Forest (1936). The Golden Arrow (1936). Satan Met a Lady (1936).

Marked Woman (1937). Kid Galahad (1937). That Certain Woman (1937). It's Love I'm After (1937).

Jezebel (1938). The Sisters (1938). Dark Victory (1939). Juarez (1939).

The Old Maid (1939). The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). All This and Heaven Too (1940). The Letter (1940).

The Great Lie (1941). The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941). The Little Foxes (1941). Shining Victory (1941).

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942). In This Our Life (1942. Now, Voyager (1942). Watch on the Rhine (1943).

Old Acquaintance (1943). Skeffington (1944). Mr. The Corn Is Green (1945).

The Watcher in the Woods (1980). Skyward (1980). Family Reunion (1981). Cimino (1982).

A Piano for Mrs. Little Gloria, Happy at Last (1982). Hotel (1982). Right of Way (1983).

Skeffington (1944). Nominated Mr. Nominated All About Eve (1950). Nominated The Star (1952).