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 The entertainment world has enjoyed a six-decade love affair with comedienne/singer Carol Burnett. A peerless sketch performer and delightful, self-effacing personality who rightfully succeeded Lucille Ball as the carrot-topped "Queen of Television Comedy," it was Burnett's traumatic childhood that set the stage for her comedy.Carol's rags-to-riches story started out in San Antonio, Texas, on April 26, 1933, where she was born to Ina Louise (Creighton) and Joseph Thomas "Jodie" Burnett, both of whom suffered from acute alcoholism. As a child, she was left in the care of a beloved grandmother, who shuttled the two of them off to Hollywood, California, where they lived in a boarding house and shared a great passion for the Golden Age of movies. The plaintive, loose-limbed, highly sensitive Carol survived her wallflower insecurities by grabbing attention as a cut-up at Hollywood High School. A natural talent, she attended the University of California and switched majors from journalism to theater. Scouting out comedy parts on TV and in the theater, she first had them rolling in the aisles in the mid-1950s performing a lovelorn novelty song called "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" (then Secretary of State) in a nightclub act. This led to night-time variety show appearances with Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan and where the career ball really started rolling.Carol's first big TV breaks came at age 22 and 23 as a foil to a ventriloquist's dummy on the already-established The Paul Winchell Show (1950) in 1955, and as Buddy Hackett's gawky girlfriend on the short-lived sitcom Stanley (1956). She also developed an affinity for game shows and appeared as a regular on one of TV earliest, Stump the Stars (1947) in 1958. While TV would bring Carol fans by the millions, it was Broadway that set her on the road to stardom. She began as the woebegone Princess Winnifred in the 1959 Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress" which earned her first Tony Award nomination. [She would later appear in three TV adaptations - Once Upon a Mattress (1964), Once Upon a Mattress (1972) and Once Upon a Mattress (2005).] This, in turn, led to the first of an armful of Emmy Awards as a repertoire player on the popular variety series The Garry Moore Show (1958) in 1959. Burnett invented a number of scene-stealing characters during this time, most notably her charwoman character. With the phenomenal household success of the Moore show, she moved up quickly from second banana to headliner and appeared in a 1962 Emmy-winning special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962) co-starring close friend Julie Andrews. She earned the Outer Critics Circle Award for the short-lived musical "Fade Out, Fade In" (1964); and made her official film debut opposite Bewitched (1964) star Elizabeth Montgomery and Dean Martin in the lightweight comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963).Not surprisingly, fellow redhead Lucille Ball, who had been Carol's treasured idol growing up, subsequently became a friend and mentor to the rising funny girl. Hilarious as a guest star on The Lucy Show (1962), Carol appeared as a painfully shy (natch) wallflower type who suddenly blooms in jaw-dropping fashion. Ms. Ball was so convinced of Carol's talent that she offered Carol her own Desilu-produced sitcom, but Burnett had her heart set on fronting a variety show. With her own team of second bananas, including character crony Harvey Korman, handsome foil Lyle Waggoner, and lookalike "kid sister" type Vicki Lawrence, the The Carol Burnett Show (1967) became an instant sensation, and earned 22 Emmy Awards during its 11-year run. It allowed Carol to fire off her wide range of comedy and musical ammunition--whether running amok in broad sketch comedy, parodying movie icons such as Gloria Swanson, Shirley Temple, Vivien Leigh or Joan Crawford, or singing/gushing alongside favorite vocalists Jim Nabors, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torm��. She managed to bring in huge stars not known at all for slapstick comedy, including Rock Hudson and even then-Governor Ronald Reagan while providing a platform for such up-and-coming talent as Bernadette Peters and The Pointer Sisters In between, Carol branched out with supporting turns in the films Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974) and Robert Altman's A Wedding (1978).Her program, whose last episode aired in March of 1978, was the last truly successful major network variety show to date. Carol took on new challenges to display her unseen dramatic mettle, and accomplished this amazingly in TV-movie showcases. She earned an Emmy nomination for her gripping portrayal of anti-Vietnam War activist Peg Mullen in Friendly Fire (1979), and convincingly played a woman coming to terms with her alcoholism in Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982). Neither character bore any traces of the usual Burnett comedy shtick. Though she proved she could contain herself for films, Carol was never able to acquire crossover success into movies, despite trouper work in The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982) (as the hammy villainess Miss Hannigan), and Noises Off... (1992). The last two roles had been created onstage by Broadway's Dorothy Loudon.Carol would return from time to time to the stage and concert forums with productions of "Plaza Suite", "I Do! I Do", "Follies", "Company" and "Putting It Together". A second Tony nomination came for her comedy work in "Moon Over Buffalo" in 1995. Carol has made frequent appearances on her own favorite TV shows too, such as Password (1961) (along with Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol was considered one of the show's best players) and the daytime soaper, All My Children (1970).During the early 1990s, Carol attempted a TV comeback of sorts, with a couple of new variety formats in Carol & Company (1990) and The Carol Burnett Show (1991), but neither could recreate the magic of the original. She has appeared, sporadically, on various established shows such as "Magnum, P.I.," "Touched by an Angel," "Mad About You" (for which she won an Emmy), "Desperate Housewives," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Emmy nomination), "Hawaii Five-0," "Glee" and "Hot in Cleveland." Befitting such a classy clown, she has received a multitude of awards over time, including the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1985. Her personal life has been valiant--tears in between the laughs. Married three times, her second union with jazz-musician-turned-variety-show-producer Joe Hamilton produced three daughters. Eldest girl, Carrie Hamilton, an actress and former teen substance abuser, tragically died of lung and brain cancer at age 38. Shortly before Carrie's death, mother and daughter managed to write a play, together, entitled "Hollywood Arms", based on Carol's 1986 memoir, "One More Time". The show subsequently made it to Broadway.Today, at age 80 plus, Carol has been seen less frequently but still continues to make appearances, especially on TV. Most recently she has guested on the shows "Glee," "Hot in Cleveland" and the revivals of "Hawaii Five-0" and "Mad About You." As always she signs off a live appearance with her signature ear tug (acknowledging her late grandmother), reminding us all, between the wisecracks and the songs, how glad and lucky we all are to still have some of "this time together".
Bio:
The entertainment world has enjoyed a six-decade love affair with comedienne/singer Carol Burnett. A peerless sketch performer and delightful, self-effacing personality who rightfully succeeded Lucille Ball as the carrot-topped "Queen of Television Comedy," it was Burnett's traumatic childhood that set the stage for her comedy.Carol's rags-to-riches story started out in San Antonio, Texas, on April 26, 1933, where she was born to Ina Louise (Creighton) and Joseph Thomas "Jodie" Burnett, both of whom suffered from acute alcoholism. As a child, she was left in the care of a beloved grandmother, who shuttled the two of them off to Hollywood, California, where they lived in a boarding house and shared a great passion for the Golden Age of movies. The plaintive, loose-limbed, highly sensitive Carol survived her wallflower insecurities by grabbing attention as a cut-up at Hollywood High School. A natural talent, she attended the University of California and switched majors from journalism to theater. Scouting out comedy parts on TV and in the theater, she first had them rolling in the aisles in the mid-1950s performing a lovelorn novelty song called "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" (then Secretary of State) in a nightclub act. This led to night-time variety show appearances with Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan and where the career ball really started rolling.Carol's first big TV breaks came at age 22 and 23 as a foil to a ventriloquist's dummy on the already-established The Paul Winchell Show (1950) in 1955, and as Buddy Hackett's gawky girlfriend on the short-lived sitcom Stanley (1956). She also developed an affinity for game shows and appeared as a regular on one of TV earliest, Stump the Stars (1947) in 1958. While TV would bring Carol fans by the millions, it was Broadway that set her on the road to stardom. She began as the woebegone Princess Winnifred in the 1959 Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress" which earned her first Tony Award nomination. [She would later appear in three TV adaptations - Once Upon a Mattress (1964), Once Upon a Mattress (1972) and Once Upon a Mattress (2005).] This, in turn, led to the first of an armful of Emmy Awards as a repertoire player on the popular variety series The Garry Moore Show (1958) in 1959. Burnett invented a number of scene-stealing characters during this time, most notably her charwoman character. With the phenomenal household success of the Moore show, she moved up quickly from second banana to headliner and appeared in a 1962 Emmy-winning special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962) co-starring close friend Julie Andrews. She earned the Outer Critics Circle Award for the short-lived musical "Fade Out, Fade In" (1964); and made her official film debut opposite Bewitched (1964) star Elizabeth Montgomery and Dean Martin in the lightweight comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963).Not surprisingly, fellow redhead Lucille Ball, who had been Carol's treasured idol growing up, subsequently became a friend and mentor to the rising funny girl. Hilarious as a guest star on The Lucy Show (1962), Carol appeared as a painfully shy (natch) wallflower type who suddenly blooms in jaw-dropping fashion. Ms. Ball was so convinced of Carol's talent that she offered Carol her own Desilu-produced sitcom, but Burnett had her heart set on fronting a variety show. With her own team of second bananas, including character crony Harvey Korman, handsome foil Lyle Waggoner, and lookalike "kid sister" type Vicki Lawrence, the The Carol Burnett Show (1967) became an instant sensation, and earned 22 Emmy Awards during its 11-year run. It allowed Carol to fire off her wide range of comedy and musical ammunition--whether running amok in broad sketch comedy, parodying movie icons such as Gloria Swanson, Shirley Temple, Vivien Leigh or Joan Crawford, or singing/gushing alongside favorite vocalists Jim Nabors, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torm��. She managed to bring in huge stars not known at all for slapstick comedy, including Rock Hudson and even then-Governor Ronald Reagan while providing a platform for such up-and-coming talent as Bernadette Peters and The Pointer Sisters In between, Carol branched out with supporting turns in the films Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974) and Robert Altman's A Wedding (1978).Her program, whose last episode aired in March of 1978, was the last truly successful major network variety show to date. Carol took on new challenges to display her unseen dramatic mettle, and accomplished this amazingly in TV-movie showcases. She earned an Emmy nomination for her gripping portrayal of anti-Vietnam War activist Peg Mullen in Friendly Fire (1979), and convincingly played a woman coming to terms with her alcoholism in Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982). Neither character bore any traces of the usual Burnett comedy shtick. Though she proved she could contain herself for films, Carol was never able to acquire crossover success into movies, despite trouper work in The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982) (as the hammy villainess Miss Hannigan), and Noises Off... (1992). The last two roles had been created onstage by Broadway's Dorothy Loudon.Carol would return from time to time to the stage and concert forums with productions of "Plaza Suite", "I Do! I Do", "Follies", "Company" and "Putting It Together". A second Tony nomination came for her comedy work in "Moon Over Buffalo" in 1995. Carol has made frequent appearances on her own favorite TV shows too, such as Password (1961) (along with Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol was considered one of the show's best players) and the daytime soaper, All My Children (1970).During the early 1990s, Carol attempted a TV comeback of sorts, with a couple of new variety formats in Carol & Company (1990) and The Carol Burnett Show (1991), but neither could recreate the magic of the original. She has appeared, sporadically, on various established shows such as "Magnum, P.I.," "Touched by an Angel," "Mad About You" (for which she won an Emmy), "Desperate Housewives," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Emmy nomination), "Hawaii Five-0," "Glee" and "Hot in Cleveland." Befitting such a classy clown, she has received a multitude of awards over time, including the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1985. Her personal life has been valiant--tears in between the laughs. Married three times, her second union with jazz-musician-turned-variety-show-producer Joe Hamilton produced three daughters. Eldest girl, Carrie Hamilton, an actress and former teen substance abuser, tragically died of lung and brain cancer at age 38. Shortly before Carrie's death, mother and daughter managed to write a play, together, entitled "Hollywood Arms", based on Carol's 1986 memoir, "One More Time". The show subsequently made it to Broadway.Today, at age 80 plus, Carol has been seen less frequently but still continues to make appearances, especially on TV. Most recently she has guested on the shows "Glee," "Hot in Cleveland" and the revivals of "Hawaii Five-0" and "Mad About You." As always she signs off a live appearance with her signature ear tug (acknowledging her late grandmother), reminding us all, between the wisecracks and the songs, how glad and lucky we all are to still have some of "this time together".
Tivia:
On the morning of her 56th birthday, her good friend Lucille Ball died - April 26, 1989. That afternoon, Burnett received the flowers that Ball had ordered for her birthday.Both her parents were alcoholics and after their marriage ended. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mabel Eudora White.Helped actress and singer Bernadette Peters get her first break.Lucille Ball gave Carol her first baby shower.In 1981, she successfully sued the "National Enquirer" for libel, prompted by its article describing her alleged public drunkenness during an altercation with then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while in a Washington restaurant, in 1976. The case remains a landmark in the study of libel cases involving celebrities, even though the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict (including $300,000 in personal damages and $1.3 million in "punitive" damages) was later reduced on appeal and the case was eventually settled out of court. Burnett donated the money to charity. She said she pursued the lawsuit because, as the daughter of two deceased alcoholics, the gossip paper's fabrication wounded her emotionally and that they should be punished for their irresponsibility when writing lies about celebrities.When she was age 12, she used to fool a boy by saying she was a twin and she would sneak out of the window pretending to be both twins, this went on for two days.Was forced to drop out of the 1964 Broadway musical "Fade Out, Fade In" after sustaining a neck injury in a taxi accident. The show's producers sued her for breach of contract, but the suit was later dropped.Her daughter Carrie Hamilton had a drug problem for three years when she was a teen, Carol put her through rehab and Carrie successfully overcame her addiction and began a career in the entertainment business like her mother.She was the first woman to have own variety television show.Known to have taken comedian Vicki Lawrence under her wing when she was 17 years old, their friendship has lasted for over 50 years so far.Best friends with Beverly Sills, Dame Julie Andrews and Vicki Lawrence.Lost her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, on January 20, 2002 to lung and brain cancer.Once worked as an usherette at the Warner (now Pacific) Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. One night, the movie playing was Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), a film Carol had seen and loved. She advised a late arriving couple to wait until the next show, because the film was so good, it should be seen from beginning to end. The manager overheard her, rudely fired her on the spot, and humiliated her by ripping the epaulets off her usherette uniform. Decades later, when she was to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she was asked by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce where she would like it placed. Carol asked that her star be placed in front of the Pacific Theater. In her memoir "One More Time", she states the name of the manager who so rudely fired her, followed by an epithet that won't be repeated here.Mama from the famous The Family sketches of her show and Mama's Family was originally written for Carol, but Carol felt more of connection towards Eunice and passed Mama to her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence the role would become Vicki's most iconic character.She lived in Hawaii for a short while. She lived across the street from her good friend and protegee Vicki Lawrence who was also living Hawaii at the time. Vicki was the first to move back to California, Carol followed shortly after because of getting homesick. Actor Jim Nabors was also a neighbor.Considered Jim Nabors to be her good luck charm. He appeared as a guest on the first episode of The Carol Burnett Show (1967), and when the show took off, she had him back on the first episode of every season.At age 10, comedian Jim Carrey sent her his resume.Was good friends with Lucille Ball, with whom she appeared several times on The Lucy Show (1962) and Here's Lucy (1968).Bob Mackie is her favorite designer. He designed all of the costumes for The Carol Burnett Show (1967).When Carol and one cousin were children they played Tarzan and Jane, Carol would play Tarzan since she can do the Tarzan yell.Childhood friends with Alan Alda.Is a huge gamer, she was known to have gone on a great deal of game shows like Password and was known to throw games at her house parties like mysteries game and others with friends like Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Betty White.Carol's favorite character she did was Eunice Higgins from 'The Family' sketches of The Carol Burnett Show. Interestingly, Vicki Lawrence who played her Mama was 16 years younger than Carol.Discovered her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence when Vicki was age 17 and became an acting mentor to her. Vicki was discovered when she wrote Carol a fan letter and Carol went to see her contest and told her she will get back to her and they will discuss her career, Vicki was later cast in The Carol Burnett Show (1967). The story how they met has become known as show business legend. Carol has always felt that it was fate that lead to her discovering Vicki.In the 2012 reunion of The Carol Burnett Show (1967), her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence successfully copied her famous Tarzan yell.Vicki Lawrence's children call her Aunt Carol.She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 21, 1975.Is an avid animal lover and owns many pets, especially dogs.Godmother of Emma Walton Hamilton, daughter of best friend Dame Julie Andrews.Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on 9 November 2005. Other recipients were Frank Robinson, Muhammad Ali, General Richard Myers, Paul Rusesabagina, Andy Griffith, Aretha Franklin, Vint Cerf and his Internet co-developer Robert Kahn, Jack Nicklaus, Alan Greenspan, and former congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery.She and Vicki Lawrence often get mistaken for sisters because of their close resemblance.Most familiar to children as the show-stealing Miss Hannigan in Annie (1982).When asked, on her show, who her favorite actor was, she replied, "Anthony Hopkins - you know, the little English guy?" [Hopkins is Welsh].Her acting mentors were Garry Moore and Lucille Ball.Has said in case she could go back and learn something, she would learn to read music and taken dance classes.Is a huge fan of Jane Lynch, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.Named recipient of the 2013 "Mark Twain Prize for American Humor" by the Kennedy Center [May 21, 2013].Comedian Vicki Lawrence is her protegee and partner and they share a very close relationship.Attended and graduated from Hollywood High School in Hollywood, California (1951).Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 10, 2016 in Austin, Texas.Went on her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence's own television show, at least five times more than any other celebrity.Is a huge fan of the television shows Modern Family (2009), Breaking Bad (2008) and House of Cards (2013).She has made guest appearance on The Twilight Zone (1959), Get Smart (1965), Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964), Mama's Family (1983), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Mad About You (1992), Desperate Housewives (2004), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). As well as the soap opera All My Children (1970).Gave best friend and prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence a trip to Hawaii as a wedding gift, when Vicki married makeup artist Al Schultz in 1974.Mother, with ex-husband Joe Hamilton, of actress Carrie Hamilton (born 1963, died 2002), daughter Jody Hamilton (born 1967), and singer Erin Hamilton (born 1968).One of five recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.In a All-Star Party for Carol Burnett (1982), her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence copied her breakout song "I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles" that Carol did on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957) in 1957.During the first couple seasons of The Carol Burnett Show (1967) her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence admitted that she idolize and looked up to Carol so much, even stating that she had Carol on a Pedestal that she could barely say two words to her at first. She still admires her.In 2007, she sued 20th Century Fox for copyright infringement, trademark violation, invasion of privacy, and misappropriation of name and likeness over the use of an altered version of her signature closing song and the portrayal of her cleaning lady "charwoman" character in an episode of Family Guy (1999). The lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge. The judge used Hustler Magazine v. Falwell as the general basis for the decision, ruling that the cartoon was a permissible parody of a public figure.Daughter Erin Hamilton was Miss Golden Globe 1993. |
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The entertainment world has enjoyed a six-decade love affair with comedienne/singer Carol Burnett. A peerless sketch performer and delightful, self-effacing personality who rightfully succeeded Lucille Ball as the carrot-topped \"Queen of Television |
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On the morning of her 56th birthday, her good friend Lucille Ball died - April 26, 1989. That afternoon, Burnett received the flowers that Ball had ordered for her birthday.Both her parents were alcoholics and after their marriage ended. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mabel Eudora White.Helped actress and singer Bernadette Peters get her first break.Lucille Ball gave Carol her first baby shower.In 1981, she successfully sued the "National Enquirer" for libel, prompted by its article describing her alleged public drunkenness during an altercation with then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while in a Washington restaurant, in 1976. The case remains a landmark in the study of libel cases involving celebrities, even though the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict (including $300,000 in personal damages and $1.3 million in "punitive" damages) was later reduced on appeal and the case was eventually settled out of court. Burnett donated the money to charity. She said she pursued the lawsuit because, as the daughter of two deceased alcoholics, the gossip paper's fabrication wounded her emotionally and that they should be punished for their irresponsibility when writing lies about celebrities.When she was age 12, she used to fool a boy by saying she was a twin and she would sneak out of the window pretending to be both twins, this went on for two days.Was forced to drop out of the 1964 Broadway musical "Fade Out, Fade In" after sustaining a neck injury in a taxi accident. The show's producers sued her for breach of contract, but the suit was later dropped.Her daughter Carrie Hamilton had a drug problem for three years when she was a teen, Carol put her through rehab and Carrie successfully overcame her addiction and began a career in the entertainment business like her mother.She was the first woman to have own variety television show.Known to have taken comedian Vicki Lawrence under her wing when she was 17 years old, their friendship has lasted for over 50 years so far.Best friends with Beverly Sills, Dame Julie Andrews and Vicki Lawrence.Lost her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, on January 20, 2002 to lung and brain cancer.Once worked as an usherette at the Warner (now Pacific) Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. One night, the movie playing was Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), a film Carol had seen and loved. She advised a late arriving couple to wait until the next show, because the film was so good, it should be seen from beginning to end. The manager overheard her, rudely fired her on the spot, and humiliated her by ripping the epaulets off her usherette uniform. Decades later, when she was to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she was asked by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce where she would like it placed. Carol asked that her star be placed in front of the Pacific Theater. In her memoir "One More Time", she states the name of the manager who so rudely fired her, followed by an epithet that won't be repeated here.Mama from the famous The Family sketches of her show and Mama's Family was originally written for Carol, but Carol felt more of connection towards Eunice and passed Mama to her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence the role would become Vicki's most iconic character.She lived in Hawaii for a short while. She lived across the street from her good friend and protegee Vicki Lawrence who was also living Hawaii at the time. Vicki was the first to move back to California, Carol followed shortly after because of getting homesick. Actor Jim Nabors was also a neighbor.Considered Jim Nabors to be her good luck charm. He appeared as a guest on the first episode of The Carol Burnett Show (1967), and when the show took off, she had him back on the first episode of every season.At age 10, comedian Jim Carrey sent her his resume.Was good friends with Lucille Ball, with whom she appeared several times on The Lucy Show (1962) and Here's Lucy (1968).Bob Mackie is her favorite designer. He designed all of the costumes for The Carol Burnett Show (1967).When Carol and one cousin were children they played Tarzan and Jane, Carol would play Tarzan since she can do the Tarzan yell.Childhood friends with Alan Alda.Is a huge gamer, she was known to have gone on a great deal of game shows like Password and was known to throw games at her house parties like mysteries game and others with friends like Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Betty White.Carol's favorite character she did was Eunice Higgins from 'The Family' sketches of The Carol Burnett Show. Interestingly, Vicki Lawrence who played her Mama was 16 years younger than Carol.Discovered her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence when Vicki was age 17 and became an acting mentor to her. Vicki was discovered when she wrote Carol a fan letter and Carol went to see her contest and told her she will get back to her and they will discuss her career, Vicki was later cast in The Carol Burnett Show (1967). The story how they met has become known as show business legend. Carol has always felt that it was fate that lead to her discovering Vicki.In the 2012 reunion of The Carol Burnett Show (1967), her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence successfully copied her famous Tarzan yell.Vicki Lawrence's children call her Aunt Carol.She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 21, 1975.Is an avid animal lover and owns many pets, especially dogs.Godmother of Emma Walton Hamilton, daughter of best friend Dame Julie Andrews.Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on 9 November 2005. Other recipients were Frank Robinson, Muhammad Ali, General Richard Myers, Paul Rusesabagina, Andy Griffith, Aretha Franklin, Vint Cerf and his Internet co-developer Robert Kahn, Jack Nicklaus, Alan Greenspan, and former congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery.She and Vicki Lawrence often get mistaken for sisters because of their close resemblance.Most familiar to children as the show-stealing Miss Hannigan in Annie (1982).When asked, on her show, who her favorite actor was, she replied, "Anthony Hopkins - you know, the little English guy?" [Hopkins is Welsh].Her acting mentors were Garry Moore and Lucille Ball.Has said in case she could go back and learn something, she would learn to read music and taken dance classes.Is a huge fan of Jane Lynch, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.Named recipient of the 2013 "Mark Twain Prize for American Humor" by the Kennedy Center [May 21, 2013].Comedian Vicki Lawrence is her protegee and partner and they share a very close relationship.Attended and graduated from Hollywood High School in Hollywood, California (1951).Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 10, 2016 in Austin, Texas.Went on her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence's own television show, at least five times more than any other celebrity.Is a huge fan of the television shows Modern Family (2009), Breaking Bad (2008) and House of Cards (2013).She has made guest appearance on The Twilight Zone (1959), Get Smart (1965), Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964), Mama's Family (1983), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Mad About You (1992), Desperate Housewives (2004), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). As well as the soap opera All My Children (1970).Gave best friend and prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence a trip to Hawaii as a wedding gift, when Vicki married makeup artist Al Schultz in 1974.Mother, with ex-husband Joe Hamilton, of actress Carrie Hamilton (born 1963, died 2002), daughter Jody Hamilton (born 1967), and singer Erin Hamilton (born 1968).One of five recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.In a All-Star Party for Carol Burnett (1982), her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence copied her breakout song "I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles" that Carol did on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957) in 1957.During the first couple seasons of The Carol Burnett Show (1967) her prot��g��e Vicki Lawrence admitted that she idolize and looked up to Carol so much, even stating that she had Carol on a Pedestal that she could barely say two words to her at first. She still admires her.In 2007, she sued 20th Century Fox for copyright infringement, trademark violation, invasion of privacy, and misappropriation of name and likeness over the use of an altered version of her signature closing song and the portrayal of her cleaning lady "charwoman" character in an episode of Family Guy (1999). The lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge. The judge used Hustler Magazine v. Falwell as the general basis for the decision, ruling that the cartoon was a permissible parody of a public figure.Daughter Erin Hamilton was Miss Golden Globe 1993. |
| Trademarks: |
Tugs on her left ear during all on-camera appearances as a way of saying "Hello" to her grandmother. It was her grandmother who raised her and took her to the movies all the time.
On The Carol Burnett Show (1967), her favorite on stage Tarzan yell
Red hair and hazel eyes
Her very big strident voice |
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[about her youth] Sometimes a guy would ask me to jitterbug, but nine times out of ten, they were not only a foot shorter than I was, but geeks to boot.
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Comedy is tragedy -- plus time.
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Having seen Harvey Korman as Danny Kaye's second banana - this was like Carl Reiner to Sid Caesar and Art Carney to Jackie Gleason - I said, "We've got to get somebody like him." And when Danny's show went off the air, we said: "Duh. Why don't we get him?" When I do the Qu0026amp;As, I talk about Harvey and pay tribute to him. He approached everything from an acting standpoint, and having the comedy chops to go with it, that's a jewel. When you play tennis, it's important to play with a better player because it makes your game better. Well, Harvey made my game better. I miss him dreadfully. And Tim Conway, God bless him, is just a genius when it comes to improvising, coming up with stuff that we never rehearsed.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. We had a great staff of writers, and if we had a sketch we were rehearsing and it wasn't working, we'd call the writers down and show them what we had come up with. And there were no egos. In 11 years, we never had a writer get angry because we made it a little bit more of our own and maybe a little improved. They would jump in and say, "Oh okay, how about this then, while you're doing that?" We were all in the sandbox together.
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstance. |
| Salaries: |
The United States Steel Hour (1953) - $5,000 for one show
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The Paul Winchell Show (1950) - $115 /week |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Others works: |
(1959) Stage: Appeared (as "Princess Winnifred, Princess of Farfelot"; Broadway debut) in "Once Upon a Mattress" on Broadway. Musical comedy. Book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller. Music by Mary Rodgers. Lyrics by Marshall |
| Spouse: |
Brian Miller (November 24, 2001 - present) Joe Hamilton (May 4, 1963 - May 11, 1984) (divorced, 3 children)Don Saroyan (December 15, 1955 - September 25, 1962) (divorced) |
| Children: |
Carrie HamiltonErin HamiltonJody Hamilton |
| Relatives: |
Chrissie Burnett (Sibling) |
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