Carol Channing: Related Content

Celebrating the life of artistic trailblazer and electric stage personality Carol Channing '42.

Carol Channing ’42 is being celebrated by the New York City Center on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of her stage debut. In this podcast, she describes auditioning for her first role, a comic chanteuse in a political play, while still a sophomore at Bennington College.

A new documentary on legendary actress Carol Channing ’42 was dubbed a “Critic’s Pick” this month by The New York Times. The film, Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, follows the actress from childhood through her 91st year—a span, the documentary affirms, in which she’s hardly lost a step.