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Carol Burnett Bio
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Carol BurnettAs an icon and a legendary female comedian even today, Carol Burnett achieved most of her fame and fortune as a result of her eleven-year stint on The Carol Burnett Show, her successful variety television series, which ran from 1967 to 1978.
Carol Burnett was born on April 26, 1933, in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Jodie and Louise Burnett. However, she was mostly raised by her grandmother and in a boarding house due to the alcoholism suffered by her parents.
After high school, Carol attended LA’s University of California briefly before landing small and minor roles on television, as well as on the stage. However, Burnett went unnoticed until she performed the comical love song “I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles,” Foster Dulles being the Secretary of State in the mid-1950s. Carol also appeared on the very short-lived sitcom, Stanley, alongside Buddy Hackett, Jane Connell, Paul Lynde, and others’ the show it only lasted from 1956 to 1957.
However, her first real success came in 1959 in the Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress. Based on the story of “The Princess and the Pea,” the story and play have been turned into television movies many times, for the first time in 1964.
Carol also became a regular on The Garry Moore Show from 1958 until 1962, hosted by popular game show, talk show, and variety show host Garry Moore. In 1962, Burnett even won an Emmy for her work on the show and appeared opposite actress, singer and friend Julie Andrews in the special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall.
Carol was also friends with comedy legend Lucille Ball and considered Ball her mentor. As a result, Burnett guest starred in Lucille’s The Lucy Show numerous times in 1966 and 1967.
But Carol is perhaps most famous and renowned for hosting her own variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, which debuted in 1967 and included the ensemble cast Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, and Vicki Lawrence. The show lasted eleven years and is considered by many to be the most successful variety show to date.
After her show ended, Burnett went on to star and appear in various roles in television and film movies such as Friendly Fire (1979), with Ned Beatty and Sam Waterston; The Four Seasons (1981), opposite Alan Alda; Annie (1982), the Broadway musical co-starring Albert Finney, Grace Farrell, Tim Curry, and Aileen Quinn as Annie; Hostage (1988), in which her daughter Carrie Hamilton appeared; and Noises Off (1992).
Burnett also played recurring guest roles on various television series and sitcoms, most notably Magnum, P.I., Touched By an Angel and Mad About You, playing Helen Hunt’s character’s mother. More recently, Carol appeared on Desperate Housewives as Marcia Cross’ character’s stepmother, Eleanor.
Carol has been married three times—first to Don Saroyan (1955 to 1962); and next to television producer Joe Hamilton, with whom she had three daughters (1963 to 1984). Since 2001 she has been married to Brian Miller, who is a much younger man.
Burnett is also well-known as a result of her lawsuit against the National Enquirer in 1981, for describing her engaged in public drunkenness with Henry Kissinger, and for losing her thirty-eight –year old daughter Carrie, an actress and writer, who had also struggled with drugs, to lung cancer. YUDDY |
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Carol Burnett - appeared in 'The Four Seasons' with Bess Armstrong
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Carol Burnett - Close friends with Rock Hudson .
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Carol Burnett - Joan Rivers appeared on 'The Carol Burnett Show.'
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