"Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," the feature-film documentary about the life of Tony-winning Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing, is released on DVD by Entertainment One today, May 22nd.
Directed by Dori Berinstein ("Show Business: The Road to Broadway"), the new film features interviews with Channing, her late husband Harry Kullijian, Jerry Herman, Lily Tomlin, Margie Champion, Betty Garrett (who has since died), Chita Rivera, Barbara Walters, Tyne Daly, Debbie Reynolds, Phyllis Diller, Loni Anderson, JoAnne Worley, Bruce Vilanch and many more. Running time is 89 minutes plus extras.
The bonus features on the DVD include "Creating Dolly," Hello, Dolly! opening-night crew stories, "Barbara Walters on Carol" and Joan Crawford's wedding, among others.
From Playbill: "The story of legendary performer Carol Channing's life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile," according to production notes. In the film director Berinstein, with co-writer Adam Zucker, capture the "magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon — both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend."
Plus - I'm featured in the film working with Carol and I get to share a story about how caring Carol was with the cast of "Hello, Dolly!"
Check out the DVD today on Amazon.
She is way too Republican for me.. I cannot support any women who would vote against my best interests....
ReplyDeleteCarol is hardly Republican :)
ReplyDeleteShe campaigned for LBJ in the 60s, she's for LGBT rights, she's fighting to keep arts education in public schools and she's raised countless funds for HIV/AIDS programs.
Believe me - I know her very well. Carol is no Republican.
That makes me feel better but I could swear I heard her say she was on a tv program not too long ago.. I take your word since you do actually know her..
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