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Carol Burnett - Biography - IMDb. The entertainment world has enjoyed a five- 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. The Bachelor Season 21 Episode 7 Watch more. Carol's rags- to- riches story started out in San Antonio, Texas, on April 2.

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Jodie and Louise 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- 1.

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 2. The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show (1.

Buddy Hackett's gawky girlfriend on the short- lived sitcom Stanley (1. She also developed an affinity for game shows and appeared as a regular on one of TV earliest, Pantomime Quiz (1. 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 1. 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 (1. Once Upon a Mattress (1. The Wonderful World of Disney: Once Upon a Mattress (2.

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 (1. 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 1. Emmy- winning special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1. Julie Andrews. She earned the Outer Critics Circle Award for the short- lived musical "Fade Out, Fade In" (1.

Bewitched (1. 96. Elizabeth Montgomery and Dean Martin in the lightweight comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? 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 (1. 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 (1.

Emmy Awards during its 1. 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 Tormé. 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 (1. The Front Page (1. Robert Altman's A Wedding (1. Her program, whose last episode aired in March of 1. 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 (1. Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1. 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 (1. Annie (1. 98. 2) (as the hammy villainess Miss Hannigan), and Noises Off.. 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 1. Watch Dirty Grandpa Download Full more.

Carol has made frequent appearances on her own favorite TV shows too, such as Password (1. Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol was considered one of the show's best players) and the daytime soaper, All My Children (1. During the early 1. Carol attempted a TV comeback of sorts, with a couple of new variety formats in Carol & Company (1. The Carol Burnett Show (1.

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 2. Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1. 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 3.

Shortly before Carrie's death, mother and daughter managed to write a play, together, entitled "Hollywood Arms", based on Carol's 1. Watch Christmas In Wonderland 4Shared. One More Time". The show subsequently made it to Broadway. Today, at age 8. 0 plus, Carol has been seen less frequently but still continues to make appearances, especially on TV. Most recently she has guested on the shows "Hot in Cleveland" and the new "Hawaii Five- 0". 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".- IMDb Mini Biography By.

Gary Brumburgh / gr- home@pacbell. 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. Attended but did not complete her degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1. In 1. 98. 1, 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.

The case remains a landmark in the study of libel cases involving celebrities, even though the unprecedented $1. 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. Considered Jim Nabors to be her good luck charm. He appeared as a guest on the first episode of The Carol Burnett Show (1. Lost her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, on January 2.