Carol Channing, known mostly for her role as ... Channing described her reaction to learning her father was half-black. …when I found out. I was 16-years-old and my mother told me.

Iconic stage personality Carol Channing ... as ‘colored’ on her birth certificate making her father, George Channing, a Black German-American. Her mother explained to her that she felt ...

This past Wednesday, the night Broadway dimmed its lights in honor of Carol Channing ... she was 16 her mother revealed that her father was part black. She also wrote about her first love ...

her mother told her that her father was born in the south and that his mother was African-American. Channing hadn’t revealed that she was part black until 2002, but eight years later she ...

Pearl Bailey led an all-black cast in a ... She was a teenager before Channing learned, from her mother, that her father was the son of a mixed-race marriage. Carol had an African American ...

Carol Elaine Channing was born in Seattle on Jan ... revealed that when she was 16 her mother told her that her father was part black; she kept her racial heritage a secret, she wrote, for ...

Actress Carol Channing ... has died. She was 97. Channing was the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Christian father and identified as “part Jewish.” At 16, she learned that her father ...

Carol Channing fast facts Years later Channing also found out that her father had been harboring a secret. His mother was listed as "colored" on her birth certificate, though his father was Nordic ...

Legendary Broadway star Carol Channing ... Science religion and her father a popular lecturer for the church. It was her religion that first led her to the theater. Channing and her mother would ...