More big than life, the musical stage face Carol Channing, who immortalized the characters Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen love blondes" and Dolly Gallagher Levi in " hi, Dolly!” lost. She was 97.

Channing died Tuesday from natural causes in her own home in Rancho Marevo, California.

Her publicist, B. Harlan Boll has approved this news. He wrote: "I am obliged with the deepest bothered pain to announce about death of the pioneer of the industry, a legend and an icon — Miss Carol Channing. Farewell is one of the most difficult things I have ever done, but I take into account that when I feel these uncontrollable urges to laugh at everything and/or nothing at all, it will become due to the fact that she is with me, tickling my funny bone.”

Channing won Tony as the Best actress in a musical in 1964 for Jerry Herman Thornton Wilder's musical version of the matchmaker. Before that, she was tightly tied to the gold-digging Miss Lee in the music of habituation on the novel by Anita Loos, 1948.

Channing missed the chance to sing his own signature song "Diamonds - the best friend of the girl" in the film version of "Gentlemen"; this honor went to Marilyn Monroe. And but she eclipsed Barbra Streisand in Tony in 1964 (Streisand was nominated for “funny girl”), she was skipped for the movie “hi Dolly” in favor of much more young Streisand.

During his own career, Channing took a number of films. But just one of them, the musical "is entirely progressive Millie" with Julie Andrews, Channing brought a nomination for an Oscar for best actress 2 intentions and Yellow globe.

At the age of 72, Channing returned to Broadway as Dolly levy. The hoarse voice of the performer still continued to delight visitors on the great white road and across the country.

Carol Elaine Channing appeared in Seattle and grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of the popular Christian science teacher George Channing. In her own autobiography of 2002 " Just Lucky, I Guess: a Memoir of sort” she told, in fact, that its founder was a light-skinned African-American, who took advantage of 2 different accents: once, in order to help “pass” in the snow-white world, and another circle of home, where he sang gospel to his own daughter.

Channing studied dance and drama at Bennington, but threw study, in order to arise in the movie the Mark of Blitzstein “no for an answer”, which appeared in the temple, the center of gravity (later in the center of new York) in 1941. It lasted only 3 days, but this was quite in order to produce emotion.

Channing came up with a satirical nightclub action and was spotted in the metropolis at Cafe Society Uptown and Downtown and at Catskills mountain resorts. By 1946, she returned home to San Francisco, where the founder gave her another chance to achieve a furore.

On this one she moved to Los Angeles, where she auditioned for Marge and Gower's favorite Revue “borrow an ear”, which labored in a 5-month direction on the West coast until landing in 1948 at The state theatre, where he continued in the direction of the year. But she was up close in the direction of several years, she at one point became a “brilliant fresh Comedy actress”, according to the magazine Cue.

When Herman Levin and Oliver Smith cooked "Gentlemen love blondes," the phenomenal fresh comedian was their first and only election for Lorelei Lee. on Dec. 8, 1949, Channing made his debut in admiring articles, making comparisons with Beatrice Lilly and Fanny Brice. She spent 2 years on Broadway with the show and again on tour.

In 1953, she replaced Rosalind Russell in “the wonderful metropolis "and toured for 2 years with a musical version of"my sister Eileen"."Another 1 musical attempt," The Vamp", based on the life of Ted Bar, closed subsequently 60 concerts in 1955, but she won the nomination Tony for best actress in the musical for her efforts.

Channing made her debut at the cinema in " Paid in Full” in 1950, and after that was seen with ginger Rogers in 1956, “the First Traveling Saleslady”, which she once speared, was obliged to be called “the death of the saleswoman.”

In another one she turned to Nightclubs, the invention of the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas and a visit to the leading fear for the next 3 years.

Some of the nightclub material was integrated into the Broadway Revue "Show Girl", which opened in 1961 and ran for 100 performances; Channing drew her 2 Tony nom.

Subsequently to this she toured with George burns, and after that the supplies from George Bernard Shaw's "the millionairess"."Transfer" George burns and Carol Channing,” brought her an Emmy merit.

Under the direction of Gower champion Channing was once again the toast of Broadway in “Hello Dolly," which won 10 Tony awards, in what quantity the best lady's role. It arose and was cut in the tuner proper 30 years.

In 1968, Channing received a special merit Tony. She was spotted on Broadway in a rework of "Gentlemen love blondes “called” Lorelei" in 1974, and drew Tony nom.

Channing later toured with Sugar Babies on tour and Revue based on Herman's musicals Jerry's Girls. In 1986-87, she toured in "legends" with Mary Martin; setting interested in a huge share of their own popularity fights between 2-star sky, and the show has never reached Broadway. The playwright, Pulitzer prize winner James Kirkwood Jr., wrote a book about the experiment " the diary of a Reckless playwright: critical adventures on the road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing.”

In addition to the "overwhelmingly progressive Millie,“ the concert Channing Bolsena on the screen was a rarity, and in a host of cameos, including” Skidoo “and "the group's lonely hearts club Sergeant pepper"."In 1966, she had a sitcom, desi Arnaz, 'The Carol Channing Show', which remained unsold.

She has performed as a guest on television sitcoms and talk shows, covering CBS ' What's my Line?, "on which she was seen in 11 episodes of 1962-66. She repeated on the "boat of love” as aunt Sylvia, and she did some off-screen work in cartoons, particularly as grandma Addams in 15 episodes of the animated series" the Addams family", which ran 1992-93. She did various voices in 13 episodes of " where's Waldo?"in 1991.

In 1995, Channing received the Tony award for lifetime achievement.

The actress became the subject of well-acquired in 2011 documentary " Carol Channing: more than life.”

In 1956, Channing married her own Manager, former television producer Charles Franklin Lowe, who adopted her offspring Channing Lowe prof football player Alexander Carson, the second wife of Channing (novelist Theodore Naidish was her first). Lowe's husband died in 1999.

Channing married his own school favorite 70 years back, Harry Kullijian in may 2003; he died in December 2011.

She has a son, Channing Lowe, and the closest family member, Sylvia long.

Donations have every chance of being made to the Carol Channing arena at Lowell high school (1101 Dr. eucalyptus, San Francisco, CA 94132 | (415) 759-3066) or the McCallum theater (73000 Fred Waring doctor, palm desert, CA 92260).