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Channing reprised the role of Lorelei Lee in the musical Lorelei.
Channing reprised her lead role as an Upper East Side matron in the film version of Six Degrees of Separation.

Channing and her
She meets Sister Husband ( Stockard Channing ), a woman who runs the Welcome Wagon in town, and mistakenly believes Novalee to be her long-lost relative Ruth Ann.
Shortly before filming was completed, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve ( 1950 ).
" In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked her portrayal of Margo Channing in the film as fifth on their list of " 100 Greatest Performances of All Time ", commenting, " There is something deliciously audacious about her gleeful willingness to play such unattractive emotions as jealousy, bitterness, and neediness.
The stamp features an image of her in the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve ( 1950 ).
Guare adapted the play for film released in 1993 directed by Fred Schepisi with Stockard Channing ( reprising her role as Ouisa Kittredge ), Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Anthony Rapp and Will Smith.
In 1894, Gilman sent her daughter west to live with her former husband and his second wife, Grace Ellery Channing, who was a close friend of Gilman's.
She sold property that had been left to her in Connecticut, and went with a friend, Grace Channing, to Pasadena where the cure of her depression can be seen through the transformation of her intellectual life.
* See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his miscellaneous pieces ( 1823 ); and the Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin ( 1864 ), including her correspondence ( 1826 – 1842 ) with William Ellery Channing, edited by P. H. Le Breton.
For her role as Angela Channing, Wyman was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award five times ( for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and for Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time Serial ), and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1983 and 1984.
In Andrew Bergman's Isn't She Great, a highly fictionalized account of the life and career of author Jacqueline Susann, she played alongside Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing, portraying Susann with her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent Irving Mansfield, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer.
According to Channing's 2002 memoir, when she left home to attend Bennington College in Vermont, her mother Adelaide informed Channing that her father George, whom Carol had believed was born in Rhode Island, had actually been born in Augusta, Georgia.
Channing was introduced to the stage while helping her mother.
Decades later, Arden would play " Dolly " in a road company after Channing finally relinquished her signature role.
During her film career, Channing also made some guest appearances on television sitcoms and talk shows, including CBS's What's My Line ?, on which she appeared in eleven episodes from 1962 to 1966.
Dori Berinstein's documentary film about her was Carol Channing: Larger Than Life ( 2011 ).
In 1956, Channing married her manager and publicist, Charles Lowe.

Channing and role
After his departure, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Alexander Skarsgård, Ewan McGregor, Robert Pattinson, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Kinnaman, Russell Crowe, Chris Pine, Ryan Reynolds, and Jon Hamm were considered for the lead role.
Baxter returned to Broadway during the 1970s in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, but this time in the " Margo Channing " role played by Bette Davis in the film ( succeeding Lauren Bacall, who won a Tony Award in the role ).
But the acclaimed cast of the show — including Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen ( whose President Bartlet was initially scripted as a small role ) and Stockard Channing ( whose First Lady was initially scripted as a guest role )— meant that Sam Seaborn could no longer be considered the lead character.
Five years later, Channing had a featured role in a revue, Lend an Ear.
Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Glenn Close, Ally Sheedy, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Annie Potts, Robin Wright, Nancy Allen, Joan Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Kim Basinger, Ellen Barkin, Patricia Clarkson, Geena Davis, Laura Dern, Linda Fiorentino, Bridget Fonda, Carrie Fisher, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Helen Hunt, Holly Hunter, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving, Nicole Kidman, Diane Lane, Christine Lahti, Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Heather Locklear, Andie MacDowell, Madonna, Virginia Madsen, Demi Moore, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Tatum O ' Neal, Annette O ' Toole, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Greta Scacchi, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Steenburgen, Julia Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Debra Winger were all offered but turned down the role of Catherine Tramell.
Channing made her television debut on Sesame Street in the role of the The Number Painter's female victim.
For the role, Channing went through considerable transformation, with the syndicated column " TV Scout " reporting months later, " It was a great make-up job — at least the part that made very pretty Stockard look so ugly.
The production was directed by Lynne Meadow and the cast included Channing in the role of Susan, for which she won a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress.
In 1999, Channing took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing.
Channing received the 2002 London Film Critics Circle Award ( ALFS ) for Best Actress of the Year for her role in the film The Business of Strangers.
Channing played the role of Lydia Barnes, ex-wife of Stewart Barnes ( Henry Winkler ), and had two sons and a lesbian daughter ( Christopher Gorham, Paula Marshall, Ty Burrel, Jennifer Tilly ).
* Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 for " Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie " for Stockard Channing for her role as Judy Shepard
Barbara Stanwyck had been considered for the role of Angela Channing but turned it down.
Under the influence of European basketball, the offensive role of big men has been redefined to include more emphasis on perimeter play, as exemplified by 3-point shooting big men like Dirk Nowitzki, Mehmet Okur, Andrea Bargnani and Channing Frye.
Stockard Channing appears briefly in the uncredited role of Beverly, a literary agent who criticizes Oscar's affecting the persona of an American writer in Paris as passé and unmarketable.

Channing and London
In 1885 Channing School For Girls opened in London, primarily for the daughters of Unitarian ministers.
Fiorina attended Channing School in London, and later attended Charles E. Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina, for her senior year ; the family relocated frequently during this time.
A young man, Bobby Ray ( Jason London ) from the nearby small town of Snydersville, happens by and gives them a ride, where they take refuge in a bed and breakfast owned by Carol Ann ( Stockard Channing ) and her abusive car repairman husband, Virgil ( Arliss Howard ).
* Channing School For Girls, Highgate, London, UK

Channing and 1992
Channing did voice-over work in cartoons, most notably as Grandmama in an animated version of The Addams Family which ran from 1992 to 1995.
The 1992 compilation Incesticide featured the tracks " Big Long Now ", " Stain ", and " Dive ", which all credited Channing as drummer.
After leaving Nirvana, Channing formed the Fire Ants who released the Stripped EP on Dekema Records in 1992, produced by Jack Endino, who had also produced Bleach.
Channing was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress three times in the 1990s: in 1991, for Six Degrees of Separation ; in 1992, for Four Baboons Adoring the Sun ; and in 1999, for The Lion in Winter.
Kevin formed Fire Ants in 1992 with his brother Brian, bassist Dan McDonald, and former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing.

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