<![CDATA[Any taped performance of Hello Dolly?]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Carol Channing

joncamaney — 18 years ago(January 05, 2008 03:54 PM)

It is a shame movies never took to Carol Channing, and although one of her few appearances, in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" is not enough. Would love to get hold of "Skidoo" though it's said to be a disaster.
Are there any taped performances of her "Hello Dolly" turn in Broadway. It's a shame it went to Barbra Streisand.
Fewer stars had so little exposure in Hollywood. At least Ethel Merman had a star turn in the minor but enjoyable "Call Me Madam" (though she was also passed over for Gypsy, which went to Rosalind Russell).
Well, at least we have the CDs of both Gypsy and Hello Dolly.

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She was all over television in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, mostly talk shows and variety shows but IMDB doesn't list a lot of stuff in those genres that old and who knows how much of it survives.
Most of those programs were either broadcast live or shot on videotape. Unfortunately, videotape was expensive so the networks/studios regularly recycled it an enormous chunk of TV history was literally erased. Up until the '70s it was common practice for the networks to make kinescopes of their broadcasts (a film shot off of a TV screen), but the quality was poor, and the film stock was so cheap that it was only good for one run through a projector. Kinescopes are all we have left of a lot of TV from that era, which is why it's so poorly documented on imdb, little survivb68es.

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She was all over television in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, mostly talk shows and variety shows but IMDB doesn't list a lot of stuff in those genres that old and who knows how much of it survives. There is a DVD of one of her television specials with Pearl Bailey available.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GkoqiVnPY
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I have a taped in the theatre video of the complete Hello Dolly with Carol Channing from her last tour with the show in 1995, mind you it is one of those secretively filmed bootleg video's..;the quality isn't great, but it IS carol channng and it IS Hello Dolly.I got to see her live on Broadway in Hello Dolly in the Lunt-Fontanne theatre that same year and she was lovely, she stopped the show for a standing ovation 7 times(ok, it was a matinee heavily attended by theatre queens, myself included :-)..but everything was just as I had hoped for, her curtain speech included :-))

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The closest we can come to see her performing live is a clip from the Tony Awards, in which she performs Before the Parade Passes By:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-CHnHJmEI
The number is cut short, for the sake of brevity. That aside it's still Carol Channing performing a number from Hello, Dolly! live.
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