The Gang's All Here

with Mae West

 

with Gina Lollobrigida and Carol Channing

 

with Marilyn Monroe

 

with Gloria Swanson and Tallulah Bankhead

 

with Joan Crawford

 

with George Nader

Everyone wanted a piece of the Rock.

Cold As Ice

"When they invited me to the premiere, I sent off a 200 word telegram telling why I wouldn't attend -- and I sent it collect!" -- Carol Channing on losing the film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) to Marilyn Monroe

Margot Channing

Wah, Wah, Wah, Dolly

"I was looking out the window on the 18th floor of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel [in Toronto] . . . I thought, just one more move . . . and this terrible pain will stop, this pain of losing it for all time, they're all forgotten performances, it will stop, the moment that I hit, hit jumping out the window. That's exactly what I wanted to do." - Carol Channing, on contemplating suicide after Barbra Streisand was chosen for the film version of Hello, Dolly

Diamond Triple Play

From the sublime, to the porcine, to the ridiculous.

The Dolly Sisters

"I've enjoyed wonderful health. The only time I ever got sick was when I watched Barbra Streisand in Hello, Dolly! on an airplane." - Carol Channing

Triplets

Need We Say More?

Actually, yes: "Raaaaaaaaaaaspberries!"

Stop Us if You've Heard This One Before

So, a vegetarian, a bisexual, and a Christian Scientist walk into a bar...

Say What?

Congratulations, Carol Channing! You're not dead yet!

"Are you shhh-ure?"


Well, Miss Channing, if you can survive Skidoo, you're probably damn near indestructible.


"Raaaaaaaasssshhhhh-berries!"


We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
So, besides getting down and funky, what will you do to celebrate?


"Oh! Well, firssshht, I'm going to pick out hatshh with my dear friend, Halshhton!"


"Then, I'm going to take a roll with that marveloush Shteeve Reevesh!
He looksh sho darling in his shandalsh!"


"Then I'll trade shome fashion tipsh with my fansh! The gaysh are sho good at that!"


We think that's just swell, Miss Channing. Anything else you'd like to say?


"Raaaaaaaasssshhhhh-berries!"


CAROL CHANNING
January 31, 1921

The Devil in Miss Jones

What you see is what you get, honey!

FLIP WILSON
December 8, 1933 - November 25, 1998

Hirschfeld Divas

Legends of the Fall

The most recent "legends" used in Blackglama's world-famous campaign were Naomi Campbell and Elizabeth Hurley. Is it just us, or are they not exactly making legends the way they used to?