(Jewish Group) Broadway star Carol Channing dies aged 97
Broadway star Carol Channing, who delighted audiences over almost 5,000 performances as the scheming Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly, has died aged 97.
Publicist B Harlan Boll said Channing died of natural causes at 12.31am on Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, California. He said she had twice suffered strokes in the last year.
Besides Hello, Dolly, Channing, whose mother is of German Jewish descent and described herself as ‘part Jewish’, starred in other Broadway shows, but none with equal magnetism. She often appeared on television and in nightclubs, for a time partnering with George Burns in Las Vegas and a national tour.
Her outsized personality seemed too much for the screen, and she made only a few movies, notably The First Travelling Saleslady with Ginger Rogers and Thoroughly Modern Millie with Julie Andrews.
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I had no idea about her Jewish ties or that she spoke fluent Yiddish! 
