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Carol Channing
*Carol Channing was born January 31 in 1921. She is an African American actress.
She was born in Seattle, Washington. When she left home to attend Bennington College, her mother informed her that her father, a journalist whom she had believed was born in Rhode Island, was actually a light-complected African-American born in Augusta, Georgia who had passed for white, saying that the only reason she was telling her was so she wouldn't be surprised "if she had a black baby".
She kept her heritage secret so she would not be typecast on Broadway and in Hollywood, ultimately revealing it only in her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess, which was published in 2002, when she was more than 80 years old.
Reference:
Just Lucky I Guess
by Carol Channing
Simon & Schuster, Oct 2002
ISBN: 0743216067
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