My elderly neighbor, who lived in LA since childhood and spent decades working in entertainment has told me some scrazy stories, but the craziest is that Carol Channing and Diana Ross were actually cousins, and that Carol's machinations were a big part of Diana's ascension to lead status in the Supremes.
Carol Channing and Diana Ross were secretly COUSINS
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | 07/11/2012 |
Whenever you are near me.... I hear a SHHYMPHONY.... shhweet tender MELODY....
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | 07/11/2012 |
Carol Channing had a black grandfather so it could be true.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | 07/11/2012 |
Channing's from San Francisco and San Francisco lead the way with mixed marriages. They were all the same race marriages, just some white people marrying people not so white.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | 07/11/2012 |
The legs, the smile...they do look a alike.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | 07/11/2012 |
Has anyone done a separated at birth photo of them?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | 07/11/2012 |
They both have the same smile, teeth, and large eyes.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | 07/11/2012 |
R7's pic really looks like a lot of the black people who used to live in San Francisco. Today they are much more generic.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | 07/11/2012 |
really????
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | 07/11/2012 |
On the "Diana Ross and The Supremes Greatest Hits" album, there is a liner note from Carol Channing commenting on her love for The Supremes.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | 07/11/2012 |
Yes, it was ww2 that brought in the generics.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | 07/11/2012 |
Raaaazzzzberries!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | 07/11/2012 |
They both wore the same type of red dress from Hello Dolly and Lady Sings The Blues.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | 07/11/2012 |
They both like corn too.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | 07/11/2012 |
R19 that hasn't been funny in decades.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | 07/11/2012 |
If by cousins you mean lovers yes.
That is where the term Kissing Cousins started
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | 07/11/2012 |
They share a wig maker.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | 07/11/2012 |
her momma looks black.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | 07/11/2012 |
It was actually Carol's dad who had the mixed ancestry, not the mother. He had rather full lips, but I know a lot of white people with soup coolers like that...
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | 07/11/2012 |