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Carol Burnett Biography

(1933–)

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Television
1950 The Speidel Show
1956 Stanley

1958 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1958 The Garry Moore Show
1960 The United States Steel Hour
1960 The Carol Burnett Show
1961 The DuPont Show of the Week
1962 The Twilight Zone
1963 Calamity Jane
1964 Once Upon a Mattress
1967 Our Place
1967–79 The Carol Burnett Show (series)
1967 Get Smart
1966–7 The Lucy Show
1967, 1969 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1970 The Carol Burnett Show in London
1972 Once Upon a Mattress
1974 6 Rms Riv Vu
1974 Out to Lunch
1975 Twigs
1970 All My Children
1976 Sills and Burnett at the Met
1977 Insight
1977 3 Girls 3
1978 The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
1979 Friendly Fire
1979 Carol Burnett & Company
1979 The Tenth Month
1981 Great Performances
1981 Christmas in Hawaii
1982 Lights, Camera, Annie!
1982 Eunice
1982 Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1983 Between Friends
1983–5 Mama's Family
1985 The Laundromat
1985 Happily Ever After
1986 Fresno
1987 Plaza Suite
1987 Fame
1988 Magnum P.I.
1988 Hostage
1991 Carol & Company (series)
1991 The Carol Burnett Show (series)
1994 Seasons of the Heart
1997 Touched by an Angel
1997–9 Mad About You
1998 Grace
1998 The Marriage Fool
2000 Putting It Together
2004 The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up The Lights
2005 Once Upon a Mattress
2006 Desperate Housewives

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Television comedienne and actress. Born on April 26, 1933, in San Antonio, Texas. Carol Burnett was one of the most popular comediennes on television during the 1960s and 1970s. After studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, she made her way to New York City.

Carol Burnett made her first television appearance in early 1950s with a short stint on a children's television show. She became a regular on the Garry Moore Show in 1959 and was also featured on occasional CBS-TV specials over the years. Already a popular performer, she got her own comedy-variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, in 1967. The show featured usually opened with a question and answer session with the audience and the silliness ensued — broad comedy skits and sketches with Burnett using her expressive face to great humorous ends. The show ran for eleven seasons, leaving the air in 1978. Burnett later returned to television with the comedy series Carol & Company in 1990 and The Carol Burnett Show in 1991 — neither effort lasted long. Most recently Carol Burnett has made a guest appearance on the hit television series Desperate Housewives in 2006.

In addition to her television work, Carol Burnett has appeared in a number of feature films, including Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), Annie (1982), and Noises Off (1992). She has also done a lot of stage work. She made her Broadway debut in the musical Once Upon a Mattress in 1959. Over the years, Burnett went on to appear in a few other Broadway shows, including Moon Over Buffalo (1995-1996) and Putting It Together (1999-2000). Her 1986 autobiography, One More Time: A Memoir, provided the source material for the play Hollywood Arms, which played on Broadway from October 2002 to January 2003. Burnett co-wrote the piece with her daughter Carrie Hamilton.

Carol Burnett has been married twice. Her first marriage to Don Saroyan lasted from 1955 to 1962. The following year she married Joe Hamilton. The couple has three daughters before divorcing in 1984. Sadly, their daughter Carrie died in 2002, and Burnett has been working to establish the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse in her honor.