Carol Burnett: Terrible in The Front Page
Carol Burnett repeatedly cites The Front Page as her most embarrassing Hollywood moment, recalling nervous filming, avoiding the film after release due to poor reviews, and her belief that she was terrible in the role. She even recounts a mortifying in-flight moment when the film played on a plane and a flight attendant announced a star, prompting everyone to smile while she hid her face.
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About Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including five Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, twelve People's Choice Awards, two Peabody Awards. Burnett was honored with a Special Tony Award in 1969, Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1975, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015, and the inaugural Golden Globe Carol Burnett Award in 2019.
Everything about Carol Burnett →- Occupation
- singer, stage actor, film actor, television actor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 26, 1933