Carol Burnett

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Carol Burnett’s life has always spun around the movies. She tells Ben Mankiewicz about her childhood spent in Hollywood movie theaters, the famous actor who helped her break into showbiz, and the movie parodies in her groundbreaking television variety show. In fact, at 91, Carol Burnett remembers more about movies than Ben! We cap it all off with a delightful Super 8 complete with seasonal gems. Plus, Carol and Ben discuss their Wordle stats…listen to find out who’s winning. Films Mentioned: The Carol Burnett Show New Faces The Pajama Game Babes in Arms All About Eve Gone with the Wind* The Fighting Guardsman Inferno (1953) Strangers on a Train On Moonlight Bay* Citizen Kane The Dolly Sisters The Godfather It's a Wonderful Life Capricorn One Ragtime Cowboy Joe Singin' in the Rain* From Here to Eternity Terms of Endearment Some Like It Hot Duel *Available on Max as of 12/3 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I was a little girl, my grandmother and I went to the movies, and that would be, I think in the 40s, especially, there was no cynicism.
0:09.8	The good guys won, the bad guys didn't. There was no gray area. So I had this feeling that everything would turn out all right. And it did.
0:23.6	Yeah, you could say things turned out all right for Carol Burnett.
0:28.2	She has won multiple Emmy Award.
0:30.4	She has a Tony and a Grammy.
0:32.5	She's received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
0:38.2	That isn't even a full list of her awards.
0:41.7	After 65 years in show business, Carol Burnett is a legit American treasure.
0:49.9	Carol is also the ideal guest for what we do here on Talking Pictures. We're interested in where
0:56.5	movies show up in people's lives. As you'll hear from her childhood in the 1940s, through
1:02.9	her groundbreaking career in television, Carol Burnett's life has been shaped over and over again
1:09.6	by the movies.
1:12.0	Carol's big break came in the 1959 Broadway show once upon a mattress.
1:17.2	She soon moved to television and the Gary Moore show.
1:20.8	Then, in 1967, Carol got her own variety show on CBS and became a star.
1:27.8	You always spend extra money on beer and on magazines and on newspapers and on extra cups of coffee.
1:35.5	But when it comes to spending anything on me, boys, you pinch and scripted things.
1:39.9	I got to hurt my life.
1:41.6	There's nothing to come out of this.
1:43.6	It is a mill, mama.
1:45.5	A pepper mill.
1:47.0	And with a pepper mill, you grind it.
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