Carol Creighton Burnett
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Ina Louise Creighton was born 8 Apr 1911 in Arkansas to William Creighton and Mabel White, as the second of their two children. Bill and Mabel divorced shortly afterward, and Bill died. At some point Mabel moved to Texas where the family lived in the area of San Antonio. At the end of her book, in a kind of afterword dated 1985, Carol Burnett states that her surviving cousins said that Ina was not a product of Bill Creighton, but rather that her father was a Mr Melton. Carol obtained Ina's birth certificate which states William Creighton as her father, but Carol theorizes that her mother had an affair with Mr Melton while still married and that Ina was the result. | Ina Louise Creighton was born 8 Apr 1911 in Arkansas to William Creighton and Mabel White, as the second of their two children. Bill and Mabel divorced shortly afterward, and Bill died. At some point Mabel moved to Texas where the family lived in the area of San Antonio. At the end of her book, in a kind of afterword dated 1985, Carol Burnett states that her surviving cousins said that Ina was not a product of Bill Creighton, but rather that her father was a Mr Melton. Carol obtained Ina's birth certificate which states William Creighton as her father, but Carol theorizes that her mother had an affair with Mr Melton while still married and that Ina was the result. | ||
| − | Ina Louise married Joseph Thomas "Jody" Burnett in Texas and had a daughter Carol Burnett. Carol was left with Ina's mother Mabel "Nanny" while Louise and Jody moved to Santa Monica, California where they were living in 1937. | + | Ina Louise married Joseph Thomas "Jody" Burnett in Texas and had a daughter Carol Burnett. Carol was left with Ina's mother Mabel "Nanny" while Louise and Jody moved to Santa Monica, California where they were living in 1937. Carol came to live with them in California, but after a short visit of perhaps some months or even a year, in which they fought, she was sent back to Nanny and Goggy. Ina and Jody divorced about this time. |
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| + | Nanny decided to move to California with Carol, and they took a room in the same boarding house where Ina lived, just down the hall. Ina meanwhile started seeing a married man and became pregnant by him. Nanny confronted him, and he disppeared from their lives. Meanwhile Ina gave birth to her second and last daughter Crissy. | ||
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| + | Carol, after some time at UCLA in which she excelled in acting and comedy, decided to move to New York City. After a struggle, she started getting jobs in stage and television. She convinced her mother to let her take Crissy to live with her in New York, and shortly after that, Ina Louise died in California. Her early death was perhaps brought on by her excessive drinking which Carol chronicles in her autobiography. | ||
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