The Poetic Justice Behind The Placement Of Carol Burnett's Star On The Walk Of Fame

Burnett had a difficult time growing up as both of her parents struggled with alcoholism, according to the Walk of Fame. Her parents eventually split up, and she was largely raised by her grandmother, Mabel Eudoria White. Burnett and her half-sister Chrissy lived with their grandmother in a boarding house in Hollywood, California (via Masterworks Broadway). Her creative talents emerged early with her trying to fool the other tenants in the boarding house that she had a twin sister named Karen. But Burnett eventually tired of playing both parts with all the required costume changes needed to pull the stunt off.

Both of Burnett's parents had some connections to the entertainment industry –- her father managed a movie theater and her mother wrote publicity materials for film studios. But it was really her grandmother who helped inspire her life path, according to Entertainment Tonight Online. Burnett loved to go to the movies with her grandmother, and these trips to the theater had a lasting impact on her.

Burnett attended Hollywood High School, graduating in 1951. She also worked as an usherette at the Warner Brothers Theater around this time. But Burnett was sacked from her job in 1951 for reportedly telling a couple not to go into the theater until the previous film had ended. It seemed that Burnett was trying to stop them from spoiling the finale of "Strangers on a Train." And it was this unjust dismissal that inspired Burnett's special request for her star on the Walk of Fame. 

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