Betty White

TV Actress

Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, United States on January 17th, 1922 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 99, Betty White biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Betty Marion White, Queen of T.V.
Date of Birth
January 17, 1922
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Death Date
Dec 31, 2021 (age 99)
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Networth
$45 Million
Profession
Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Model, Musician, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Television Presenter, Voice Actor, Writer
Betty White Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 99 years old, Betty White has this physical status:

Height
163cm
Weight
58kg
Hair Color
Gray
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Betty White Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Christianity
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Mann School Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills High School
Betty White Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Dick Barker ​ ​(m. 1945; div. 1945)​, Lane Allen ​ ​(m. 1947; div. 1949)​, Allen Ludden ​ ​(m. 1963; died 1981)​
Children
Not Available
Dating / Affair
Dick Barker (1945), Lane Allen (1947-1949), Allen Ludden (1963-1981)
Parents
Horace Logan White, Tess Curtis White
Siblings
None
Betty White Life

Betty White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), also known as Betty White, is an American actress and comedian with the longest television career of any entertainer, spanning 80 years.

She is one of the first women to have power both on camera and behind the camera, and the first woman to produce a sitcom (Life with Elizabeth), which resulted in her being named honorary correspondent of Hollywood in 1955. Elka Ostrovsky on Tuesday in Cleveland, 2010. White, a staple participant of many American game shows including Password, Match Game, Hollywood Squares, and The $25,000 Pyramid, has been named as the first woman to receive an Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host in 1983. She is also known for her appearances on Boston Legal, Mama's Family, and Saturday Night Live. She has received eight Emmy Awards in various categories, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award.

She is also a member of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is a Television Hall of Fame inductee (class of 1995), and a Disney Legend (class of 2009).

Early life

Betty Marion White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on January 17, 1922. Betty, not Elizabeth's shorter version, was her legal name, not a shortened version of Elizabeth, according to her. She was Christine Tess (née Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a Michigan lighting company executive. Her paternal grandfather was Danish and her maternal grandfather was Greek, with her other roots being English and Welsh (both of her grandmothers were Canadians with roots in Ontario).

In 1923, White's family moved to Alhambra, California, and later to Los Angeles as a result of the Great Depression. Her father invented crystal radios and sold them where he could, in order to make extra money. Since it was the height of the Depression, and not everyone had a large budget, he would trade the radios for other products, including dogs on occasion.

White attended Horace Mann Elementary School in Beverly Hills and Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1939. Her interest in wildlife was sparked by family trips to the Sierra Nevada. She aspired to a career as a forest ranger but was unable to do so because women weren't allowed to serve as rangers at that time. Rather, White pursued a keen interest in writing. She wrote and performed in a Horace Mann School graduation play, and she discovered her passion for being a performer. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, were inspired by her idols, and she decided to pursue a career as an actress.

On an experimental television display, she and a classmate performed songs from The Merry Widow one month after her high school graduation. White discovered acting work, and her first professional acting gig was at the Bliss Hayden Little Theatre.

White volunteered for the American Women's Voluntary Services in 1941, after the United States entered World War II. Her duties included driving a PX truck with military equipment to the Hollywood Hills. She also attended marches for troops before being sent overseas. "It was a strange time and out of balance with everything," White said in a reflection on her wartime service.

Personal life

White met her first husband, Dick Barker, a United States Army Air Forces P-38 pilot, while volunteering with the American Women's Voluntary Services. The pair married and relocated to Belle Center, Ohio, where Barker owned a chicken farm, but White did not enjoy this. They returned to Los Angeles and divorced within a year.

Lane Allen, a Hollywood talent agent, married her in 1947. In 1949, the couple separated because he wanted a family but she preferred a career rather than children.

White married television presenter and comedian Allen Ludden, who appeared on his game show Password as a celebrity celebrity in 1961, on June 14, 1963, and her legal name was changed to Betty White Ludden. He proposed to White at least twice before she accepted. Felix and Oscar's appearance on Password brought them together in an episode of The Odd Couple starring Felix and Oscar's appearance on Password.

John Steinbeck, one of the couple's most popular associates, was one of them. White writes about her authorship in her 2011 book If You Ask Me (and of course you didn't). Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, Ludden's wife, attended the same kindergarten as Steinbeck's wife Elaine Steinbeck. For his birthday, Steinbeck delivered a early draft of his Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance address to Ludden. They also had a lifelong friendship with blind musician and motivational speaker Tom Sullivan; they first met in 1968 while Sullivan was playing in a small bar; and White and Ludden were in a play on Cape Cod. Leading Lady, a white and Sullivan book about Sullivan's first seeing eye dog, who lived with White after being fired, co-wrote Leading Lady.

Although White and Ludden had no children together, Margaret McGloin Ludden, a cancer sufferer who died in 1961, was a stepmother to his three children. Allen Ludden died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles on June 9, 1981. White never remarried. In an interview with Larry King, White replied, "Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?" When James Lipton asked Inside the Actors Studio in 2010 that Heaven does exist, what would she like God to say to her as she walked through the Pearly gates? Allen is here.

White attended Unity Church, which is part of the New Thought Movement.

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Betty White Career

Career

White made the rounds to film studios looking for jobs after the war, but she was refused because she was "not photogenic." She began to look for radio jobs, but being photogenic didn't matter.

Her first radio jobs included reading advertisements and playing bit parts, as well as doing crowd noises. She made about five dollars a show. She'd do just about everything, like performing on a show for free. She appeared on shows including Blondie, The Great Gildersleeve, and This Is Your FBI. The Betty White Show was then offered her own radio show, The Betty White Show. She began co-hosting on television's daily live television variety show Hollywood on Television, originally called Make Believe Ballroom on KFWB and later on KLAC-TV (now KCOP-TV) in Los Angeles in 1949.

After Jarvis' departure, she began the show by herself in 1952, spanning five and a half hours of live ad lib television for six weeks in a row. White will perform at least a few songs on every broadcast as part of her varying variety series over the years. Gertrude Berg was nominated for her first Emmy Award as "Best Actress" on television in 1951, contending with Judith Anderson, Helen Hayes, and Imogene Coca; the award went to Judith Anderson. At this point, the award was given for body of work, but there were no names for shows in nominations.

White co-founded Bandy Productions with writer George Tibbles and Don Fedderson, a producer, in 1952, the same year she first began broadcasting Hollywood on television. The trio aimed to produce new shows based on existing characters from sketches seen on television. Life with Elizabeth was created by White, Fedderson, and Tibbles, with White portraying the title character. The program started on KLAC-TV in 1951 and received the prestigious Los Angeles Emmy Award in 1952.

Elizabeth was nationally syndicated from 1953 to 1955, allowing White to be one of the few women in television with complete creative control in front and behind the camera. The show was unusual for a sitcom in the 1950s because it was co-produced and owned by a twenty-eight-year-old woman who still lived with her parents. White said they were not concerned with relevance in those days, and that most of the incidents were based on true life events that happened to her, the actor who played Alvin and the writer.

White also appeared in television commercials seen on live television in Los Angeles, including a recreation of the "Dr. Ross Dog Food" commercial from KTLA in the 1950s. As the owner of a small-town diner who received an anonymous donation of $1 million, she appeared on The Millionaire in the 1956 episode "The Virginia Lennart Story."

White hosted and produced the Betty White Show, first on KLAC-TV and then on NBC (her first television, but second show to include the word). She had creative control over the series as she sitcom, and she was able to recruit a female director. In a first for American network variety television, her show featured an African-American artist, but the program was chastised for including tap dancer Arthur Duncan as a regular cast member. When NBC NBC boosted the show nationally, the criticism came as NBC broadened it. If Duncan was barred from the series, local Southern stations in the Jim Crow period threatened to resign. "I'm sorry," White said in reaction. Duncan got more air time because he lived with it. The show began as a ratings hit, but as a result of the show, time slots were regularly changed and decreased viewership were also affected by lower viewership. NBC had seemingly scrapped the series by the year's end.

Vicki Angel appeared on ABC sitcom Date with the Angels from 1957 to 1958 following her retirement from Life with Elizabeth. The film, which was based on the Elmer Rice play Dream Girl, will be primarily based on Vicki's daydreaming tendencies. The sponsor, on the other hand, was dissatisfied with the fantasy elements and was compelled to have them deleted. "I can honestly say that this was the only time I've ever wanted to get out of a show," White later said. The sitcom was a critical and rating failure, but ABC would not encourage White out of her employment deal and expected her to serve the remaining thirteen weeks in their contract. White revived her old talk/variety show, The Betty White Show, which aired until her contract was completed, rather than a retooled version of the sitcom.

White did have some good experiences: she first met Lucille Ball while doing so on the show Date With the Angels and I Love Lucy were shot on the same Culver Studios lot. The two quickly developed a bond over their achievements in the 1950s' male-dominated television market. They depended on one another during divorce, sickness, personal loss, and even competed against one another on various game shows.

White made her professional debut in a week-long production of the play Third Best Sport at the Ephrata Legion Star Playhouse in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, in July 1959.

White became a staple of network game shows and talk shows by the 1960s, including Jack Paar and later Johnny Carson's era of The Tonight Show. She appeared on the hit Password show as a celebrity guest from 1961 to 1975. Allen Ludden, the show's host, married her in 1963. She appeared on the show's three latest iterations, Password Plus, Super Password, and Million Dollar Password. What's My Line was a regular game show appearance on What's My Line? Starting in 1955, To Tell the Truth (in 1961, 1990, and 2015), I've Got a Secret (in 1972–1972), and Pyramid (in 1982). In the 1962 drama Advise & Consent, she made her television debut as fictional Kansas Senator Elizabeth Ames Adams; in 2004, host Brian Lamb remarked on White's longevity as an actress, rather than the fact that she was portraying a solid female senator in 1962. The Senator Adams character would have reflected Margaret Chase Smith, according to him and Donald A. Ritchie. In 1963, White appeared in a production of The King and I at the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre, with Charles Korvin co-starring as the king.

Today, NBC gave her an anchor position on their flagship breakfast television program Today. She turned down the bid because she didn't want to move to New York City permanently (where Today is produced). Barbara Walters took over Barbara Walters' job when Barbara Walters took over. White began a nineteen-year stint as hostess and commentator on NBC's annual Rose Parade television show (co-hosting with Roy Neal and later Lorne Greene) and appeared on a number of late-night talk shows, including Jack Paar's The Tonight Show and several other daytime game shows, in the 1950s and 1960s.

As the "man-hungry" Sue Ann Nivens, White appeared in many appearances in the fourth season (1973–74). Although White portrayed her character as "icky sweet," she felt she was the very definition of feminine passivity, owing to the fact that she never mocked her own persona on film in exactly the same way. After Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern, dropped the show, the Mary Tyler Moore Show's producers made Sue Ann Nivens a regular character and brought White to the main cast for the fifth season.

Sue Ann's brutal, cynical demeanor on the fictional WJM-TV show The Happy Homemaker was a running gag. Moore suggested at a production meeting that resulted in White herself playing Betty White. We need someone who can be sickeningly sweet, like Betty White." In 1975 and 1976, White received two Emmy Awards back-to-back for her role in the hugely popular series.

Mary Tyler Moore and her partner Grant Tinker were close friends with White and her husband Allen Ludden. Moore explained that producers, who were aware of Moore and White's marriage, were initially reluctant to audition for the role because, if she hadn't been correct, it would result in confusion between the two actors.

In 1975, NBC recalled White as the tournament of Roses Parade's commentator hostess, feeling that she was too heavily associated with rival network CBS's The Mary Tyler Moore Show in comparison. White told People that it was difficult "watching someone else do their parade," but that she would soon start a ten-year tenure as hostess of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for CBS. White co-starred with John Hillerman and former Mary Tyler Moore co-star Georgia Engel after the conclusion of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977. The numbers were poor, and it was cancelled after one season, competing against Monday Night Football in its timeslot.

With This Ring, The Greatest Place to Be, Before and After, and The Gossip Columnist, White appeared on several television shows and television series including With This Ring and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson appeared in numerous sketches and premiered in a variety of television shows and television miniseries, including With This Ring, The Best Place to Be, Before and After.

White became the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Game Show Host for the NBC's Just Men! She was named the "First Lady of Game Shows" because of the volume of work she did on them.

White appeared on Ellen Harper Jackson on the television series Mama's Family from 1983 to 1984, as well as future Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan. In a series of sketches on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s, White had created this person.

In 1985, White celebrated her second signature role and her biggest success of her career as the St. Olaf, Minnesota native Rose Nylund of The Golden Girls, earning her second iconic role and her second biggest hit of her career. Four widowed or divorced women in their "golden years" who shared a house in Miami were chronicled in the series. The Golden Girls, which also starred Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, and Rue McClanahan, were extremely popular and ran from 1985 to 1992. For the first season of The Golden Girls, White received one Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (Getty was also nominated every year, but not in the supporting actress category).

Bea Arthur, a co-star of the Golden Girls, had a strained relationship with her, revealing that Arthur "was not that fond of me" and that "she found me a pain in the neck." It was my optimistic attitude, and Bea mad some days. She'd be tumultuous if I was happy." "I knew it would hurt, but I didn't know it would hurt this much," White said after Arthur's death in 2009. Despite their differences, The Golden Girls was a positive experience for both actresses and audiences, who expressed a deep admiration for the show, their roles, and the achievements made as an ensemble cast.

Blanche was originally in The Golden Girls, and Rue McClanahan was given the role of Rose (the two characters being similar to roles played in Mary Tyler Moore and Maude, respectively). In a documentary on the series, Jay Sandrich, the pilot's producer, suggested that since they had worked together in the past, they might change roles. White had reservations about her potential to play Rose until Sandrich told her that Rose was "terminally naive." "If you told Rose you were so hungry you should eat a horse, she'd call the ASPCA."

After Arthur announced her decision to leave the series, the Golden Girls ended in 1992. In the spin-off The Golden Palace, White, McClanahan, and Getty reprised their roles as Rose, Blanche, and Sophia. The series was short-lived, and only lasted for one season. In addition, White reimagined her Rose Nylund appearance in guest appearances on the NBC shows Empty Nest and Nurses, which are both set in Miami.

White guest appeared on several television shows after The Golden Palace ended, including Suddenly Susan, The Practice, and Yes, Dear, where she received Emmy nominations for her individual appearances. In 1996, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, co-starring John Larroquette on an episode of The John Larroquette Show. A diva-like White, a parody on Sunset Boulevard, begged Larroquette to assist in writing her memoir in the episode "Here We Go Again," a parody on Sunset Boulevard. At one point, Golden Girls co-stars McClanahan and Getty appear as themselves. When all four four members of the "original" cast members appear in public, Larroquette is required to dress in drag as Bea Arthur.

White appeared in Ann Douglas, the long-lost mother of the show's matriarch, played by Susan Flannery, in December 2006. Catherine Piper, a calculating, blackmailing gossip reporter, played a recurring role in ABC's Boston Legal from 2005 to 2008, a role she first appeared on The Practice in 2004.

Craig Ferguson appeared in many sketches and returned to Password in its new iteration, The Million Dollar Password, on June 12, 2008, (episode #3), to the end of the contest. On May 19, 2008, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as every remaining cast member of the series. White was featured in PetMed Express television commercials beginning in 2007, demonstrating her concern with animal rights.

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds co-starred in The Proposal, a romantic comedy that debuted in 2009. Mars, Incorporated, a candy company, in 2009, launched a worldwide campaign for their Snickers bar; the campaign's slogan was: "You're not hungry if you're hungry." During the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV, White appeared in the company's advertisement for the candy alongside Abe Vigoda. The commercial became extremely popular, and gained the top spot on the Super Bowl Ad Meter.

Following the success of the Snickers commercial, a grassroots movement named "Betty White to Host SNL" (Please) began on Facebook in January 2010. When NBC announced on March 11, 2010, that White would in fact host Saturday Night Live on May 8. The appearance made her, at age 88, the oldest person to host the show, defeating Miskel Spillman, the winner of SNL's "Anybody Can Host" contest, who was 80 when she appeared in 1977. White thanked Facebook and joked that she "didn't know what Facebook was like," and now that I do know what it is, it seems to be a huge waste of time." She received the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Both White and Jean Smart are the only actresses to have been recognized in all three comedy Emmy nominations.

Elka Ostrovsky, the house caretaker on TV Land's original sitcom Hot in Cleveland, appeared alongside Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick in June 2010. The first attempt at a scripted comedy by TV Land was hot in Cleveland (the channel has rerun other sitcoms since its debut). White was only supposed to appear in the pilot of the series, but the entire story was refused to be broadcast. In 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Elka, but she was disqualified to Julie Bowen for Modern Family. The series lasted for six seasons, totaling 128 episodes, with the hour-long final episode airing on June 3, 2015.

White also appeared in The Lost Valentine's Hall of Fame exhibition on January 30, 2011 (this presentation received the highest rating for a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation in the previous four years, according to Nielsen Media Research's TV ratings, and White hosted and executive produced Off Their Rockers, a series in which senior citizens perform practical jokes on the younger generation. She received three Emmy nominations for this performance.

In late 2010, Betty White's 2011 calendar was released. The calendar includes photos from White's time with him and with various animals. On July 22, 2010, she began her own clothing line, which also included shirts with her name on them. The proceeds were donated to various animal charities that she favored.

White's success in 2012 with her first Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for her book If You Ask Me. She has also received the UCLA Jack Benny Award for Comedy, honoring her contribution to television, and was roasted at the New York Friars Club. Betty White's 90th Birthday Party on NBC aired a day before her birthday on January 16, 2012. White's appearances featured many actors with whom White worked over the years as well as a remark from then sitting president Barack Obama. In January 2013, NBC once more celebrated White's birthday with a television special starring celebrity friends, including former President Bill Clinton; the special aired on February 5.

On February 15, 2015, White made her final appearance on Saturday Night Live when she attended the 40th Anniversary Special on Saturday Night Live. She appeared on "The Californians" sketch alongside current SNL cast members, as well as Bill Hader, Taylor Swift, and Kerry Washington. In a touching sketch, White ends up kissing Bradley Cooper.

Betty White: First Lady of Television, a PBS documentary, celebrated White's career on August 18, 2018. The documentary was shot over a ten-year period and featured archived footage and interviews from colleagues and friends. In 2019, White appeared in Pixar's Toy Story 4, portraying Bitey White, a toy tiger named after her. Carol Burnett, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks' other toys she posted a scene with were named and played by her. "It was amazing the way they integrated our names into the characters," White said, "and I'm a sucker for animals, so the tiger was delectable."

Betty White, a 100th birthday celebration film, was released in U.S. theaters in December 2021, well before White's death. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kimmel, Morgan Freeman, Craig Ferguson, James Corden, Wendie Malick, and Jennifer Love Hewitt. People magazine selected her as the cover story of its January 10, 2022, newsstand newspaper and a special commemorative edition to commemorate the upcoming landmark, which were released days before her death.

Following White's death, event promoters Fathom Events' Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein revealed on Facebook that the pre-filmed film would go forward as planned.

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Betty White used to ridicule her late costar Estelle Getty on set, according to the Golden Girls author

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 26, 2024
Estelle - who appeared on the popular series, had trouble remembering her lines when the show first began, claiming she was dealing with dementia, but she hadn't been diagnosed yet. Betty, according to him, made a ruse to remind her lines so she would have time to recall her lines. 'At the time, because I was close with Estelle, I felt, "Why is she making fun of Estelle?" I was extremely protective,' he said.

In a tiny seaside town, the 'octopus' billionaire bought up Carmel: Patrice Pastor's numerous houses

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 19, 2024
Patrice Pastor, Monaco's real estate juggernaut, has bought at least 15 iconic properties in Carmel's seaside village, leaving locals 'terrified' that they are giving over our town to one person who is doing what he wants to do.' The La Rambla building's $7.5 million purchase last month is the latest in a string of deals for the 51-year-old since he and his company Esperanza Carmel set their sights on the village ten years ago. A fist-fight erupted in October between a small business owner and a village administrator, after Pastor Anthony who pleaded for permission to overrule planning rules in order to move a historic wall, prompting the caller. Locals are concerned that soaring costs would force them out of a village where the population has already decreased from 3,700 to 3,200 since 2010.

Since moving into the same retirement home 75 years after becoming their best friends at school, four California women were dubbed the genuine life Golden Girls

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 10, 2024
Joan Harris, Elsie Webb, Sylvia Crane, and Mary Grace Tassone reunited at Atria Senior Living in Grass Valley, California, 75 years after they attended high school together, living like a modern-day Golden Girls. The four women all graduated from Mount Saint Mary Academy in the 1950s and went on their separate paths seeking jobs and families, with 12 girls having 12 children between them. Crane was the last of the group to enter the living community in July, and she said she felt a sense of calm when seeing her friends' familiar faces. It was a lovely feeling when she arrived in the dining room.'