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Betty White
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Betty White | |
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| Born | Betty Marion White (1922-01-17)January 17, 1922 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 31, 2021(2021-12-31) (aged 99) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Problems caused by a stroke |
| Other names | Gerrie, Betty White Ludden[1] |
| Education | Horace Mann School |
| Alma mater | Beverly Hills High School |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, comedian, writer |
| Years active | 1930–2021 |
| Television | Life with Elizabeth Date with the Angels The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Betty White Show The Golden Girls The Golden Palace Boston Legal Hot in Cleveland Betty White's Off Their Rockers (host) |
| Spouse(s) | Dick Barker (1945) Lane Allen (1947–1949) Allen Ludden (1963–1981; his death) |
| Children | 3 stepchildren |
Betty Marion White (January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress, comedian, presenter, singer, author, and television personality. She acted as Sue Ann Nivens in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Rose Nylund in the televisionsitcomThe Golden Girls.[2] She also starred as Elka Ostrovsky, in the TV Land comedy Hot in Cleveland.[3]
White won seven Emmy Awards during her career. In 1983, she became the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host. White also holds the record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances—her first was in 1951 and her most recent was in 2012, a span of 61 years—and became the oldest nominee as of 2013, aged 91. The actress is also the oldest winner of a competitive Grammy Award, which she won in 2012. She was host for the NBC entry Just Men!.[4]
In 2011 White began hosting a new program, Betty White's Off Their Rockers. In the program senior citizens play practical jokes on the younger generation.[5] A special Betty White's 90th Birthday Party was on NBC a day before the star's birthday on January 16, 2012. The show had appearances of many stars with whom White has worked over the years.[6] Betty White was 99 years old.
Early life
White was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She was of Greek, English, Welsh and Danish ancestry.[7][8][9] She was an only child of Horace White, a lighting company executive, and her mother was a homemaker.[10] White's family moved to Los Angeles, California during the Great Depression.[11][12] She attended Horace Mann School Beverly Hills and Beverly Hills High School. She hosted the February 10, 2014 episode of Raw.
Personal life
In 1945, White married Dick Barker, a U.S. Army Air Corpspilot. The marriage was short-lived. In 1947, she married Lane Allen, a Hollywood agent. This marriage ended in divorce in 1949.
On June 14, 1963, White married television host and personality Allen Ludden (1917-1981). They met on his game show Password when she was a celebrity guest panelist in 1961.[13]
Allen Ludden died from stomach cancer[14][15] on June 9, 1981, in Los Angeles.[16] Allen Ludden was 63 years old. They had no children together, though she is stepmother to his three children from his first marriage. White did not remarry after Ludden's death.
White was a practicing member of the Unity Church.[17] She was also a registered Democrat.[18] She endorsed President Barack Obama in 2012 saying she "likes how he represents us".[19]
Death
White died at her home in Los Angeles, California on December 31, 2021, at the age of 99.[20] She died 17 days before her 100th birthday.[21] The cause of death was problems caused by a stroke she had six days before her death.[22]
Awards
White was added to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6747 Hollywood Boulevard alongside the star of her late husband Allen Ludden.
In 2010, the Screen Actors Guild honoured White with the Life Achievement Award. In 2010 she was chosen as the Associated Press's Entertainer of the Year.
References
- ↑Archive of American Television interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 0:0:47-50
- ↑"Golden Girl Rue McClanahan dies at 76". BBC News. June 3, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
- ↑"The Hot In Cleveland Official Site Starring Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick". Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- ↑"It's Evening in America". Vanity Fair. May 2012. Page 157.
- ↑Roxborough, Scott (March 31, 2011). "Betty White to Host 'Off Their Rockers' for NBC". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 30, 2011.
- ↑"Betty White turns 90 with star-studded celebrity bash – 01/16/2012 | Entertainment News from". Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ↑Smolenyak Smolenyak, Megan (June 16, 2010). "Betty White: White-Hot in Cleveland or Not". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑Scott, Walter (December 21, 1986). "Personality Parade". Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved January 11, 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ↑Nolasco, Stephanie (May 5, 2010). "Betty White Draws Line With Nudity & Marijuana But Hopes For Beer Pong Rematch On 'SNL'". StarPulse. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑O'Dell, C. (1997). Women pioneers in television : biographies of fifteen industry leaders / by Cary O'Dell ; with a foreword by Sally Jessy Raphael. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, c1997.
- ↑Jacobs, Matthew (January 17, 2013). "Betty White's 91st Birthday: 10 Facts About America's Golden Girl". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑Stated on Saturday Night Live, May 8, 2010
- ↑White, Betty (1995). Here We Go Again: My Life In Television 1949–1995. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
- ↑Betty White, interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio.
- ↑"Betty White: Avoiding The Plague of Women Who Lunch". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- ↑"Allen Ludden, TV Host, Is Dead; On 'College Bowl' and 'Password'". The New York Times. June 10, 1981. p. B6.
- ↑White, Betty (2011). If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) (First ed.). Putnam Adult. pp. 110–112. ISBN .
- ↑White, Betty (2011). If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) (First ed.). Putnam Adult. p. 165. ISBN .
- ↑Brett Zongker (May 12, 2012). "Betty White reveals her presidential preference – Yahoo! News". Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑"Betty White Dead at 99". . TMZ. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ↑Silverman, Stephen M. (December 31, 2021). "Betty White Dies: The Golden Girls and Mary Tyler Moore Show Star Was 99". . Archived from the original on December 31, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑Saad, Nardine (January 10, 2022). "Betty White's cause of death: Coroner blames stroke she suffered 6 days before dying". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
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