Celebrity Biographies
Betty White
She is especially remembered for her role as Rose the ingénue in The Golden Girls . But Betty White has quite an extensive career and she is not only an actress, but she has also succeeded as a writer and television presenter. The actress has passed away when she barely had two weeks left before she turned 100 years old.
Born in Oak Park (Illinois), on January 17, 1922, Betty Marion White is the daughter of Tess, a housewife, and Horace, an electrical engineer. After graduating from high school, she found a job as a model. She spent a long time in this occupation until in her mid-40’s she discovered that she had a great talent for radio. She started out as a guest on various shows, until she ended up hosting her own show, entitled “The Betty White Show.”
From radio, White jumped to television, where she found great popularity playing the lead on the sitcom Life with Elizabeth . She made her film debut at the hands of the great Otto Preminger , playing a senator in Tempest over Washington . However, she would not return to the big screen until Hard Rain , from 1998, as she specialized entirely in television, where she swept series like The Girl on TV , for which she was recruited by the protagonist, Mary Tyler . Moore, who suggested the actress for the role of the endearing Sue, in a production meeting. “We need someone sickeningly cute like Betty White for that role,” Moore explained. She also made it big with several episodes of Holidays at Sea and in the series Mama’s Family .
Together with another interpreter of the latter, Rue McClanahan , she would shoot her most popular series, The Golden Girls , the story of four mature women who shared a house in Miami, who, thanks to her ingenious scripts and fresh performances, became everything. a milestone of television. She was first offered to play Blanche, but ultimately she stuck as Rose. Susan Harris , creator of the series, specified that she did not have to appear silly, but that Rose had to be “good-natured, a person who always believed that she was the first explanation of anything”. With these parameters, she immortalized a character that became very popular on a planetary level.
The series lasted 7 years, between 1985 and 1992, and White reprized as Rose, in Hotel de Oro , a spin-off that only lasted one season. Since then, White has become a special guest on television series, such as Ally McBeal , Those Marvelous 70s , or Malcolm , and has made a film, such as The Story of Ours , or The Proposal , where she made a funny composition of Ryan ‘s character’s grandmother. Reynolds .
Divorced from Frederick Barker, she was joined by actor Lane Allan ( Mac Arthur the Rogue General ) and later Allen Ludden , host of the “Password” quiz show, where she had been a regular contestant, as a celebrity guest. White is also the author of several books, about her film career and her passion for animals.