Shame. What a lady, what a life.
Damn, I’d hoped she’d enjoy a few more healthy happy years
I think it’d be more like this:
Fours: Sondheim.
RIP, beloved Betty.
What a wonderfully funny, bawdy and lively person she was! I’ve had a crush on her since as long as I can remember. She certainly lived life on her own terms and entertained us all.
She had a very good run. R.I.P., golden girl.
I totally read this with Rose Nyland’s voice in my head. And it put a big smile on my face. Thanks for that.
I’ve seen it said that Betty White had so much longevity that she was in a show that was about old people that went off the air 3 decades ago!
And she was even older than sliced bread!
the episode The Lars Affair (Season 4, episode 1) of thr Mary Tyler Moore Show is one of the funniest things ever on American TV. White and Leachman are amazing I. Their scenes together.
Litigious and bitter? No, that’s two words.
Me, too - I was really hoping she’d have some time in the triple digits.
She was a an amazing woman. RIP Betty.
I will miss her.
LOL, you’re right. She was fabulous!
I’m glad she went quickly and at home. I was concerned she’d get sick and linger in a Nursing Home.
Betty voiced a character in Toy Story 4 in 2019. She had a very successful and long career. I watched a lot of her work in various sitcoms. Mary Tyler Moore and Golden Girls were my favorites. Her dramatic work in Boston Legal was quite impressive.
RIP Betty and thank you for the many years of entertainment.
A few scenes of Betty’s work…
This.
I love to think about the lives of people who live to be 100 or very close.
She was 23 when WW2 was ending.
She was 41 when John Kennedy died.
She was 59 when Reagan was shot.
And she still had 40(almost) years left to live!
What a lady!
I just read this book.
It’s a terrible title that doesn’t convey the contents at all, but Women in Early Television Who Got Chewed Up and Spit Out Just Like Men When They Lost Ratings wouldn’t sell.
Anyway, there’s a huge amount of Betty’s early television days in Los Angeles from the very beginning though her days as a local star and then a national star. And a lot on how she decided to focus on her career instead of marriage because her career was more important to her. Almost all that early work is lost or only in specialty collections, but the author seems to have viewed everything that still exists. The excitement of inventing a new medium comes through, though I’d only recommend it to confirmed tv buffs.
With the passing of Ed Asner, Gavin McLeod, and Cloris Leachman earlier this year we’ve lost everybody from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
A person who can bring together so many people from so many diverse walks of life in Universal sorrow at her passing had to be a quality human being. Rest in peace Betty White. You were one in a million
She was the oldest of the Golden Girls cast (a few months older than Bea Arthur), and, IIRC, second only to Ed Asner on Mary Tyler Moore, and she was the last to go from both.
That’s impressive.
RIP, Betty.