Betty White: A Celebration
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Aug 21, 2018 · Betty White: First Lady of Television: Directed by Steve Boettcher. With Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Sandra Bullock, Tim Conway. A look at Betty White's life and career features behind-the-scenes clips of her work on television and comments from her friends and co-stars.
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- Steve Boettcher
- 2018-08-21
Mar 27, 2023 · Elisa Lichtenbaum | March 27, 2023. Betty White: First Lady of Television gets encore broadcast, Thursday, June 29 at 10 p.m. on THIRTEEN. Updated June 26, 2023. To some fans, Betty...
Mar 2, 2022 · Betty White: First Lady of Television on March 11. Published on March 2, 2022. Arts. We lost one of our most beloved stars on December 31, 2021. This documentary, originally broadcast in 2018, celebrates Betty White’s life and career and features a treasure trove of video clips of her iconic characters from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The ...
Jun 28, 2018 · ARLINGTON, VA; JUNE 28, 2018 – Today PBS announced BETTY WHITE: FIRST LADY OF TELEVISION will premiere this summer on Tuesday, August 21 (Times Vary by Location, Check Local Listings).
- She's The 'First Lady' in More Ways Than One
- She Showed Her Comedic Genius and A Bawdy Side on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'
- She Showed Her Range on 'The Golden Girls,' Playing Against The Sue Ann Type
- She's Deeply Devoted to Animals
The title fits as an honorific, but literally, too. Over her eight-decade career, White was there for the infancy of television. Her first performance came in 1939 on an experimental broadcast, followed by a co-hosting gig on "Hollywood on Television" in the 1940s and a sitcom, "Life With Elizabeth," which she starred in and produced in the early 1...
Many actors might have been intimidated about succeeding Valerie Harper, whose wisecracking, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern was the best friend of Moore’s Mary Richards. But White, who guest-starred before taking a full-time role in 1974, created her own icon in Sue Ann Nivens, winning two Emmys as the character whose cheerful Happy Homemaker v...
Rose Nylund was the opposite of Sue Ann. Of all the "Girls" characters, worldly Blanche (played delightfully by Rue McClanahan) was the closest to White's "Mary Tyler Moore" character, but she counterintuitively chose sweet, naïve Rose, winning an Emmy during the run of the much-loved comedy (1985 to 1992).
White long has had a love affair with animals, working as an advocate and donating money to animal-related causes. In "First Lady," she’s shown sitting next to a huge, very tame grizzly bear. “I’m the luckiest old broad on two feet,” she says, feeding marshmallows to her giant companion. Viewers who have enjoyed White’s career feel pretty lucky, to...
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Aug 16, 2018 · Become a KPBS sponsor. Betty White First Lady of Television Promo. Watch on. Lauded for her roles as the bawdy Sue Ann on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, the innocent Rose on THE GOLDEN...
Aug 21, 2018 · 'Betty White: First Lady of Television' is a charming PBS retrospective on the career of television's reigning grande dame. By Robyn Bahr. August 21, 2018 9:04am. When I was growing up,...
