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Dec 31, 2021 · Dick Barker was a fighter pilot who met White during World War II and married her in 1945. They divorced the same year and White left him for Hollywood, where she pursued a successful career.
Jan 17, 2022 · Dick Barker. While a volunteer with the American Women’s Voluntary Services, Betty met her first husband Dick Barker, a United States Air Force pilot, at a dance, according to her biography...
While volunteering with the American Women's Voluntary Services, White met Air Force P-38 pilot Dick Barker. After the war, they were married in 1945 and moved to Belle Center, Ohio, where Barker owned a chicken farm; he wanted to embrace a simpler life, but White did not enjoy doing so. They returned to Los Angeles and divorced within a year.
- Her name was 'Betty' White, not 'Elizabeth' White. Betty White was born Betty Marion White in Illinois on 17 January 1922, but her parents named her Betty because they didn’t like any of the other nicknames derived from Elizabeth.
- Betty originally wanted to be an opera singer. While discussing her role in the 2021 animated film The Lorax, which had the actress sing a few bars, Betty revealed she studied with the best and had big dreams about being an opera singer from the age of 14 and studied with the best.
- She’s a Guinness world record holder. In 2014 Betty was awarded the title for Longest TV Career for a Female Entertainer for her more than 70 years in showbiz.
- Her first TV appearance is lost to history. Betty made her screen debut in 1939 but can't remember the name of the show! "I danced on an experimental TV show, the first on the west coast, in downtown Los Angeles," she said in 2014.
Feb 26, 2020 · Betty White married Dick Barker, an army pilot and chicken farmer, in 1945, but they divorced after the war. Learn more about her other two husbands and her true love, Alan Ludden.
Dec 31, 2021 · Betty White, the legendary actress and animal activist, passed away at 99. She was married to Dick Barker, a pilot, for eight months in 1945 before divorcing.
Dec 31, 2021 · Her career stalled after her 1945 marriage to Dick Barker, a World War II pilot who took her back to his family’s chicken farm in Ohio. She later called the experience “a nightmare.”
