I can remember getting home from school in the early 1950's finding my mother watching a young Betty White in "Life With Elizabeth" on television. Over the years we have seen her in the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Golden Girls," and numerous TV guest appearances as well as a supporting actress in many movies. It is nice to see Hollywood honor Miss White with a lifetime achievement award.
Just a week after her 88th birthday, Betty earns lifetime achievement award.'Golden Girl' Betty White Shines
"Queen of the Hop she was at the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Betty White rewarded the crowd at the Shrine Auditorium with the best acceptance speech when she was honored with their Lifetime Achievement Award. She should give lessons.
"Honored with standing ovations for her six-decade career, Queen Betty, who's of German and Greek ancestry and graduated from Beverly Hills High, sighed that with so much attention she "may not be fit to live with these next few years." Funny and wickedly clever, describing herself as an "old broad," she made no bones about being 88 years old. Presenter Sandra Bullock zinged that she finds Betty "annoying, having appeared in four TV series." Betty didn't miss a beat, firing back, "Isn't it beautiful how far a plain girl as she is can go?" Betty then recalled that she began her acting career by singing in what then was an experiment: "Television."
"Backstage, Betty praised Sandra for "being gorgeous and talented and the most down-to-earth human being … the epitome of what a movie star should be."
"But Betty didn't deny that she's star struck, never having met one of her idols, Robert Redford.
"Acknowledging her age, she reminded that she celebrated her 88th a week before the awards, and added that she has "a lot of stuff to do," championing animal health advocacy and working with the Los Angeles Zoo Association."
Apparently, Betty White isn't ready to call it quits yet. According to The Internet Movie Database, she is currently in pre-production for a 2010 TV series, "Hot In Cleveland."
Can you name her late husband?
Posted by: Bob Stockton | 02/02/2010 at 10:29 AM
It was Allen Ludden.
I have to admit that I had to look it up. I could picture him in my mind, and I remembered he was a game-show host. However, I had forgotten that the game show was "Password."
Posted by: Allen Forrest | 02/02/2010 at 10:36 AM
Excellent!
Posted by: Bob Stockton | 02/02/2010 at 11:38 AM
The Game Show Network has run some of the Password classics from the 70s or 80s.
Betty White is something else. She invests a lot of nerve in characters in the movie "Lake Placid," and the series "Boston Legal."
Posted by: Brian Patrick O'Malley | 02/02/2010 at 05:43 PM
I've always enjoyed her work. I will have to check out The Game Show Network again.
Posted by: Allen Forrest | 02/03/2010 at 06:38 AM