Betty White, beloved film and television star, has died at 99
An only child, White moved to California before she was 2 years old. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1939 and appeared on an experimental TV show in Los Angeles that same year. After volunteering to support the effort during World War II, White wanted to break into show business and did some theater and radio work.
After getting a few small TV jobs, White was approached by Los Angeles disc jockey Al Jarvis to appear on his TV show. The show aired live for five and a half hours a day, six days a week and required them to do a lot of ad libbing. She stayed on the show for nearly four years. “It was like going to television college,”of the experience, which, in 1951, garnered her her first Emmy nomination in the newly created best actress category.
White took the occasional guest role on TV series in the ‘60s before she landed the career-changing part as Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” First appearing on the landmark comedy’s fourth season in 1973, White played a co-worker of Moore’s Mary Richards, earning a pair of Emmy Awards. The cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in 1975: Betty White, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, Gavin McLeod, Mary Tyler Moore and Ed Asner.Her success on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” led to her own short-lived self-titled sitcom, her third “Betty White Show” bearing her name.
White’s career-defining role, though, would come in 1985 when she joined Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty to make up a quartet of senior citizens living together in Miami on the smash NBC comedy “The Golden Girls.”Her portrayal of naïve Rose Nylund resonated with viewers and critics alike. The show was a ratings winner, and White snagged the Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series in 1986. She would garner another six nominations for the role.
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