Betty White

She is the only living Golden Girl who proved her versatility as a star
in film, television, music and became a sensation for her television
roles. She was born as Betty Marion White Ludden on 17th January
1922 in Oak Park, Illinois to her mother Tess Curtis, a homemaker and
her father Horace Lawrence White, a traveling salesman and electrical
engineer. When she was only two years old, her family relocated to Los
Angeles, California during the Great Depression. There she admitted
to Horace Mann School Beverly Hills and Beverly Hills High School. This
talented character wanted to become a writer. Within three months
after high school she started her television career by singing a song
with her classmates from The Merry Widow on an experimental Los
Angeles channel. From the 1940’s she was front and center at the birth
of live television by appearing on

shows such as Blondie, The Great Gildersleeve and "This Is Your FBI"
and as a sitcom player and as an irreverent wit on scores of panel game
shows.

Comic actress Betty White was a strong television personality as Sue
Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The
Golden Girls. With a career spanning over seven decades. She was one
of the medium's earliest female producers by her own popular radio
show, Betty White Show.

She also focused on modeling and professional acting and was
employed at the Bliss Hayden Little Theatre. But after World War II
her career turned in a different way. It led her to join the American
Women's Voluntary Services.

She firstly married to Dick Barker, a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot the
second to Lane Allen, a Hollywood agent but did not last long and
ended in divorce. On June 14, 1963, White married television host and

personality Allen Ludden, who died from bladder cancer on June 9,
1981, in Los Angeles. The couples were not blessed with any children.

Her performance:-

People will never forget her performance in Life with Elizabeth, Date
with the Angels, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Betty White Show,
The Golden Girls, and The Golden Palace.

Her achievements

She was honored with 8 Emmy Awards,1 Golden Apple Award, 4
American Comedy Awards, 2 Viewers for Quality Television, 3 TV Land
Awards, 1 Disney Legends, 1 Teen Choice Award, 1 Grammy Awards, 2
Screen Actors Guild

Her inspiration

Vanity Fair, "Charles Darwin" are her real life inspiration.

Being a Democrat she has endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai

Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton and the

supporter of Barack Obama.

She is also famous for her humanitarian causes. Being a pet enthusiast
and animal health advocate , she works with a number of animal
organizations, including the Los Angeles Zoo Commission, the Morris

Animal Foundation, and Actors & Others for Animals. White donated
nearly $100,000 to the Zoo in the month of April 2008 alone. Betty
White served as a presenter at the 2011 American Humane Association
Hero Dog Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 1,
2011 in Los Angeles.