
To make extra money, her father built crystal radios and sold them wherever he could. White's family moved to Alhambra, California in 1923 when she was a little over a year old, and later to Los Angeles during the Great Depression. Her paternal grandfather was Danish and her maternal grandfather was Greek, with her other roots being English and Welsh (both of her grandmothers were Canadians with roots in Ontario). She was the only child of Christine Tess ( née Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive from Michigan. She stated that Betty was her legal name and not a shortened version of Elizabeth.
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2.3 1960s: First Lady of Gameshows, Password and Advise & Consent.2.2 1952–1959: The Betty White Show and Date with the Angels.

2.1 1949–1953: Radio work, early television and Bandy Productions.She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was a 1995 Television Hall of Fame inductee. White received eight Emmy Awards in various categories, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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White earned a Guinness World Record for "Longest TV career by an entertainer (female)" in 2014 and in 2018 for her lengthy work in radio, television, and film. She gained renewed popularity after her appearance in the 2009 romantic comedy film The Proposal (2009), and was subsequently the subject of a successful Facebook-based campaign to host Saturday Night Live in 2010, garnering her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Her biggest roles include Sue Ann Nivens on the CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973–1977), Rose Nylund on the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–1992), and Elka Ostrovsky on the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland (2010–2015).

She was also known for her appearances on The Bold and the Beautiful, Boston Legal, and The Carol Burnett Show. Dubbed "the first lady of game shows", White became the first woman to receive the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host for the show Just Men! in 1983.

Īfter making the transition to television from radio, White became a staple panelist of American game shows, including Password, Match Game, Tattletales, To Tell the Truth, The Hollywood Squares, and The $25,000 Pyramid.

White is often referred to as the "First Lady of Television", a title used for a 2018 documentary detailing her life and career. She was the first woman to produce a sitcom ( Life with Elizabeth) in the United States, which contributed to her being named honorary Mayor of Hollywood in 1955. A pioneer of early television, with a television career spanning more than seven decades, White was noted for her vast work in the entertainment industry and being one of the first women to work both in front of and behind the camera. Betty Marion White (January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian.
