American viewers (and not only) love Betty White with a sincere and passionate love for her extraordinary personal charm and unparalleled sense of humor, which can undoubtedly be her secret to longevity. There is a specific curiosity about her on the Internet for a reason: long ago someone noticed that this charismatic actress is older than sliced bread – she was born in 1922, and factory-sliced loaves began to be sold in the USA only in 1928.
Betty White turns 100 and everyone is invited to her birthday
Betty White was born exactly on January 17, 1922, and exactly one hundred years later, the jubilee film “Betty White: 100 Years Young – A Birthday Celebration” will be released in cinemas. Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein made it and show her everyday life in it. They traveled to various film sets with her, watched how she got along with her co-workers, what she does for entertainment, and how she uses her popularity to fight for animal rights. And they were also with a camera at one of her birthday parties.
In the production we will see not only the backstage of Betty’s performance “Saturday Night Life “, because there is a whole galaxy of stars telling about what they love it for. Starring, among others, Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Leno , Carol Burnett, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Valerie Bertinelli, James Corden, Wendy Malick, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
On this occasion, you will also be able to see fragments of her most iconic appearances in various productions: excerpts from the cult sitcom “Golden Girls”, her performance of Sue Ann from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the famous Snickers commercial displayed during the American Super Bowl – The event is famous for having the most expensive advertising block of the year and brands have been outdoing each other for years to show the most creative and memorable promotional films there.
Betty White has already made a mark in the history of American show business for being the first woman to produce a nationwide entertainment program and the fact that she was the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy. She took her first steps in the industry as an eight-year-old – in 1930 she appeared on the radio program “Empire Builders”. She began her television career in 1939, a few months after graduating from high school. She worked as a model, and after the outbreak of World War II, she resigned from work to be a volunteer at American Women’s Voluntary Services. military supplies.
After the war, it was difficult for her to find a job on television – she was rejected because she was considered “non-photogenic”. At that time, she also focused on working on the radio, where appearance did not matter: reading commercials, reading dialogues or imitating the sounds of crowds. At one stage, she already hosted her own radio program “The Betty White Show”, and from 1949 she also began co-hosting the television show “Hollywood on Television”.
As early as 1952, she starred in the comedy series “Life with Elizabeth”, for which she won her Emmy Award in 1952, and two years later she produced her talk show “The Betty White Show” for NBC. In later years, she successfully appeared in subsequent entertainment programs, at some point in her career she was called the “First Lady of Game Tournaments”. In 1983, she became the first woman to be awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host. In the 1980s, her adventure with the popular sitcom “Golden Girls” began (she also won an Emmy for the role of Rose, this time for the best comedy actress). Let’s also add that Betty White also appeared in the famous “Fashion for Success” – but only in 2006.
Source: Gazeta
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