All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
When Betty was on Mama's Family she played Rue's niece. Then on Golden Girls she played Rue's roommate.
Betty White starred in The Golden Girls as Rose Nylund from 1985-1992. She also starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show for four out of its seven seasons from (1973-1977)
Betty ended up getting her role of "Sue Ann Nivens" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show because she and husband were friends with Moore and her then-husband, Grant Tinker.
When Betty married Allen Ludden in 1963, she became the stepmother of 4 children.
Betty has served on the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association Board since 1974.
Betty once hosted her own talk show The Betty White Show in 1954.
Betty played Vicki Lawrence's daughter on Mama's Family even though she is 27 years older than Lawrence.
Betty has been acting on television for over 50 years.
In 1952, Betty won her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on Life with Elizabeth.
Betty is of German and Greek ancestry.
Betty is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California.
Betty and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was only two years old.
Betty was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995.
Per her autobiography, White was named "Betty" at birth not "Elizabeth" because her parents did not want her to be saddled with any of the nicknames and derivatives of Elizabeth -- i.e. Beth, Liza, Ellie, etc.
James L. Brooks offered her the role of Helen Hunt's mother in As Good as It Gets (1997). She turned it down because she objected to the treatment of the dog in the film.
Betty filmed a Pilot for CBS called "Stephanie" with Stephanie Faracy in 1981.
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