BREAKING: Betty White, trailblazing TV star and cultural icon, dead at 99: report
Betty White, the trailblazing television star whose more than eight-decade career saw her go from unforgettable roles on “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to becoming a cultural icon in her 80s and 90s, has died less than three weeks before her 100th birthday.
“Those two shows are her great legacy … because people will continue to watch that stuff. They’ve really got classic status.” The appearance, at age 17, came months before the medium was introduced to the masses at the New York World’s Fair. She continued her pioneering role both in front and behind the camera with the short-lived NBC talk show “The Betty White Show” in 1954.
In 1973, the already popular “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was looking to cast the character of Sue Ann Nivens, described in the script as an “an icky-sweet Betty White type” — and ended up hiring the real thing.
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