Actor Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl and America’s Sweetheart, has died, according to multiple reports. She was 99 years old.
She launched her TV career in daytime talk shows when the medium was still in its infancy and endured well into the age of cable and streaming.
A month later, cable's TV Land premiered "Hot In Cleveland," the network's first original scripted series, which starred Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick as three past-their-prime show-biz veterans who move to Cleveland to escape the youth obsession of Hollywood. They move into a home being looked after by an elderly Polish widow — a character, played by White, who was meant to appear only in the pilot episode.
"Don't try to be young," she told The AP. "Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them." "While she's icky-sweet on her cooking show, Sue is really a piranha type," White once said. The role brought her two Emmys as supporting actress in a comedy series.
"Just Men" brought her a daytime Emmy, while she won a fourth prime time Emmy in 1996 for a guest shot on "The John Larroquette Show." White proved to be a natural for the new medium. She was bright, pretty and likable, with a dimpled, eye-crinkling smile. A 1951 Los Angeles Times headline said: "Betty White Hailed as TV's Busiest Gal."
That was in 1961, and the next year, while touring in summer theater during television's off season, she starred with Ludden — by then a widower with three children — in the comedy "Critic's Choice."
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