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Betty White is an Emmy-award winning television and film actress born on January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois. A graduate of Beverly Hills High School in California, she first worked as glamour model before continuing on to a career in television. Betty White has worked on numerous TV shows, among them The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Palace, That 70s Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Boston Legal, and Family Guy. She’s ... appeared in the movies Advise and Consent, Hard Rain, Lake Placid, The Story of Us, and Bringing Down the House.
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The Betty White Show was a sitcom which ran on CBS during the 1977-78 season. Betty White starred as Joyce Whitman, a middle-aged actress, who was starring as a female detective in a fictitious police drama, Undercover Woman (ostensibly based on Angie Dickinson's Police Woman). Much of the humor stemmed from the fact that the show's producer was Whitman's ex-husband, John Whitman (played by John Hillerman), as well as the fact that White and her sidekick on Undercover Woman, a beautiful and much younger actress (played by Caren Kaye), did not like one another and missed no opportunity to trade insults. Also appearing was White's former Mary Tyler Moore Show costar, Georgia Engel.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Betty White has a movie coming out next year. She just did a guest spot on a hit TV show. Recently, she spent three weeks on a daytime soap opera.
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Actress Betty White got her start in local Los Angeles television as the "telephone girl" for video emcee Al Jarvis. By early 1950 she was one of the stars of the daily, five-hour series Hollywood on Television. One of the highlights of this program was a husband and wife sketch titled "Life With Elizabeth," which when committed to film and syndicated nationally in 1953 became White's first starring TV sitcom. She went on to headline her own network variety series in 1954, then co-starred with Bill Williams in the weekly TV domestic comedy Date With the Angels (1957), which without Williams was retitled The Betty White Show in early 1958. For the next 15 years she made guest appearances on various variety and quiz show efforts, and toured the straw-hat theatrical circuit in such plays as Critics Choice and Who Was That Lady, often appearing opposite her husband, TV personality Allen Ludden. Two years after hosting the 1971 syndicated informational series The Pet Set, she guest-starred as libidinous "Happy Homemaker" Sue Ann Nivens on the fourth season opener of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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Betty White's family moved to Los Angeles when she was about 18 months old, and she grew up there. She began her career in show biz as 'girl Friday' for the almost legendary Al Jarvis on Los Angeles' KLAC in 1949. When Jarvis quit the station in 1952, she took over as host. That same year, she formed a production company; and created the sitcom Life With Elizabeth, starring White and Del Moore, and making White one of the first female TV producers. She had several more sitcoms, and was one of the first Hollywood starlets to earn the unofficial title "America's Sweetheart", but through the '50s and '60s she was more commonly seen on game shows.
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Aug. 27, 2002 – Betty White, multi-Emmy winning actress, joined the nation's Chief Postal Inspector yesterday to warn senior citizens, their families, and their caregivers that older Americans are increasingly becoming the targets of con artists. She will ... participate in a satellite media tour to help draw attention to this campaign.
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