-
Betty white was born on January 17, 1922 in Oak Park Illinois.
-
Betty White started school and attended Horace Mann Elementary School.
-
When Betty White was 17 years old she and her friend sang a song from the Merry Widow They sang on an experimental LA channel.
-
When Betty White was 25 years old she married a Hollywood agent named Lane Allen in 1947. They got a divorce two years later in 1949.
-
In the 1950's Betty stared in her first major role as the lead in the show Life with Elizabeth.
-
Betty White met the love of her life Allen Ludden. They met on Password and it took two times for Betty to accept his offer. They got married in June of 1963. They had no kids together but Betty was the stepmother of Allen's three kids from a previous marriage.
-
In 1980, Betty White's husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He died a year later at age 63. At age 59 Betty White and family buried him next to his father in Graceland Cemetery. He died days before his 18th wedding anniversary and Betty never remarried.
-
In 1985 Betty White got her signature role as Rose Nylund on the show The Golden Girls. The show was a huge hit and aired until 1922 when Arthur decided to leave the show. They tried to do a play off series called The Golden Palace, but it just was not the same and only lasted for a season.
-
In 2012 at the age of 90, Betty White won her first ever Grammy Award in a word recording for her bestselling book If You Ask Me.
