{"id":683,"date":"2021-12-31T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2022-01-01T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T22:28:29","slug":"betty-white-december-31-2021-positivity-longevity-screen-legend-national-treasure-americas-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/betty-white-december-31-2021-positivity-longevity-screen-legend-national-treasure-americas-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty White, 99, “radiated joy and gratitude”, “a true legend on and off the screen”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\nBetty White found gold on the small screen, smiling all the way. Along with upending expectations.<\/a>
\nBetty White: Now that was a career. And that was a pro, adored by millions who appreciated comic skill and the ability to get the last laugh.

\n\nThe Oak Park native, who died Dec. 31 just weeks before her 100th birthday, was the daughter of a homemaker and a lighting company executive. She became a Californian when she was just a year old, after the family\u2019s move to Alhambra, California, a few miles from downtown Los Angeles. She worked in radio \u2014 first in 1930, at age eight! \u2014 and would seek out radio gigs as she grew older, having already been dismissed as \u201cunphotogenic\u201d by Hollywood casting agents.

\n\nOver the next half century and more, White avenged that idiotic mischaracterization by wielding one of the greatest, most recognized smiles in American television. She did so across a remarkable spectrum of vivacious sincerity and subtly wicked parody, supported by timing and presence and craft that came together as a natural force as it has for precious few others.

\n\nWe know her for so much long-running situation comedy: As Rose Nylund, of St. Olaf, Minnesota, on \u201cThe Golden Girls\u201d; as Elka Ostrosky on \u201cHot in Cleveland\u201d; and as Sue Ann Nivens, star of \u201cThe Happy Homemaker\u201d on \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show.\u201d

\n\nScreening event for Betty White’s 100th birthday will go on<\/a>
\nBetty White was weeks away from her 100th birthday and planned a big celebration. White, who died Friday, would have turned 100 on Jan. 17. A movie event planned prior to her death to mark the occasion will go on as planned, according to producers of the film “Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration.”

\n\n“Our hearts mourn today with the passing of Betty White. During the many years we worked with her, we developed a great love and admiration for Betty as a person, and as an accomplished entertainer,” film producers Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein said in a statement to CNN. “We are thankful for the many decades of delight she brought to everyone. Betty always said she was the ‘luckiest broad on two feet’ to have had a career as long as she did. And honestly, we were the lucky ones to have had her for so long.”

\n\n“We will go forward with our plans to show the film on January 17 in hopes our film will provide a way for all who loved her to celebrate her life\u2014and experience what made her such a national treasure,” Boettcher and Trinklein said.

\n\nMary Steenburgen Remembers Betty White After Her Death: She ‘Radiated Joy and Gratitude’<\/a>
\n“Betty White radiated joy and gratitude and was enthusiastically a lover of animals, laughter, life and people. In that order,” Steenburgen says. “I used to stare at her in the mornings in makeup trailer when she wasn’t looking. Trying to breathe in her magic. I’m doing that today.”

\n\nUS Army pays tribute to Betty White’s World War II volunteer service: ‘A true legend on and off the screen’<\/a>
\nWhile millions of fans mourn the beloved television star Betty White, who passed away on Friday at the age of 99, the US Army paid tribute to the comedian for one of her earliest and most significant roles \u2014 as a volunteer during World War II.

\n\nWhite found work modeling in the late 1930s, but put her larger aspirations on hold during World War II in order to work with the American Women’s Voluntary Services (AWVS) in 1941. The AWVS sent female volunteers to take on roles including firefighting, ambulance and truck driving, and aerial photography.

\n\nDuring an interview with Cleveland magazine in 2010, White said that her assignment consisted of driving a PX truck of supplies to barracks in the Hollywood Hills \u2014 while attending dances for departing troops at night.

\n\nBetty White knew the secret to longevity: Make \u2018em laugh.<\/a>
\n\u201cI\u2019m so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age,\u201d the \u201cHot in Cleveland\u201d star added. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing.\u201d

\n\nWhite also credited being \u201cborn a cockeyed optimist\u201d as her secret to longevity, noting she \u201cgot it from [her] mom.\u201d \u201cI always find the positive,\u201d she said in the interview that was part of her 100th birthday celebration.

\n\nHer positivity was exactly what her celebrity pals thought blessed the beloved star with a long and fruitful life. Having over 120 acting credits to her name, White was a showbiz whiz who knew just how to crack a joke. \u201cIt\u2019s not like she\u2019s just a bubbly, joyful person. She wakes up every day and chooses to be that way,\u201d Ted Danson, 68, said. \u201cI think she leads a very purposeful life.\u201d

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