Geritol betty white biography

31, 2021, eighteen days shy of her hundredth birthday, made her first entrance almost a century ago, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison were alive.
She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and became a Californian when she was just a year old, after the family's move to Alhambra, California, a few miles from.
The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk.

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Betty 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.

The actor who died Dec. 31 just weeks before her 100th birthday was the daughter of a homemaker and a lighting company executive. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and became a Californian when she was just a year old, after the family’s move to Alhambra, California, a few miles from downtown Los Angeles. She worked in radio — first in 1930, at age 8! — and would seek out radio gigs as she grew older, having already been dismissed as “unphotogenic” by Hollywood casting agents.

Over 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.

We know her for so much long-running situation comedy: As Rose Nylund, of St. Olaf, Minnesota, on “

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Betty White turned 96 last January, and this week, PBS is honoring her with an hour-long special about her life and career that took 10 years to put together.

Mary Tyler Moore, with whom White worked in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” is one of the interview subjects in the show, and she died in January 2017.

Jack Narz, veteran TV quiz show personality, may have been one of the first subjects to be interviewed for this show. He died in October 2008.

Bob Stewart, the man credited with creating “Password” -- the classic game show hosted by White’s husband, Allen Ludden, on which White frequently appeared -- is also seen in this tribute special, titled “Betty White: First Lady of Television.” Stewart died in 2012.

Other co-stars from “Mary Tyler Moore” seen in the special include Valerie Harper, Georgia Engel and Gavin MacLeod -- all very much alive.

Sadly, none of White’s three co-stars from “The Golden Girls” -- Bea

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The Original Amateur Hour

American radio series that later moved to television

The Original Amateur Hour is an American radio and television program. The show was a continuation of Major Bowes Amateur Hour, which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. Major Edward Bowes, the originator of the program and its master of ceremonies, left the show in 1945 and died the following year. He was ultimately succeeded by Ted Mack, when the show was brought into television in 1948.^[1]

The show is a progenitor of later, similar programs such as Star Search, American Idol and America's Got Talent.

Format and notable contestants

The format was almost always the same. At the beginning of the show, the talent's order of appearance was determined by spinning a wheel. After it was announced how many episodes the current one marked (the final broadcast on CBS being the 1,651st), the wheel was spun. As the wheel spun, the words "Round and round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows" were always intoned. (From the late 1950s forward, the wheel was gone: