Obit: Betty White (1922-2021)

Subject: Obit: Betty White, almost 100!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 02:59 PM

What a wit, what an intellect, and great pipes, too. Google Betty White singing, too many clips.

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:18 PM

SOB! 2021 is officially the Worst. Year. Ever.

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:25 PM

I was hoping she would make it to 100- not so much for her sake as for ours. She had become a beloved icon. Long may her memory live on!

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 07:48 PM

I liked Almost 100 a LOT better as a thread title, mods! But thank you for working New Year's Eve!

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 05:51 AM

Did she ever dance with Fed Astaire?

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 01:33 PM

Look up her IMDb account. They overlapped lifetimes, and I don't think of her as a singer/dancer, but one of the retrospective reels running on IMDb shows her in musical numbers.

As a kid I watched some of the TV gameshows with my family and Password was a favorite, kind of an egghead game. She was good, and I was pleased when she married the host Allen Ludden, a widower with three children. I didn't realize until reading her obituary she had been married before (both brief in duration.) On her IMDb bio under children it says "None" then lists the three Ludden children. He was buried in Wisconsin, we'll have to see where Betty is buried, how all of that is sorted out.

Betty White on IMDb.

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 01:40 PM

I was reading that Bio on IMDb - it says that "Skipped college to study classical vocal training under opera singer Felix Hughes, uncle of Howard Hughes."

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 03:49 PM

She did more for 'womens' lib' through her various works than anyone else. That's what I remember and thank her for. RIP... and... thanks.

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White, 1922-2021
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 03:51 PM

Well, I think she's almost tied with Mary Tyler Moore.

Subject: RE: Obit: Betty White (1922-2021)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 06:39 PM

Lake Placid. Just saying.