Autor: Betty White

Betty White”s first appearance on television was in 1939 when she and a friend sang songs from „The Merry Widow” on an experimental TV station in Los Angeles. Since that time she has enjoyed a brilliant career in the medium, starring in „Hollywood on Television”, „The Betty White Show” (3 different series under that name!), „The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, „The Golden Girls”, „Boston Legal”, „Hot in Cleveland” amd „Betty White”s Off Their Rockers”. She regularly appeared on „Password” (the show hosted by her beloved husband, Allen Ludden) and „The Match Game”. She also hosted NBC”s coverage of The Rose Bowl Parade for nineteen years, but after her explosive success on CBS”s „Mary Tyler Moore Show”, NBC fired her and CBS signed her to host The Macy”s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She has made countless guest appearances on other TV series („The Simpsons, ” „Ugly Betty”, „My Name is Earl”, „Kathy Griffin”) and has hosted „Saturday Night Live”. She has won Emmys, Golden Globes, American Comedy Awards—even a Grammy!—and lifetime achievement awards from The Screen Actors Guild, Television Critics Association and Disney Legends. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Betty has worked tirelessly for the appreciation of animals and their ethical treament. (Smokey the Bear fulfilled her lifelong dream by making her an honorary forest ranger—-something women simply weren”t allowed to be in her day).But it may Betty”s career as a writer that she is most proud and she is the author of: BETTY WHITE IN PERSON, HERE WE GO AGAIN: MY LIFE IN TELEVISION; BETTY AND FRIENDS: MY LIFE AT THE ZOO; IF YOU ASK ME (AND OF COURSE YOU WON”T); and, with Tom Sullivan, THE LEADING LADY: DINAH”S STORY; and ALIVE DAY: A STORY OF LOVE AND LOYALTY. She lives in Southern California.