Betty White graces the cover of Life Magazine in 1957.
Who is that regal lady, the queen? Well, it’s the queen of TV comedy — Betty White, an actress whose career on the tube spans seven decades. Betty White has done so much TV that she has had her own show with the same title — The Betty White Show — three times (1954; 1958, and 1977-78). Betty White is so good at TV comedy that she won Emmy Awards in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and 2010. Betty White was such a good celebrity game-show contestant that NBC gave her her own game show to host (Just Men!, 1983) and she won an Emmy for it. Betty White was so good at playing Rose Nylund on all 180 episodes of The Golden Girls that two different networks pulled her character into three spinoff shows (Empty Nest, Nurses, and The Golden Palace). Betty White isn’t just the queen of TV comedy — she’s the Chuck Norris of TV comedy.
