Some people just have an outsized impact on everything they touch. With Betty White, really you can just make a list.
123 acting credits between 1945 and 2019. Yes, she was working at 97, albeit on small projects. This doesn't include being on TV in...1939.
Game show host and celebrity panelist. One of her Emmys was for hosting Just Men! This was the first game show Emmy won by a woman.
Animal advocate, including sponsoring a therapy horse who "happened" to be a palomino mare. There's apparently a plaque outside the gorilla house at the LA Zoo.
She did theatre and radio.
She was the first producer to hire a Black performer in American variety television, tap dancer Arthur Duncan.
Only woman to win an Emmy in all comedic categories.
She wrote several books...two of which were turned into audiobooks. Naturally, she narrated them herself...so well she picked up a Grammy.
But most important of all? Everyone loved her.
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