Famous American actress Betty White dies at 99
The Hindu
Betty White launched her TV career in daytime talk shows when the medium was still in its infancy and endured well into the age of cable and streaming.
Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99.
She launched her TV career in daytime talk shows when the medium was still in its infancy and endured well into the age of cable and streaming. Her combination of sweetness and edginess gave life to a roster of quirky characters in shows from the sitcom “Life With Elizabeth” in the early 1950s to oddball Rose Nylund in “The Golden Girls” in the '80s to “Boston Legal,” which ran from 2004 to 2008.
But it was in 2010 that White's stardom erupted as never before.
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