Blog #28 January 2026
Happy 104th Birthday to Betty White!! Welcome to my twenty-eighth blog! Today is Betty White’s 104th Birthday. Just Betty, not short for Elizabeth as most have thought. She was given the name “The First Lady of Television” after starring in many television shows. She did not have a start in television. Before the modern craze of podcasts, which is now working into streaming services, Betty led her voice to characters in radio shows. Her big television break was starring in her own show, The Betty White Show. She not only starred but also produced. She had creative control which led her to have a female director. All in the 1950s. Way ahead of the times. Over the years she starred in many tv shows as guest stars. Including The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Who’s the Boss? She got to star in another tv show as a regular in ABC’s The Golden Girls, see all roads do lead back to Disney. Does anyone also remember her being in a Snickers ad as a football player? When she got the...