Only four more weeks until Betty White hosts Saturday Night Live
Betty got her start doing live TV on a show called Hollywood on Television. But it wasn't on for just an hour or even two. Betty did 33 hours per week — five and a half hours a day, six days a week. All improv! A few years into her run she added an evening show on top of that called Life with Elizabeth
So in later years, doing only one weekly 30-minute scripted sitcom was a piece of cake for the happy homemaker turned Golden Girl
While you wait for Betty's SNL gig take a look at her talking about those early days of live TV in an interview we edited for the Archive of American Television.
Who doesn't love Betty? Remember Sue Ann Nivens?
ReplyDeleteWe've never met anyone that doesn't love Betty. And rightly so!
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