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Betty White, one apple, take one.
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- Marker.
- Gorgeous.
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- Did I hear "gorgeous"?
- You heard "gorgeous," yes.
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Did anybody say "exquisite"?
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Exquisite.
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How about, "Oh, my God"? Nobody said that?
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- Oh, my God.
- Yeah, oh, that's good.
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I heard that.
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She has appeared
on very popular situation comedies.
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Sue Ann, what are you doing?
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I'm removing stubborn rust stains
from your sink.
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Oh, Sophia, that smells heavenly.
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Is it Chef Boyardee?
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She had her own talk-variety show
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in the early days of television,
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and she has been a hit
in every venue through every decade
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in which she has worked in our business.
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I'm sorry, who?
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Betty White.
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- Betty White.
- Betty White.
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- Betty White.
- Betty White.
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- It was Betty White.
- It was Betty, Betty, darling Betty White.
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Betty White.
Betty White, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is one of those special nights
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when a community comes together and says,
"You did a good job."
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You did a good job, Betty White.
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- She's a long-distance runner.
- If you're that good...
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That's right. If you're that good,
you can survive.
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Longevity is a big deal.
Like, she's broken all the barriers.
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Now, she's in her 90s.
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There's nothing...
no barrier left to break.
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- It's so nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
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How are you?
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Right this way, ladies.
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Big smile, big smile. Right on.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Betty White!
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She's done so much amazing work.
She's unstoppable, I'm sure, right?
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Well, this is a lovely, lovely
surprise tonight,
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and it's also a chance
for me to say thank you...
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for spoiling me rotten for so many years.
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I truly appreciate it,
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and it's just the best business to be in.
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She's been around forever.
What an amazing career.
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That's how she's influenced me.
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One of the things she always says,
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which I think is so interesting,
and I had never thought of it,
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"When you're a film star,
people see you on a great big screen,
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um, and they go somewhere,
and they pay to see you on the screen,
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and so those people feel
kind of untouchable."
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And she always says, you know,
"I've been in people's homes
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for 70 years,
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so people always feel like
I'm just accessible."
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She's this incredibly authentic,
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charming, talented, funny woman,
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and you can put somebody
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who's as multifaceted as Betty
in any situation,
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so because of that and by virtue of that,
she's always gonna be relevant,
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she's always gonna be,
you know, of the moment,
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and I think that's what
really makes her special.
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We decided to, you know, make some moves
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and take some chances in her career.
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It really started taking off
when she guested
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on the William Shatner roast
for Comedy Central.
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Betty White, ladies and gentlemen.
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Roasts are very risqué at times,
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and they wrote a lot of material
that Betty decided to go with.
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But you look great.
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You know, they make one percent milk now.
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Darling, you were supposed
to explore the galaxy,
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not fill it.
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When people saw that,
I mean, it was, you know,
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a little jarring and then really funny
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because you saw that side of her
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that you don't get to see
very often, you know?
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Just a little sassy.
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She didn't shy away from it, and from that,
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people saw a little different side
of Betty,
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and it opened things up.
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Hut.
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Mike, come on!
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It was a different image of Betty White
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than we'd seen in the past, you know,
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like, the whole, you know,
"So's your old man,"
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or, "That's not what your
girlfriend said last night."
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- Mike, what is your deal, man?
- Oh, come on, man.
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You've been riding me all day.
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Mike, you're playing like
Betty White out there.
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That's not what your girlfriend said.
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- Baby!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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She kind of got launched
into this pop-icon status, which...
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And then she was kind of doing everything.
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Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!
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There was a young man, I believe,
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in Austin, Texas,
who started that campaign.
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He said he was driving along
one night in Texas,
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and he was thinking about Betty White.
I said, "How old are you?"
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The Facebook campaign went crazy,
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and then SNL obviously took it seriously.
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I talked to Lorne Michaels,
and we found out, you know,
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who was gonna come back from the cast.
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Lorne was making it more
of a Mother's Day show,
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which was very special.
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I've done SNL,
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and it's hard.
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Betty rehearsed vigorously all week.
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Thursday, Betty looks at me with a look
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that I've never seen before,
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and she says, "Never again."
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Maybe I pushed her a little too far
and a little too much,
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because I was pushing her
out of her comfort zone,
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and then she said it.
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She looked, went right back
into the regular Betty White
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right after she said it.
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Stage fright is uncomfortable and all that,
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but it's a life-saver,
because the panic that sets in
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you've got to counter,
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and you've got to get a handle on that
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in order to do what you're doing,
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so the stage fright is what puts the edge,
I think, on a performance.
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Betty White!
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I sat back and said,
"Hmm, maybe I pushed her. Maybe I did."
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But I said, "No, no,
she's still gonna deliver.
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She's gonna come through."
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I have so many people
to thank for being here,
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but I really have to thank Facebook.
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When I first heard about the campaign
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to get me to host Saturday Night Live,
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I didn't know what Facebook was.
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And now that I do know what it is,
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I have to say, it sounds like
a huge waste of time.
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I can't believe Betty did SNL at that age
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and not only did SNL at that age,
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but took the ball and knocked it
so far out of the park.
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Bless their hearts.
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When I did it, they brought
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler,
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and they brought the original
wonderful people back,
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which gives you all that surrounding
with all those pros.
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♪ We love you ♪
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♪ We love you ♪
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♪ We love you ♪
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To have that opportunity
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to work with the Tina Feys of the world
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and Kristen Wiigs and these young
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writer-actress-producers, you know,
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I mean, they're kind of
what she was so many years ago.
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Hey, everybody, look what I wrassled up!
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Young woman,
you get that fish out of my parlor.
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What has gotten into you?
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She's a lesbian.
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I love Betty.
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We got to do a week at SNL with Betty.
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All the women of SNL got to do
that Mother's Day show with her,
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and it was inspiring just to see, one,
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that her timing just rock-solid still.
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Uh, what is your last name, ma'am?
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Blarfingal.
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Can you spell that for me?
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S-M-I-T-H.
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She grew up in live television.
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That's what she does,
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and even at 88,
she's going to love doing live television.
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She's Betty White.
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Florence, there's a tangy taste
in this muffin.
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Is that a cherry?
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No, no, my muffin hasn't had
a cherry since 1939.
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People think,
"Oh, well, poor old Betty White,
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she doesn't know what she's saying."
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Oh, yes, you do.
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Her demographic sort of exploded.
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You know, all of a sudden,
there were kids who were five,
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and people who were 95
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that just loved her across the board,
and she became "cool."
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All at once, this character actress
became a star,
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and what I find fascinating is that
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she's the only one who doesn't know it,
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because I don't think she ever
framed her life that way.
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Here with Hollywood legend
and Hollywood local Betty White.
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Betty, you grew up here in Hollywood.
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I came out when I was
a year and a half old. Uh...
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You moved out on your own then?
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No, no, I had a mother and father
who brought me out here,
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but I don't think California
was a state yet.
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I think we were still a territory.
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Betty was an only child.
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Horace and Tess, her mom and dad.
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Spoiled rotten but taught to appreciate it.
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Oh, they were great.
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When I picked parents, I picked doozies.
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Her mother was a big influence on her,
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and her mother was
very, very astute lady, very funny.
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She was a cockeyed optimist.
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She always made the point that,
if you look at those negatives,
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you spoil all the good stuff,
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and it goes by, and it's gone,
and you haven't tasted it,
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and I really believe in that philosophy.
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♪ All the longing ♪
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♪ Seeking, striving, waiting, yearning ♪
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With all performers, somebody comes along
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and makes them want to be a performer.
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In Betty's own life,
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Jeanette MacDonald
was everything for Betty.
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I didn't like Jeanette MacDonald.
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I was Jeanette MacDonald.
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She was my idol of all, and Nelson Eddy.
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♪ Her revelry, her sweet revelry ♪
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♪ The mandolinas ♪
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♪ Playing sweet ♪
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♪ The pleasant sound of dancing feet ♪
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They were as important in my world
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almost as my mother and dad.
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Betty actually began
doing a test for television in 1939.
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She wore her dress
from graduation in high school,
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and Betty sang a Jeanette MacDonald song,
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which is just, I think, amazing.
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I was just lucky
there was a local station, Channel 13,
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and I did a silly little song on the show,
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and a disc jockey, Al Jarvis,
saw me, and he called me.
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He said, "I'm starting a television show,
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and I'd like you to be my girl Friday."
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And I said, "Oh, gee, that's...
Yes, of course!"
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And it turned out was Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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We were on six days a week,
five-and-a-half hours a day.
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She not only did an hour,
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she did a whole day on the coast.
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Five hours or something.
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Nobody ever did that.
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No script, no anything.
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It was like going to television college.
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It was wonderful.
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It was just wild.
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Whenever they wanted to do
some kind of a show,
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they'd say, "Well, how will we do this?"
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I said, "Just do it."
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Al Jarvis hadn't done
any television, either.
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Al Jarvis was a radio DJ.
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He just thought he would move
his radio show to television,
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so we'd put on the records,
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and, oh, the phones would blow up,
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and people would write and say,
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"We don't know what you're talking.
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We see you talking, and we can't hear you.
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We can hear the records on the radio.
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We want to know what you're talking about."
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So after the first week,
they deep-sixed the records.
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We thought, "Well, what'll we do now
with no records to play?"
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Doing that much live television
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for that long gives you a skill set.
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I mean, she had to start
with that skill set.
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Let's be real.
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But she honed it
in those four years really quite well.
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Whoever came to town
would come through our show.
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It was the only game in town,
and you'd meet everybody.
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It became very successful.
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Don Fedderson, the manager of the station,
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called us in and said,
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"That little husband-and-wife thing
that you do,
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could you make that into a series?"
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In my wisdom,
I really was on top of everything.
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I said, "Well, it won't work.
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We do them like anecdotes that
a husband and wife will tell,
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you know, in an evening,
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but if you stretch that into a half hour,
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it goes flat in the middle.
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No, it won't work."
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Well, he said, "Try it." So we did.
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That was my first series,
Life with Elizabeth.
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Incident number one
in the Life of Elizabeth
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occurs every time
she and Alvin play a game,
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like checkers, gin rummy, or chess.
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Life With Elizabeth, we did that in...
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...the early '50s,
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did it live at the Beverly Hills Theater,
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a local movie house now,
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but we used to do television shows there.
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All these shows were L-I-V-E.
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The red light came on,
and you went on for 30 minutes.
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It was great, great fun.
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- Dime says I hit it.
- Okay, you got a bet.
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Hey, wait a minute. Hit what? Wait.
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That fence.
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- Pay up.
- Oh, no.
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You picked out your target
after you hit it.
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Well, if you're stupid enough
to make a bet like that,
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that's your lookout.
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Dime says I hit that tree.
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Yeah, that's more like it. Which tree?
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Wait.
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- That one.
- Oh.
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Nobody remembers Life With Elizabeth.
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They weren't born when
Life With Elizabeth was on.
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George Tibbles, and I produced it,
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and we had about $1.95
for a budget for each show.
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We played against
sort of a flat background.
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We had a couch and a couple
of living room chairs.
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You never knew what was gonna happen.
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You never knew when a camera
was gonna break,
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when a film was gonna break,
when you'd have to go out and stand there
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and talk for five minutes
just to fill air time.
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The audience for her show was up above.
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Climbing that ladder to talk
to them was part of her warm-up.
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She did the warm-up for her own show
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to get them engaged and going,
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and how cool is that?
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NBC had seen the local talk show.
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They said, "Do you think, Betty,
could you do...
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It's a half-hour every single day.
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That's five days a week.
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Do you think you could sustain that?"
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And I thought, "What am I gonna
do with the rest of the time?
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I'd been five and a hours a day
six days a week.
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Only a half-hour a day?
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What do we do with the rest of the day?"
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It's The Betty White Show from Hollywood.
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♪ It's time to say hello again ♪
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♪ And start our show again ♪
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♪ And sing a song or two for all of you ♪
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Hi, everybody. Hi.
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It was a variety show,
and I would sing some songs,
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and we'd interview people.
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We had a live band, Frank De Vol
and his orchestra.
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We would do live commercials.
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It was before tape.
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You didn't have anything
you could cut away to a commercial.
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You were on, and you were
doing the commercials.
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In just two tablespoons,
just this little bit contains
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twice the iron in a pound of calves' liver.
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I thought she was a great talent,
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being able to deliver a commercial,
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to sing, and to do interviews and whatnot.
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She was just magnificent.
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And she believed everything she said
and did on the show.
333
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I had this wonderful dancer, Arthur Duncan.
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Arthur, did you have a nice weekend?
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Sure did.
I did something a little different.
336
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I rehearsed with a choral group
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that's going to do Christmas carols
this Christmas.
338
00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:11,280
Oh, wonderful. You're going around
from house to house or...
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I think their plan is to go to hospitals
340
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and orphanages and things of that nature.
341
00:17:17,870 --> 00:17:19,455
Well, that's a wonderful thing to do
342
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for a Christmas season, Arthur.
343
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The first TV show I'd ever been on,
344
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and I credit Betty White
for really getting me
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started in show business, in television.
346
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Arthur's all set for his number today.
347
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This is a fine number for him to do
348
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when he was rehearsing Christmas carols
all day yesterday.
349
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Arthur Duncan and "Sing You Sinners."
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♪ Sing, you sinners, sing ♪
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♪ Sing, you sinners Sing, sing, sing ♪
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♪ Sinners, drop everything ♪
353
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♪ And let the harmony ring ♪
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♪ Up to heaven ♪
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♪ Sing, you sinners ♪
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Well, by now, we were national,
and we were all over the country,
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and all through the South,
there was this whole ruckus.
358
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They didn't... They were going
to take our show off the air
359
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if we didn't get rid of Arthur
because he was black.
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♪ Whenever there's music ♪
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♪ The devil kicks... ♪
362
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People in the South,
some of them resented me
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being on the show and wanted me thrown out,
364
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:28,774
and it was never a question at all.
365
00:18:28,857 --> 00:18:32,736
Evidently through the South at that point,
it was a very heavy thing.
366
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So I said, "I'm sorry,
but, you know, he stays, or...
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Live with it."
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♪ You know that things
are right when you sing ♪
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♪ Without a doubt
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♪ You sinners, sing ♪
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Oh, Arthur, that was just tremendous.
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Everybody was really going with that one.
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I was thrilled to be
one of the first female producers,
374
00:19:03,684 --> 00:19:07,771
and Betty Turbiville was one of
the very first female directors.
375
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That was so before the women's movement
376
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that I don't think we even thought of it.
377
00:19:14,903 --> 00:19:18,824
I never even thought of it being
a different gender, you know?
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It was just you did whatever the job was
379
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and whatever job you could get.
380
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She's one of the pioneers.
381
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A lot of us are here because
she was there at the beginning.
382
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She set the standard.
She set the way for many people.
383
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She came with all the tools.
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She knew everything about production.
385
00:19:39,761 --> 00:19:44,308
She was able to discuss
any aspect of the script
386
00:19:44,391 --> 00:19:46,476
or the lighting or the sound,
387
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so it was natural for her,
and she loved it.
388
00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:52,608
That's where somebody who's been
in the business forever
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and is a producer and all this...
390
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So she knows...
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You know, she knows
how to take all that she is
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and make it brilliant.
393
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- Here comes trouble.
- Yes.
394
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,662
- Hello.
- How are you?
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00:20:05,746 --> 00:20:08,040
I'm fine. A little damp, but I'm fine.
396
00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:09,708
Ooh, it is something, isn't it?
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00:20:09,791 --> 00:20:11,043
Very damp.
398
00:20:13,086 --> 00:20:14,755
I try to keep it light.
399
00:20:14,838 --> 00:20:15,839
Are they ready for us?
400
00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:17,174
If she's a little bit nervous
401
00:20:17,257 --> 00:20:18,800
because it's a new set or something.
402
00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:21,845
- How you doing?
- How you doing, sweetie?
403
00:20:22,262 --> 00:20:24,181
I'm kind of an anchor in that I'm familiar,
404
00:20:24,264 --> 00:20:26,475
so at least she can look to me
and know one person.
405
00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:28,352
You're doing good. It's funny.
406
00:20:28,435 --> 00:20:30,479
You're funny,
but keep your clothes on, please.
407
00:20:31,897 --> 00:20:33,815
Listen, you, I'm trying to get a date.
408
00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,902
You're ruining my mojo.
409
00:20:36,985 --> 00:20:39,029
She likes to run lines in between scenes.
410
00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:41,657
"But if they both were single
on their 95th birthdays,
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00:20:41,740 --> 00:20:43,742
which is today, they'd meet here."
412
00:20:43,825 --> 00:20:44,910
And then that's it.
413
00:20:44,993 --> 00:20:46,912
That's your only line in this one.
414
00:20:46,995 --> 00:20:49,081
I'm just there to help run it
and run it and run it
415
00:20:49,164 --> 00:20:52,376
so that she's sure
when the camera goes, she's ready.
416
00:20:52,459 --> 00:20:55,545
So has an old guy named Bernie
knocked on the door?
417
00:20:56,004 --> 00:20:57,839
And if he did, how does he look?
418
00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:01,009
'Cause in '97, he was jacked.
419
00:21:04,179 --> 00:21:07,224
She's a living legend,
and she's right there,
420
00:21:07,307 --> 00:21:08,558
and they'll all tell you.
421
00:21:08,642 --> 00:21:11,645
They learn so much just watching her,
doing a scene with her.
422
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:13,688
Action.
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00:21:13,730 --> 00:21:15,732
Here, I brought you some chocolates.
424
00:21:18,110 --> 00:21:20,028
Thank God, he's still jacked!
425
00:21:23,699 --> 00:21:28,078
When you think about
what makes a great ensemble actress,
426
00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:31,456
it's someone who can leave
their ego at the door,
427
00:21:32,165 --> 00:21:34,418
and it's someone who is always there
428
00:21:34,501 --> 00:21:37,921
in support of the other actress or actor.
429
00:21:39,089 --> 00:21:42,175
One Saturday morning,
the phone rang, and it was Mary.
430
00:21:42,259 --> 00:21:44,761
She said, "Would you do
a guest shot on my show?"
431
00:21:45,053 --> 00:21:49,725
Of course, she had to coax,
as you can imagine.
432
00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:52,602
Oh, God, she was just so innately funny
433
00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:55,981
and so full and rich in everything she did.
434
00:21:56,064 --> 00:21:59,234
She had so much energy inside her,
435
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:04,406
and she just jumped into any scene
that she was put in.
436
00:22:05,657 --> 00:22:07,659
Of course.
437
00:22:09,202 --> 00:22:11,621
Somebody forgot to plug in the oven.
438
00:22:13,248 --> 00:22:15,083
Well, I guess that just goes to show
439
00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:16,793
that anybody can make a mistake,
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00:22:16,877 --> 00:22:18,628
even your Happy Homemaker.
441
00:22:19,212 --> 00:22:20,547
Now, don't you go away.
442
00:22:20,630 --> 00:22:23,759
We'll be right back
after this commercial message.
443
00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:25,510
- All clear.
- All right.
444
00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:27,596
Who the hell is responsible for this?
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00:22:28,555 --> 00:22:32,309
Sue Ann Nivens was...
She was the Happy Homemaker.
446
00:22:32,392 --> 00:22:34,895
She had a television show.
447
00:22:35,103 --> 00:22:39,191
She could do anything in the kitchen,
I mean, anything...
448
00:22:39,274 --> 00:22:42,152
She was just the master of everything
449
00:22:42,235 --> 00:22:44,571
in the homemaking department.
450
00:22:44,654 --> 00:22:47,074
Do try a little iodine
for that scratch on the desk,
451
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:48,366
and baking soda will bring
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00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:50,098
that grease up out of the carpet
like nothing.
453
00:22:50,118 --> 00:22:53,205
Oh, dear, dear, don't throw away
those coffee grounds.
454
00:22:53,288 --> 00:22:55,457
They're the perfect plant food
for Mary's geraniums.
455
00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:59,127
When Val left as Rhoda, when Betty came in,
456
00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:00,837
there was a whole new relationship
457
00:23:00,921 --> 00:23:04,382
for Mary and Sue Ann Nivens
that really worked.
458
00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:06,843
Sometimes I think I drive myself too hard,
459
00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:09,638
but there's so much to be done
with so little...
460
00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:10,764
Talent.
461
00:23:12,349 --> 00:23:13,683
So little time.
462
00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:16,561
After all, life is so brief
and impermanent,
463
00:23:16,645 --> 00:23:18,021
much like your hair.
464
00:23:19,606 --> 00:23:22,776
Sue Ann, I was able to show another side
465
00:23:22,859 --> 00:23:27,739
that was kind of fun
and a little lecherous, a little mean.
466
00:23:27,823 --> 00:23:30,033
Oh, she emasculated Murray on that one show
467
00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:31,743
if you saw that about marriage.
468
00:23:31,910 --> 00:23:33,328
He had to wear a dress.
469
00:23:33,912 --> 00:23:35,288
This is embarrassing.
470
00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:37,374
I mean, it's humiliating.
471
00:23:37,457 --> 00:23:39,084
Look, I told you I've got a lunch date.
472
00:23:39,167 --> 00:23:41,169
Oh, you can go to lunch anytime.
473
00:23:41,378 --> 00:23:43,755
How often do you get a chance
to wear a wedding gown?
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00:23:45,757 --> 00:23:49,302
She can deliver a line like nobody,
475
00:23:49,386 --> 00:23:52,139
and they created that character,
476
00:23:52,222 --> 00:23:54,808
and she did that whole dimples thing.
477
00:23:54,891 --> 00:23:58,895
She also had a little problem
that she liked men,
478
00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:02,107
any men, anybody's men.
479
00:24:02,190 --> 00:24:07,112
She just liked men, and that was sort of
480
00:24:07,487 --> 00:24:09,281
what made the character kind of fun.
481
00:24:09,364 --> 00:24:10,615
You'll have to excuse me.
482
00:24:10,699 --> 00:24:11,992
I promised Georgette
483
00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:14,327
- that I would select the wine for dinner.
- Oh, sure.
484
00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:16,580
Oh, incidentally, Mr. Van Dillen,
485
00:24:16,663 --> 00:24:18,498
you are the most gorgeous hunk of flesh
486
00:24:18,582 --> 00:24:19,958
I have ever seen.
487
00:24:23,461 --> 00:24:25,213
You value that writing.
488
00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:26,798
You never take it for granted
489
00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:28,675
because it doesn't happen that often.
490
00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:31,011
Mary, this is a marvelous party,
491
00:24:31,094 --> 00:24:33,680
and the cheese puffs are delicious.
492
00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:35,682
Sue Ann, you made the cheese puffs.
493
00:24:36,933 --> 00:24:38,518
Oh, did I?
494
00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:42,355
My memory must be beclouded
495
00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:45,108
by this mediocre little off-year champagne.
496
00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:49,696
The show was written so brilliantly
497
00:24:49,779 --> 00:24:52,616
that everybody had their time to shine.
498
00:24:52,782 --> 00:24:54,993
Anybody like an hors d'oeuvre?
499
00:24:55,243 --> 00:24:57,454
I wouldn't recommend the cheese puffs.
500
00:24:58,622 --> 00:24:59,873
People keep tasting them
501
00:24:59,956 --> 00:25:01,791
and then putting them in the ashtray.
502
00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:06,671
When writing is really good
503
00:25:06,755 --> 00:25:09,466
like it was on Mary Tyler Moore,
504
00:25:09,549 --> 00:25:12,344
it's so much more interesting
to the audience
505
00:25:12,427 --> 00:25:15,513
to find the backgrounds
of all the different characters.
506
00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:18,266
They discover that she had this...
507
00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:20,727
like, a triple king-size bed.
508
00:25:23,813 --> 00:25:27,484
Sue Ann, you remember Ted
from the newsroom?
509
00:25:28,652 --> 00:25:29,861
Of course.
510
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,613
How have you been, Ted?
511
00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:34,074
Oh, swell, swell, Sue Ann.
512
00:25:34,157 --> 00:25:36,117
All of a sudden, Ted is there
513
00:25:36,201 --> 00:25:38,036
straightening his tie in the ceiling.
514
00:25:39,621 --> 00:25:40,747
Whoa.
515
00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:44,584
What a great bedroom, Sue Ann.
516
00:25:55,011 --> 00:25:59,599
So, you know the whole thing
is mirrored up there.
517
00:25:59,933 --> 00:26:00,976
It was funny.
518
00:26:01,142 --> 00:26:03,270
You had to tune in week to week, you know,
519
00:26:03,353 --> 00:26:04,854
to see what everybody was gonna do,
520
00:26:04,938 --> 00:26:06,856
and she created some of those characters
521
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:09,985
where you always wanted to see
what Sue Ann was gonna do
522
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:11,361
or what Rose was gonna do.
523
00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:14,322
Were you shocked
when they said, "Now, Betty,
524
00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:16,491
we've got this wonderful series for you.
525
00:26:16,574 --> 00:26:18,827
We want you to be one of the Golden Girls."
526
00:26:19,286 --> 00:26:20,846
- Did you...
- Well, all I was thinking,
527
00:26:20,870 --> 00:26:22,622
all that time in makeup, you know,
528
00:26:22,706 --> 00:26:24,437
trying to put on the age makeup
and everything, but...
529
00:26:24,457 --> 00:26:27,502
I know, isn't that...
530
00:26:30,505 --> 00:26:32,632
Betty White was one of the few people
531
00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:35,302
who walks into the room, and you know her.
532
00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:37,887
You've known her all your life
for some reason.
533
00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:41,808
She's one of those people
always welcome to any show she's in,
534
00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:44,144
from The Golden Girls to...
535
00:26:44,227 --> 00:26:48,732
She's just one of those people,
and she's funny.
536
00:26:48,815 --> 00:26:51,901
I'll never forget the time they sang
at our annual talent show
537
00:26:51,985 --> 00:26:53,778
right after the herring juggling act.
538
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:55,947
You mean to tell me
539
00:26:56,031 --> 00:26:58,575
that somebody actually juggled herring?
540
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,201
No!
541
00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:02,662
It was the herring who did the juggling.
542
00:27:04,914 --> 00:27:06,499
Tiny little Ginsu knives.
543
00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:09,878
Really very dangerous.
544
00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:12,589
I mean, one false move,
they could've filleted themselves.
545
00:27:14,841 --> 00:27:18,094
Growing up, uh, Betty White
made me want to live in Florida,
546
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:19,888
watching The Golden Girls.
547
00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:24,225
I've always loved, loved The Golden Girls,
548
00:27:24,309 --> 00:27:28,021
and, you know, it was one of
the staple sitcoms when I was a kid,
549
00:27:28,104 --> 00:27:30,273
and it was something
that I was sort of raised with,
550
00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:32,400
and I loved that gang.
551
00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:34,569
I think I spent probably from the time
552
00:27:34,652 --> 00:27:37,447
that I was about
six years old, seven years old,
553
00:27:37,530 --> 00:27:39,304
watching The Golden Girls
with my grandmother,
554
00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:41,493
and so, you know, I felt like Betty
555
00:27:41,576 --> 00:27:43,953
sort of grew up with me in some weird way.
556
00:27:44,037 --> 00:27:48,625
Rose, is this another one of those
Scandinavian Viking concoctions?
557
00:27:48,708 --> 00:27:49,793
Yes!
558
00:27:50,877 --> 00:27:52,962
It's called genuckenflugen cake.
559
00:27:55,965 --> 00:27:59,302
It's an ancient recipe,
but I Americanized it.
560
00:27:59,386 --> 00:28:01,596
Yeah, so one might say
you brought geflurkenurken
561
00:28:01,679 --> 00:28:03,098
into the '80s?
562
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:08,228
Yes, but I'm not one
to blow my own vetubenflugen.
563
00:28:10,271 --> 00:28:12,774
And I fell in love with her. I loved Rose.
564
00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:15,151
Rose didn't have a mean bone in her body.
565
00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:18,655
Golden Girls, like, you know,
any other great, epic,
566
00:28:18,738 --> 00:28:22,409
iconic show or film,
is a love story, you know?
567
00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:25,203
And it's a love story between
these four elderly ladies
568
00:28:25,286 --> 00:28:28,331
living in Florida, and they've all,
lived their lives to the fullest,
569
00:28:28,415 --> 00:28:31,918
and they continue to do so,
and they do it as a love story.
570
00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:33,294
Four points of a compass.
571
00:28:33,378 --> 00:28:38,800
There was Rue, who was the beautiful, sexy.
572
00:28:38,883 --> 00:28:41,010
Rose, what was your first impression of me?
573
00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:44,931
I thought you wore too much makeup
and were a slut.
574
00:28:51,855 --> 00:28:54,607
I was wrong.
You don't wear too much makeup.
575
00:28:56,317 --> 00:28:59,821
Bea Arthur was the tall, strong,
576
00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:03,158
not always easy character.
577
00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:05,493
- Spanish fly is not a fly?
- No.
578
00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:06,745
- What is it?
- It's a beetle.
579
00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:08,922
They call it a fly,
but it's really a beetle?
580
00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:11,207
- Yes.
- How do they know it's Spanish?
581
00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:13,835
Because it wears a little sombrero, Rose.
582
00:29:14,961 --> 00:29:19,841
And Estelle Getty,
the older woman who was a dynamite.
583
00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:22,802
- You're awfully cranky today.
- Well, forgive me.
584
00:29:22,886 --> 00:29:24,387
My arthritis is bothering me.
585
00:29:24,471 --> 00:29:26,598
My Social Security check was late,
586
00:29:26,681 --> 00:29:29,934
and I realized today I haven't
showered with a man in 22 years.
587
00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:34,063
The writers were so phenomenal.
588
00:29:34,147 --> 00:29:37,609
They blended those characters together
589
00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:41,488
and rounded the edges off,
so we all fit like that.
590
00:29:41,571 --> 00:29:46,159
Those girls were so talented
at just simply flashing a look
591
00:29:46,284 --> 00:29:49,078
that would ride a wave of laughter
off to the next look.
592
00:29:49,412 --> 00:29:53,666
I mean, Stan and I went through a period
where we had no marital relations at all.
593
00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:55,960
I totally cut off his sex.
594
00:29:56,252 --> 00:29:57,587
You mean it grows back?
595
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,575
And then it would ride
another wave of laughter
596
00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:08,223
when, you know,
Rue would look at someone else,
597
00:30:08,306 --> 00:30:10,099
and then Betty would look at,
you know, Bea.
598
00:30:20,276 --> 00:30:22,070
Yes, Rose, he's a lizard.
599
00:30:24,447 --> 00:30:25,782
The scripts were incredibly short
600
00:30:25,865 --> 00:30:27,617
because they were so packed with laughter
601
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:29,285
just simply from their looks.
602
00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:31,454
So that, to me, is just pure talent.
603
00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:32,705
They were letting people in
604
00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:34,666
on what older women were talking about.
605
00:30:34,749 --> 00:30:37,710
We weren't allow to come
to those coffee klatches.
606
00:30:37,794 --> 00:30:38,962
They'd put it on the air.
607
00:30:39,045 --> 00:30:40,725
I said, "Oh, that's what they talk about."
608
00:30:40,797 --> 00:30:43,174
It's about life,
and we'd talk about real life.
609
00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:44,259
Who's not interested?
610
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:49,681
She comes here. She sits down.
611
00:30:49,764 --> 00:30:51,975
We have a little caviar.
We have a little drink,
612
00:30:52,058 --> 00:30:54,811
and we talk about what happened
over the week.
613
00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:58,982
Here we go.
614
00:30:59,065 --> 00:31:02,193
But then, suddenly,
I feel her getting edgy.
615
00:31:02,277 --> 00:31:04,153
She wants to get to the table.
616
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:09,200
She is ruthless, let me tell you, ruthless.
617
00:31:09,284 --> 00:31:11,786
Six, seven...
618
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,247
She always says,
"Well, I know we're friends here,
619
00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:18,334
but when we get over there,
all friendships cease,"
620
00:31:18,751 --> 00:31:21,212
and she means it.
621
00:31:21,296 --> 00:31:24,424
And I have to tell you,
she beats us most of the time.
622
00:31:24,507 --> 00:31:26,968
You can see what a friendly game it is.
623
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,431
We were such nice friends over there.
624
00:31:31,514 --> 00:31:33,474
Betty is a crossword lover.
625
00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:36,477
She's an all-word-game loveras with Password
626
00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:38,813
and $25,000 Pyramid and that.
627
00:31:39,063 --> 00:31:42,358
She loves words and creating words.
628
00:31:42,692 --> 00:31:44,777
- Oh, boy.
- I'll add an "S".
629
00:31:44,861 --> 00:31:47,071
Oh, what a surprise.
630
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,617
One, two, three.
631
00:31:50,783 --> 00:31:52,452
She loves playing games.
632
00:31:52,535 --> 00:31:53,828
Games are her life.
633
00:31:54,621 --> 00:31:56,205
- Child.
- Minor.
634
00:31:56,289 --> 00:31:57,624
Minor, right.
635
00:31:58,833 --> 00:32:02,003
She enjoys the excitement.
636
00:32:02,337 --> 00:32:04,339
She enjoys the competition.
637
00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:06,654
What do you think the answer
to the puzzle is?
638
00:32:06,674 --> 00:32:08,509
- Penguin.
- Is it a penguin?
639
00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:10,428
- It's a penguin!
- Oh!
640
00:32:10,511 --> 00:32:12,513
Oh, that's wonderful.
641
00:32:12,722 --> 00:32:14,599
- Oh, that's lovely.
- Okay.
642
00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:17,310
She's witty, and she's quick,
643
00:32:18,144 --> 00:32:22,482
and those two are great qualities to have
644
00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:27,070
if you're going to appear
as a celebrity guest on game shows.
645
00:32:27,153 --> 00:32:28,613
All right, Dolores.
646
00:32:28,696 --> 00:32:30,365
Give us the answer that she's given.
647
00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:33,952
We give you $5,000. Sacred.
648
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:36,955
I hope it comes through for me
this time... Sacred heart.
649
00:32:37,246 --> 00:32:38,748
Sacred heart.
650
00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:42,523
Well, we're gonna find out
if it comes through
651
00:32:42,543 --> 00:32:44,420
for you or not, Dolores.
652
00:32:44,504 --> 00:32:47,090
Betty, she says "sacred heart"
will match you for the $5,000.
653
00:32:47,173 --> 00:32:48,299
What do you say?
654
00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:50,259
But you also make a sacred vow,
don't you...
655
00:32:50,343 --> 00:32:51,866
- A sacred vow.
- ...with all your heart!
656
00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:53,012
With all your heart!
657
00:32:58,017 --> 00:32:59,852
Betty White hosted her own show,
658
00:32:59,936 --> 00:33:04,691
the only woman to have
won an Emmy for hosting a game show.
659
00:33:04,857 --> 00:33:08,945
Her qualities have really helped her
throughout her career,
660
00:33:09,278 --> 00:33:13,658
and she's fast enough
to handle any situation that comes up.
661
00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:18,913
Yes, it's Password, and now,
here's your host on Password,
662
00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:20,456
Allen Ludden.
663
00:33:23,751 --> 00:33:26,045
Allen Ludden was the game-show maven,
664
00:33:26,129 --> 00:33:27,714
and along with Bob Stewart,
665
00:33:27,797 --> 00:33:31,676
one of the great game producers
in television history,
666
00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:33,594
they came up with Password.
667
00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:36,639
The more games you win,
the more money you win.
668
00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:37,723
Isn't that great?
669
00:33:37,932 --> 00:33:41,310
Allen was a wonderfully neutral guy
670
00:33:41,394 --> 00:33:43,229
rooting for both teams.
671
00:33:43,312 --> 00:33:45,773
You would never know from watching him
672
00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:50,987
that he wasn't enthusiastically
hoping everybody was perfect.
673
00:33:51,070 --> 00:33:53,239
So he worked out to be a pretty good guy.
674
00:33:53,322 --> 00:33:57,035
I met this lady on this show in 1961.
675
00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:58,558
First time I ever met Betty was right here
676
00:33:58,578 --> 00:33:59,620
doing Password in 1961.
677
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:01,664
Marvelous. What a nice thing.
678
00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:03,750
17 years.
679
00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:06,169
Yeah, that was...
680
00:34:06,252 --> 00:34:08,254
- In '61 is 18 years.
- Wow, 18.
681
00:34:08,337 --> 00:34:10,006
Yeah, we've been married how many?
682
00:34:10,089 --> 00:34:12,341
Something like three, four, something.
683
00:34:12,425 --> 00:34:16,554
They met on Password, Betty and Allen,
684
00:34:16,637 --> 00:34:17,827
and they looked at each other.
685
00:34:17,847 --> 00:34:20,850
They said, "This is it,"
and it was a love affair.
686
00:34:20,933 --> 00:34:23,895
I flew to New York to do
a couple of things,
687
00:34:23,978 --> 00:34:26,814
and Password was one of them,
and I fell in love with the game.
688
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:28,441
I loved the game of Password.
689
00:34:28,524 --> 00:34:30,244
This is the sparkling television star
690
00:34:30,276 --> 00:34:32,361
and great Password player, Betty White.
691
00:34:32,653 --> 00:34:39,160
The host was very nice and very attractive
and I thought, "Oh."
692
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:41,829
Hello, Allen.
693
00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:44,207
What are your plans for the summer, Betty?
694
00:34:44,290 --> 00:34:45,917
Well, I'm gonna do some...
695
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,711
What did you have in mind, Allen?
696
00:34:49,128 --> 00:34:51,297
I think that's one of the reasons
697
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:55,802
why she came in and out of New York
698
00:34:55,885 --> 00:34:57,720
for short periods of time
699
00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:02,433
to do "Password" or something, you know?
700
00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:07,522
So there was some kind of spark
going on early.
701
00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:10,608
There was just a rapport and a warmth.
702
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:14,487
We just kind of... We dug each other a lot.
703
00:35:14,695 --> 00:35:17,198
His whole view of how to deal with Betty
704
00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:21,410
was to constantly send her notes,
to constantly woo her.
705
00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:25,081
By the end of the year,
he wouldn't say, "Hello."
706
00:35:25,164 --> 00:35:26,374
He'd say, "Will you marry me?"
707
00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:28,209
Well, I thought that was such a joke.
708
00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:29,460
I mean, that's ridiculous.
709
00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:35,424
One night, we went to dinner,
and he gave me a jewelry box,
710
00:35:35,508 --> 00:35:37,156
and I opened it,
and there's a wedding ring,
711
00:35:37,176 --> 00:35:39,846
a lovely wedding ring
with diamonds all the way around.
712
00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:42,890
He says, "You might as well wear it.
713
00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:45,059
You're gonna say yes sooner or later."
714
00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:48,187
Well, as any red-blooded American girl
would do,
715
00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:49,397
I got mad.
716
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,024
I got furious, and I gave it back to him,
and I said,
717
00:35:52,108 --> 00:35:55,528
"Forget it, and stop pushing me.
I'm not interested."
718
00:35:55,611 --> 00:35:56,904
I lived in California.
719
00:35:56,988 --> 00:35:59,157
There was no way I was
gonna move to New York.
720
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:01,534
And he was constantly presenting it,
721
00:36:01,617 --> 00:36:03,494
and she was constantly rejecting it.
722
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:05,079
Did he give it back to the jeweler?
723
00:36:05,163 --> 00:36:08,583
No, he put it on a chain around his neck.
724
00:36:08,791 --> 00:36:10,376
We'd go to the beach.
725
00:36:10,459 --> 00:36:11,502
There's the wedding ring.
726
00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:13,921
You'd see it at all times. "Here it is."
727
00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:17,675
So in my idiocy,
728
00:36:17,758 --> 00:36:19,969
I wasted a whole year
we could have been together.
729
00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:21,679
I'd say, "No."
730
00:36:21,971 --> 00:36:25,266
She hates the fact that she held him off
for a year and a half
731
00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:27,393
because she didn't want
to move to New York,
732
00:36:27,476 --> 00:36:29,312
and she didn't know
if she could be a mother
733
00:36:29,395 --> 00:36:31,355
to three young people.
734
00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:35,735
Uh... She says today...
If you ask her, she'll say,
735
00:36:35,818 --> 00:36:39,363
"I lost all that time.
I lost all that time."
736
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:42,950
And, finally, Easter came along,
737
00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:46,329
and he sent me this beautiful
little stuffed bunny
738
00:36:46,412 --> 00:36:52,543
with ruby and sapphire
and gold earrings on its ears,
739
00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:56,088
and it just said, "Please say yes."
740
00:36:56,380 --> 00:37:00,009
So that night when he called me,
I didn't say, "Hello."
741
00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:04,347
I said, "Yes," and always
after that, he said,
742
00:37:04,430 --> 00:37:08,267
"Betty is the only woman
I ever could imagine...
743
00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:11,187
She didn't say yes to me
because of those earrings."
744
00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:15,441
It was because of that soft bunny...
...that I said yes.
745
00:37:17,151 --> 00:37:18,653
It had suddenly dawned on me
746
00:37:18,736 --> 00:37:20,613
I was gonna spend the rest of my life
747
00:37:20,696 --> 00:37:23,574
without him because of my stubbornness,
748
00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:25,701
so sure enough, we got married,
749
00:37:25,785 --> 00:37:28,120
and I moved to New York for four years,
750
00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:32,458
and then Goodson-Todman moved
Password back to California,
751
00:37:32,541 --> 00:37:33,876
and life was wonderful.
752
00:37:34,335 --> 00:37:35,795
This is my wife, Betty, Mr. Unger.
753
00:37:35,878 --> 00:37:36,963
Felix.
754
00:37:37,046 --> 00:37:40,508
Nice to know you, Mrs. White...
Ms. White, Ms. Ludden.
755
00:37:40,591 --> 00:37:42,134
- Betty.
- Ah.
756
00:37:42,218 --> 00:37:45,221
You know, I watch you all the time, Betty.
You're my biggest fan.
757
00:37:48,557 --> 00:37:49,664
Thank you. That's very nice.
758
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:51,477
I remember when you had your own show
759
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,729
years and years and years ago.
760
00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:57,942
That many?
761
00:37:58,526 --> 00:37:59,926
It's amazing how youthful you look.
762
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,446
Thank you.
763
00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:04,031
I'm even younger on the reruns.
764
00:38:06,492 --> 00:38:08,119
She had the greatest marriage.
765
00:38:08,202 --> 00:38:12,540
Allen Ludden, her darling husband,
died quite many years ago.
766
00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:14,917
I didn't know how she would do
after Allen passed away,
767
00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:17,211
but she's strong.
768
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:19,380
She got through that, and look at her.
769
00:38:19,463 --> 00:38:24,468
There was an aura
that surrounded how they were
770
00:38:24,552 --> 00:38:26,095
that I'll never forget.
771
00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:29,598
Once it happens,
772
00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:32,727
it's not something you make up
or you make room for.
773
00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:34,103
You can't avoid it.
774
00:38:34,186 --> 00:38:36,897
You can't get away from it,
and you don't want to.
775
00:38:38,649 --> 00:38:40,776
We were kind of hung up on each other.
776
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:43,696
We, uh... We had a crush on each other.
777
00:38:47,533 --> 00:38:50,244
- Nice to have had you here.
- Nice to have had you here.
778
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:51,892
- You played a very good game.
- Thank you.
779
00:38:51,912 --> 00:38:53,728
- We'll see you all next week...
- It's been fun with this one.
780
00:38:53,748 --> 00:38:55,187
...at the same time or tomorrow
on daytime Password.
781
00:38:55,207 --> 00:38:57,877
Until then, this is Allen Ludden
saying the password tonight is...
782
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:58,836
Home.
783
00:38:58,919 --> 00:39:01,255
Will you take me home, please, Mr. Ludden?
784
00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:02,673
I certainly will, Mrs. Ludden.
785
00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:04,517
Thank you. Good night.
786
00:39:06,761 --> 00:39:08,888
I can put the addresses on the envelopes
787
00:39:08,971 --> 00:39:10,953
'cause I have them all here
in my phone, so you don't...
788
00:39:10,973 --> 00:39:12,892
If you write the notes and hand them to me,
789
00:39:12,975 --> 00:39:14,977
then I can get everything addressed, and...
790
00:39:15,061 --> 00:39:18,522
She is the most hands-on person,
791
00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:22,193
in terms of that professional stuff
792
00:39:22,276 --> 00:39:23,569
that I've ever worked for.
793
00:39:24,278 --> 00:39:25,821
She reads her fan mail.
794
00:39:25,905 --> 00:39:27,531
She signs her own fan mail.
795
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:29,909
She still writes letters to Eagle Scouts.
796
00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:32,495
Why my hand is...
797
00:39:32,578 --> 00:39:34,038
It doesn't look like my writing.
798
00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:35,706
My hand doesn't know how to work.
799
00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:39,293
- Let's take a look.
- Thank you.
800
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:40,378
Oh, it's still that...
801
00:39:40,461 --> 00:39:42,671
it's still the pretty Betty handwriting.
802
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:45,925
I have not encountered anybody
with a work ethic
803
00:39:46,008 --> 00:39:48,719
like Betty's in my career.
804
00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:50,888
I mean, she makes you want to work harder.
805
00:39:50,971 --> 00:39:52,306
She makes you want to show up.
806
00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:55,726
Okay, we're gonna do some schedule first
because I want to make sure
807
00:39:55,810 --> 00:39:58,062
that you have everything
up-to-date that I have.
808
00:39:58,145 --> 00:39:59,772
Okeydoke, sweetheart.
809
00:40:00,314 --> 00:40:01,982
She wants that schedule full.
810
00:40:02,108 --> 00:40:03,401
She loves to work.
811
00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:05,111
She loves to be busy.
812
00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:09,031
And then, pickup for the salon
at 7:00 on Friday.
813
00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:11,659
- Yes.
- And Fleming at 11:00 for body.
814
00:40:11,742 --> 00:40:15,746
Right. On Wednesday...
815
00:40:15,830 --> 00:40:18,332
Pickup at 6:15 for Hot in Cleveland.
816
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,936
Yeah, you're gonna have dinner
with the Hot in Cleveland ladies.
817
00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:22,775
- The ladies, uh-huh.
- That will be nice to see them
818
00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:24,395
'cause you haven't seen them in a while.
819
00:40:24,463 --> 00:40:27,633
- Yeah. No, it's been quite a while.
- Yeah.
820
00:40:27,716 --> 00:40:31,095
Hot in Cleveland was a gift from...
821
00:40:31,178 --> 00:40:33,722
I must have been doing
something right in my life
822
00:40:33,806 --> 00:40:36,725
because I was given this gift
right on my lap,
823
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:40,271
um, and when they said, "Read the script.
We have Betty White,"
824
00:40:40,354 --> 00:40:42,648
I was like,
"Oh, I don't even have to read it.
825
00:40:42,731 --> 00:40:44,291
Yeah, I want to work with Betty White."
826
00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:50,656
They asked me if I'd do a guest shot,
and I said,
827
00:40:50,739 --> 00:40:52,366
"Well, if..." It was the pilot,
828
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:57,872
"and if it gets picked up,
and how few shows get picked up,"
829
00:40:58,164 --> 00:41:00,207
I said, "I won't be able to do the show.
830
00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:03,377
I'm too busy, but I can do...
831
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:05,296
I'll do a one-shot on the pilot."
832
00:41:05,379 --> 00:41:06,964
So what are you, like 100?
833
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:10,092
I don't like you.
834
00:41:12,094 --> 00:41:13,888
Aren't you that girl from that show?
835
00:41:13,971 --> 00:41:15,181
Yes, yes, I am.
836
00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:17,183
- Are you a fan?
- No.
837
00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:22,229
When it was canceled,
I said, "Good riddance."
838
00:41:23,314 --> 00:41:26,358
Luckily, after the pilot was done,
839
00:41:26,442 --> 00:41:29,695
Betty seemed to have had
such an amazing time that she said,
840
00:41:29,778 --> 00:41:31,322
"Oh, yeah, sure, I'll be in."
841
00:41:31,405 --> 00:41:34,116
They never were able to get rid of me.
842
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,993
They couldn't lose me from then on.
843
00:41:36,285 --> 00:41:39,955
You know, Joy,
instead of two weeks in Paris,
844
00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:42,041
we could spend two weeks in Cleveland.
845
00:41:42,124 --> 00:41:44,168
I mean, the Paris of Ohio.
846
00:41:45,586 --> 00:41:46,879
No, that's Toledo.
847
00:41:50,049 --> 00:41:52,718
There is no other way
to work except in an ensemble.
848
00:41:52,801 --> 00:41:55,513
I think you feed off each other...
849
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:57,348
No, I know you feed off each other.
850
00:41:57,431 --> 00:42:00,559
It raises your own game,
and I'm telling you,
851
00:42:00,643 --> 00:42:03,604
working with Betty White
is really like having
852
00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:05,856
a master class of comedic timing.
853
00:42:05,940 --> 00:42:08,692
So, we're four single girls
on a Saturday night.
854
00:42:10,402 --> 00:42:12,655
- Victoria!
- Wait, that's not me!
855
00:42:12,947 --> 00:42:13,989
It's me.
856
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:16,659
I signed up when my bender was over.
857
00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:20,246
In fact, that's my screen name...
BenderOver.
858
00:42:27,586 --> 00:42:29,672
So we call it the "BenderOver scene,"
859
00:42:30,214 --> 00:42:33,509
and to this day,
860
00:42:33,592 --> 00:42:38,222
I cannot watch "BenderOver"
without laughing hysterically.
861
00:42:38,639 --> 00:42:41,058
I signed up when my bender was over.
862
00:42:44,478 --> 00:42:45,771
Oh, I am so sorry.
863
00:42:45,896 --> 00:42:48,691
It just gives you the giggles
because Betty White has the giggles,
864
00:42:48,774 --> 00:42:52,152
and when Betty White has the giggles,
I defy you.
865
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:55,114
There is no way
that you cannot giggle yourself.
866
00:42:55,197 --> 00:42:57,992
I signed up when my bender was over.
867
00:42:59,868 --> 00:43:02,037
Hang on. I'm gonna do it.
868
00:43:03,038 --> 00:43:05,040
Not this, but...
869
00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:08,002
I signed up when my bender was over.
870
00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:10,921
In fact, that's my screen name...
871
00:43:11,005 --> 00:43:12,548
"BenderOver."
872
00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:18,137
We had a few during the years,
873
00:43:18,220 --> 00:43:21,473
a few really amazing moments
874
00:43:21,557 --> 00:43:24,435
where everything stopped on the set,
875
00:43:24,518 --> 00:43:27,813
and people just wanted to watch
Betty work with Tim Conway.
876
00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:31,442
I believe you left this behind
at the dance, princess.
877
00:43:32,484 --> 00:43:35,362
Well, I had to rush off
when the clock struck 9:00.
878
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:36,614
Yes.
879
00:43:36,697 --> 00:43:38,365
Betty worked with Carol Burnett.
880
00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:43,287
Oh, Elka, I am so glad
we had this time together.
881
00:43:44,246 --> 00:43:46,165
Me too.
882
00:43:46,415 --> 00:43:49,793
Betty worked with her old
Mary Tyler Moore crew.
883
00:43:50,085 --> 00:43:54,214
So to have those people
come into this new family,
884
00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:57,384
it was an interesting and delightful week.
885
00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:58,969
You were the bombshell.
886
00:43:59,053 --> 00:44:02,723
Diane was the legs,
and Mamie Sue was the ditz.
887
00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:06,185
No, no, no, I was the legs.
888
00:44:07,519 --> 00:44:13,359
Angie was the brains,
and Mamie Sue was the... ditz.
889
00:44:15,110 --> 00:44:17,196
Well, the joke's on all of you.
890
00:44:17,279 --> 00:44:20,574
You're not any of those things anymore,
but I'm still ditzy.
891
00:44:23,827 --> 00:44:25,621
The memory I take away from that
892
00:44:25,704 --> 00:44:28,082
is the mortal changes happen,
893
00:44:28,165 --> 00:44:33,003
but our love for each other endures.
894
00:44:33,629 --> 00:44:36,590
The first time I was just speechless,
895
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:40,969
which is hard for me, was when
Carl Reiner came on the show.
896
00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:42,680
Betty and I worked on...
897
00:44:42,763 --> 00:44:45,057
I worked on her show called
Hot in Cleveland.
898
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:49,311
Oh, well, well, Carl is something else.
899
00:44:49,603 --> 00:44:52,856
And there was a scene in an outdoor patio,
900
00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:55,442
and Carl and Betty
are getting to know one another,
901
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:57,694
and they just riffed off each other
902
00:44:57,778 --> 00:45:01,281
like no one else was in the room,
and they were brilliant.
903
00:45:01,573 --> 00:45:04,493
The truth is, I'm a great driver,
904
00:45:04,576 --> 00:45:07,663
but sometimes I like to drive real slow
905
00:45:07,746 --> 00:45:09,206
just to mess with people.
906
00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:14,670
I am having such a good time.
907
00:45:15,337 --> 00:45:16,338
Me too.
908
00:45:16,422 --> 00:45:17,589
It was so perfect.
909
00:45:17,673 --> 00:45:20,926
When I saw it, I said,
"That is a symbiotic scene.
910
00:45:21,009 --> 00:45:22,469
That couple belonged together."
911
00:45:23,053 --> 00:45:24,596
I think we should get married.
912
00:45:25,597 --> 00:45:26,640
Me too.
913
00:45:27,474 --> 00:45:28,851
Pass the salt.
914
00:45:29,435 --> 00:45:31,395
Really? You'd marry me?
915
00:45:31,854 --> 00:45:33,147
Yeah, I would.
916
00:45:33,772 --> 00:45:35,482
Why dance around?
917
00:45:35,566 --> 00:45:36,984
We're perfect for each other.
918
00:45:38,235 --> 00:45:42,072
I'm glad to hear that.
Oh, here's your salt.
919
00:45:43,073 --> 00:45:44,992
I'm impressed you can still use that.
920
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:48,078
Oh, I know how to shake what I've got.
921
00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:56,253
I've been wanting to do that all night.
922
00:45:58,130 --> 00:45:59,130
Well...
923
00:45:59,256 --> 00:46:01,341
Now, I can get back to my rigatoni.
924
00:46:03,469 --> 00:46:06,096
He sinks right into the moment,
925
00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:08,891
and whatever you throw at him,
926
00:46:08,974 --> 00:46:11,852
he throws right back at you,
and you better be ready.
927
00:46:12,394 --> 00:46:14,104
It's... Oh, he's a joy.
928
00:46:14,855 --> 00:46:17,107
If you're an actor in this town
929
00:46:17,191 --> 00:46:20,986
and you get a chance up close
to see these people work together
930
00:46:21,069 --> 00:46:23,989
and not make it look like work, it was...
931
00:46:24,072 --> 00:46:25,554
I'm getting chills just thinking about it
932
00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:28,118
because I can't imagine
933
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:30,370
how I got lucky enough
to be a part of this.
934
00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:33,123
- So this is my gammy, Annie.
- Pleasure.
935
00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:35,459
Well, hello, there.
936
00:46:35,542 --> 00:46:40,088
Now, do you prefer being called
Margaret or Satan's Mistress?
937
00:46:41,006 --> 00:46:43,050
She is, again,
938
00:46:43,133 --> 00:46:46,595
this sweet sort of lovable character
with an edge,
939
00:46:46,678 --> 00:46:49,097
and we exploited that edge
940
00:46:49,181 --> 00:46:51,517
over and over and over again on that film.
She's a rascal.
941
00:46:51,808 --> 00:46:54,895
Sorry. I'm a bit chesty to begin with,
942
00:46:54,978 --> 00:46:57,439
and I happened to be
knocked up when I wore this.
943
00:46:57,523 --> 00:46:59,024
Oh.
944
00:46:59,107 --> 00:47:02,152
Oh, let's see if we can find your boobs.
945
00:47:02,569 --> 00:47:04,488
Betty really just made that movie.
946
00:47:04,571 --> 00:47:07,115
I really don't think that
that film would have been nearly
947
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:09,535
as successful or as effective
without her presence.
948
00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:11,495
This is like an Easter egg hunt.
949
00:47:12,788 --> 00:47:15,499
Maybe they shrunk up
in the cold Alaskan air.
950
00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:20,921
- Oh, there they are.
- That... Yes, it would be.
951
00:47:21,004 --> 00:47:22,047
Oh.
952
00:47:22,130 --> 00:47:26,927
She's just this sweet,
you know, lovely older woman
953
00:47:27,010 --> 00:47:30,097
who is just beloved
by this whole crew and cast
954
00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:31,620
that everybody
would just do anything for her,
955
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,141
and she gets up to leave,
956
00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:35,644
and everyone's sad
'cause it's her last shot,
957
00:47:35,727 --> 00:47:37,334
and she's just walking
out the door to say goodbye,
958
00:47:37,354 --> 00:47:39,044
and she turns around right in the doorjamb,
959
00:47:39,064 --> 00:47:41,942
and she says,
"I just want everyone here to know
960
00:47:42,317 --> 00:47:46,655
this is the most fun
I've ever had... standing up,"
961
00:47:47,698 --> 00:47:50,450
and then she turns, and, I mean, just...
962
00:47:50,534 --> 00:47:52,494
The woman just kills everyone.
963
00:47:52,578 --> 00:47:54,913
Everybody is just...
spends the rest of the day
964
00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:56,915
at a perfect 90-degree angle laughing.
965
00:47:56,999 --> 00:47:59,209
The crew just loved her, and, I mean,
966
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:01,211
never forgot a line, never...
967
00:48:01,295 --> 00:48:03,589
I mean, she was just everything
968
00:48:03,672 --> 00:48:05,549
that you wanted her to be and more.
969
00:48:05,632 --> 00:48:07,384
I felt very, very lucky.
970
00:48:07,593 --> 00:48:08,969
Caroline, you okay?
971
00:48:09,052 --> 00:48:11,888
Oh, I am, indeed, and thank you again.
972
00:48:11,972 --> 00:48:13,140
Of course.
973
00:48:13,473 --> 00:48:15,767
Okay, so the train is gonna be here
in just a few minutes,
974
00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:18,604
and they're gonna bring your husband
right through that tunnel.
975
00:48:19,771 --> 00:48:21,773
Caroline, you don't have to do a thing.
976
00:48:22,274 --> 00:48:24,818
Just wait like you always do.
977
00:48:25,193 --> 00:48:28,947
The Lost Valentine is a love letter,
978
00:48:29,031 --> 00:48:31,950
like, a generational love letter.
979
00:48:32,034 --> 00:48:34,620
She really had a connection to the piece
980
00:48:34,703 --> 00:48:37,372
and, you know, very much like myself,
981
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:39,583
sort of just loved the love story
982
00:48:39,666 --> 00:48:42,961
and has such an amazing love story
with her husband.
983
00:48:43,045 --> 00:48:45,839
In any scene about the husband
984
00:48:45,922 --> 00:48:49,426
or about that character in the movie,
before and after,
985
00:48:49,509 --> 00:48:52,429
she would always send a kiss up to Allen.
986
00:48:56,391 --> 00:49:01,188
The power of how love can stay
for a very, very, very long time
987
00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:03,774
and sort of grab a hold of you
and not let go.
988
00:49:11,281 --> 00:49:12,199
It was really something
989
00:49:12,282 --> 00:49:14,368
that she wanted to not only
give to the audience,
990
00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:17,621
I think that she wanted to prove
to the audience that, you know,
991
00:49:17,746 --> 00:49:19,956
she wasn't funny all the time, you know?
992
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,043
Um, but I also think for Allen,
it was really...
993
00:49:23,126 --> 00:49:26,338
It was sort of... that's kind of
where she went in her heart
994
00:49:26,421 --> 00:49:29,216
and her mind, and it was very touching.
995
00:49:47,901 --> 00:49:49,069
It was very slow.
996
00:49:49,152 --> 00:49:52,989
It was a very sweet, sort of soft moment,
997
00:49:53,073 --> 00:49:55,242
and she was just brilliant.
998
00:50:07,003 --> 00:50:08,422
- Hi, Betty.
- Hi!
999
00:50:08,505 --> 00:50:11,174
- It's so good to see you!
- Oh, thank you.
1000
00:50:11,258 --> 00:50:14,010
- So happy you could come up.
- Thank you for letting me come.
1001
00:50:14,094 --> 00:50:16,680
We've been telling Bam Bam
all week his BFF is coming.
1002
00:50:16,763 --> 00:50:18,306
- Oh, really?
- Yeah.
1003
00:50:18,390 --> 00:50:20,475
Well, that's my life.
1004
00:50:20,559 --> 00:50:22,602
The reason I work, the reason I do anything
1005
00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:25,021
is because of my love of animals.
1006
00:50:25,522 --> 00:50:27,899
She's enjoying his love right now.
1007
00:50:27,983 --> 00:50:29,693
She says all the time,
1008
00:50:29,776 --> 00:50:31,820
"I have to keep doing my acting job
1009
00:50:31,903 --> 00:50:35,490
so I can support my animal causes."
1010
00:50:35,657 --> 00:50:39,035
She truly believes that the animal kingdom
1011
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:41,705
is well worth taking care of.
1012
00:50:41,997 --> 00:50:43,874
Well, what is that?
1013
00:50:43,957 --> 00:50:45,834
And with Betty, it's been constant,
1014
00:50:45,917 --> 00:50:47,669
hundred percent, all the time.
1015
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:49,629
She doesn't call herself an activist.
1016
00:50:49,713 --> 00:50:52,758
She's an advocate,
and there's a difference.
1017
00:50:52,841 --> 00:50:54,217
How's that?
1018
00:50:54,301 --> 00:50:56,928
Is that good? Is that good?
1019
00:50:57,304 --> 00:50:59,244
Let me begin by telling you that I think
1020
00:50:59,264 --> 00:51:04,352
Betty White can charm the savage beast.
1021
00:51:06,521 --> 00:51:10,108
I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet.
1022
00:51:10,442 --> 00:51:14,321
Betty always treats people with dignity
1023
00:51:14,404 --> 00:51:16,990
and respect and charm.
1024
00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:20,744
She has a far closer relationship
to animals than she does to people.
1025
00:51:20,827 --> 00:51:22,476
You were telling me a story a long time ago
1026
00:51:22,496 --> 00:51:25,123
about how you used to go
backpacking with your family...
1027
00:51:25,207 --> 00:51:26,646
- In the Sierras.
- ...in the Sierras.
1028
00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:28,043
Did you ever see bears there?
1029
00:51:28,126 --> 00:51:30,045
'Cause there were probably
a bigger population.
1030
00:51:30,128 --> 00:51:32,088
- Only black bears.
- Only black bears, yeah.
1031
00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:33,882
But we'd go to Yellowstone,
1032
00:51:33,965 --> 00:51:36,426
and that's where you see the old grizzly.
1033
00:51:36,885 --> 00:51:39,095
And every summer,
they would go into the High Sierras
1034
00:51:39,179 --> 00:51:41,556
and literally live on the land.
1035
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,143
We'd pack into the High Sierras,
just the three of us,
1036
00:51:45,227 --> 00:51:47,312
and be up there for three weeks, all alone.
1037
00:51:47,395 --> 00:51:50,357
We'd never see another human being.
1038
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,359
That's when you see wildlife.
1039
00:51:54,361 --> 00:51:55,779
That's when you see...
1040
00:51:55,862 --> 00:51:58,406
You can't do this, though, unfortunately.
1041
00:51:58,740 --> 00:51:59,971
Well, you may only get to do it once.
1042
00:51:59,991 --> 00:52:01,640
Yeah, you would do it one time.
1043
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:03,829
- Only once.
- Yeah.
1044
00:52:03,912 --> 00:52:07,207
But moose, you see moose,
and that was exciting.
1045
00:52:07,290 --> 00:52:09,459
I'd go back to school, and they'd say,
1046
00:52:09,543 --> 00:52:10,877
"You were up there with your...
1047
00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:14,047
What did you talk about? What did you do?"
1048
00:52:14,130 --> 00:52:16,216
I said, "You just don't understand."
1049
00:52:16,299 --> 00:52:18,885
We were animal nuts, all three of us.
1050
00:52:18,969 --> 00:52:22,472
I think they were so disappointed
when I was a baby
1051
00:52:22,556 --> 00:52:25,767
that they had a baby.
1052
00:52:25,851 --> 00:52:27,435
They were hoping
1053
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:29,167
- to have a litter.
- Why not a little animal?
1054
00:52:29,187 --> 00:52:31,648
Betty hopefully is going to be remembered
1055
00:52:31,731 --> 00:52:34,651
as a very kind person, a loving person,
1056
00:52:34,734 --> 00:52:38,947
an extremely terrific actress, comedian,
1057
00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:41,783
but I think she really
wants to be remembered
1058
00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:45,078
as one who gave most
of her life to animals.
1059
00:52:45,161 --> 00:52:47,455
- Oh, oh, I know.
- Oh, my goodness.
1060
00:52:56,214 --> 00:52:58,049
You know, some songs
sort of make the rounds.
1061
00:52:58,133 --> 00:52:59,926
They come around just every so often,
1062
00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:02,512
and others just never really go away.
1063
00:53:02,596 --> 00:53:04,756
I guess this one sort of falls
into the latter category
1064
00:53:04,806 --> 00:53:07,058
'cause you hear it just every so often.
1065
00:53:07,684 --> 00:53:10,478
♪ Maybe I'm right ♪
1066
00:53:10,562 --> 00:53:13,064
♪ Maybe I'm wrong ♪
1067
00:53:13,607 --> 00:53:15,525
♪ Maybe I'm weak ♪
1068
00:53:15,609 --> 00:53:18,320
♪ And maybe I'm strong ♪
1069
00:53:18,403 --> 00:53:19,946
♪ But nevertheless ♪
1070
00:53:20,030 --> 00:53:23,909
♪ I'm in love with you... ♪
1071
00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:26,661
She is every woman.
1072
00:53:26,745 --> 00:53:28,455
She doesn't offend.
1073
00:53:28,538 --> 00:53:30,916
She's funny. She's quick.
1074
00:53:31,124 --> 00:53:32,542
She's very smart.
1075
00:53:32,751 --> 00:53:35,378
It's just the magic of Betty White.
Not everybody has that.
1076
00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:37,422
I think people are attracted to that
1077
00:53:37,505 --> 00:53:39,738
because we spend our whole lives
just trying to figure out,
1078
00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:42,093
like, what we really want to do,
1079
00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:44,679
and for Betty, it's entertaining people,
1080
00:53:44,763 --> 00:53:47,974
and she just genuinely feels that way,
and it's infectious.
1081
00:53:48,058 --> 00:53:53,021
Just courage and grace and love of life,
1082
00:53:53,104 --> 00:53:56,232
I think that's the secret to longevity.
1083
00:53:56,441 --> 00:54:01,696
If you pass 70, just look to Betty,
and that's the way to do it.
1084
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:03,949
She twinkles. She does twinkle.
1085
00:54:04,824 --> 00:54:06,326
Oh, she's one of a kind.
1086
00:54:06,910 --> 00:54:11,164
♪ Maybe I'll live a life of regret ♪
1087
00:54:11,748 --> 00:54:13,416
♪ Maybe I'll give ♪
1088
00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:16,211
♪ Much more than I get ♪
1089
00:54:17,295 --> 00:54:23,677
♪ Nevertheless I'm in love with you ♪
1090
00:54:24,260 --> 00:54:28,431
♪ Somehow I knew at a glance
the terrible chance... ♪
1091
00:54:28,515 --> 00:54:30,350
She's just genuine.
1092
00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:32,352
Like, it isn't an act.
1093
00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:34,270
I think her legacy is kindness,
1094
00:54:34,354 --> 00:54:36,898
and just, you know,
there is always a silver lining,
1095
00:54:36,982 --> 00:54:39,067
and she embodies that.
1096
00:54:39,150 --> 00:54:42,195
One of the smartest, funniest, kindest,
1097
00:54:42,278 --> 00:54:44,823
most generous women in a business
1098
00:54:44,906 --> 00:54:49,619
that doesn't normally have
that kind of people in it,
1099
00:54:49,703 --> 00:54:51,913
um, but that's how she'll be remembered.
1100
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,000
♪ ...much more than I'll get ♪
1101
00:54:55,875 --> 00:54:57,961
♪ Nevertheless ♪
1102
00:54:58,044 --> 00:55:05,010
♪ I'm in love with you ♪
1103
00:55:21,067 --> 00:55:24,821
People have been stuck with me for so long,
1104
00:55:24,904 --> 00:55:28,408
and bless their hearts, been so supportive.
1105
00:55:28,491 --> 00:55:33,580
But I am amazed
that I'm still on television.
1106
00:55:33,663 --> 00:55:37,167
They still let me come back,
and I'm not saying that coyly.
1107
00:55:37,250 --> 00:55:40,378
I mean it. It's such a privilege
1108
00:55:40,462 --> 00:55:44,049
to still be able to work in this business.
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