Betty White is no ‘Rose’

Press, 1 September 1986, Page 19

Betty White is no ‘Rose’

“Let’s face it, Rose is a little bit dim,” says Betty White, one of the four stars of the “The Golden Girls.” "To her, life is a romantic musical and she’s waiting around to see how it all turns out” For Betty White herself, there has not been a lot of waiting around in her career. She has won three Emmy Awards, the first two for her portrayal of Sue Anne Nivens, the man-hungry television hostess .on “The • Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Her third Emmy was won three years ago for hosting an American daytime game show called “Just Men!”. White began her television career after an earlier stint in radio. She produced and starred in her own television series, “Life With Elizabeth” in 1953, and subsequently starred in “The Betty White Show” in 1954. An updated version of “The Betty White Show” was made after “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the late seventies and she worked with Rue McClanahan (Blanche in "The Golden Girls”) in the early eighties in a series called “Mama’s Family.”