Death of Betty White, the ultimate survivor of the Craquantes

American actress Betty White has died a few days before her 100th birthday. Return on the career of one of the heroines of the series Crunchy.

Her mischievous smile and sparkling eyes will be missed. American actress and producer Betty White passed away this Friday, December 31. Revealed by the American site TMZ, the sad news was confirmed by his agent and friend Jeff Witjas “Even though Betty was going to be 100, I thought she would live forever”, he declared to People, which devotes its cover to the one who was to celebrate her 100th birthday on January 17th. In France, she is best known for her role in the series Crunchy (The Golden Girls in original version), broadcast on France 3 between 1991 and 1995. In this series, Betty white camped Rose, the ingenuous Minnesota who talked over and over about St Olaf, her hometown. There was also Blanche (Rue McClanahan, disappeared in 2010), southern aristocrat and Atlanta nymphomaniac, Dorothée (Beatrice Arthur, left in 2009), the sage of the gang, and Sophia his mother, played by the irresistible Estelle Getty. (She died in 2008. These funny fifty-year-old ladies shared a house in Miami. A touching and humorous series. From this happy band, Betty white was the last survivor.

Record Emmy Nominations

The four “golden girls” took turns winning an Emmy Award in the “Best Actress in a Comedy Series” category. Betty white was the first to win the trophy, in 1986. Thirty-seven years after taking her first steps on television. Between 1951 and 2012, she was nominated 20 times at the Emmy Awards and awarded six times. A record! The Chicago-born actress has appeared in dozens of TV series and movies, including Malcolm, but also in the cinema: in Storm in Washington, Hell rain and Lake placid, especially. Betty white even had his own daily show in the 1950s.

A committed actress

From 2006 to 2009, Betty white portrayed Anne Douglas in Love glory and beauty, then she got small roles in Ugly Betty, Boston justice … She also camped Dr. Beth Mayer in Bones between 2015 and 2017. Excluding cameras, she was involved in the defense of animals, pro gay marriage, and she had supported Barack Obama during his second campaign, in 2012. On the heart side, the actress was married three times, but did not never had children. His first two marriages, the first to an Air Force pilot, the second to a Hollywood agent, lasted one year and two years respectively. Her third husband, host Lane Allen, met on the game show Password where she was a candidate in 1961, was the right one. She married him two years later, at age 39. After Lane died, who succumbed to stomach cancer in 1981, Betty white never remarried, stating in an interview: “When you’ve had the best, you don’t need anyone else!Just days before her death, she was delighted on Twitter to be on the cover of People and celebrate its hundredth anniversary.