@@m.e.d.7997 me to, but I have been watching a lot of her work since her birthday and I am more thankful that the world was blessed by having her. She was so funny and if you see the "Hot in Cleveland" bloopers the funny was the real her and not an act.
I agree. Angela Lansbury, who is one of my heroines, turns 96 next month (October 2021). Both ladies deserve public recognition (as does a third, Carol Burnett). If they lived in Japan, they would long since have received formal recognition as "Living National Treasures".
The scene in Sue Ann's bedroom was MADE by the fact that everyone kept looking up, fixing their hair, and straightening their clothes, without us ever being SHOWN anything. Whatever they paid the writers on that series, it wasn't enough.
They concealed that room from the studio audience until the lights went on at the beginning of the scene, so they could get a spontaneous reaction. The scene ends with Mary treating herself to a few moments on the vibrating bed.
Only Ted admired himself in SueAnne’s mirrored ceiling while the others were horrified by what it implied about SueAnne. Only Ted was vain and socially vacuous enough to use the mirror to adjust his tie and put his hat ON(!) - indoors in a sick room - in front of his colleagues. I hope Ted and Betty are cracking each other up right now.
I remember the first time seeing the episode where Ted Knight looks up and sees the mirror on the ceiling of Sue Ann Niven's bedroom. It was not only a funny gag, but Ted Knight was so good with his actions letting us know there was a mirror there. On some TV shows, everything just seems to click.
How much did we love Sue Ann Nivens? Only the great Betty White could have created such a wonderful character! Thank you so much for all the fun and wonderful comedy you gave us.
Giving Betty White the role of Sue Ann Nivens was the most brilliant piece of casting in television history, because it was as if her entire career prior to the Mary Tyler Moore Show was a setup that character paid off. I don't think it can possibly be as funny for younger people now as it was at the time, because it was such a complete revelation. I'm sure it's still funny, but it lacks the extra punch it got from the gasp you let out at seeing someone who'd seemed like the literal embodiment of sweetness and light serving pure, delicious evil.
IIRC, they had discussed the casting for that role when the show was created, and were saying to each other, "We have to get someone who isn't just sweet -- sickeningly sweet. Someone like Betty White." So they finally concluded they should just hire her.
I mean it still works for us younger folks in some way, because many of us were introduced to Betty White through the Golden Girls, where she played sweet, naive, good-natured Rose Nylond. So Sue Ann works as a contrast to that as well.
This sucks! Betty White was such a beautiful person who never had an an evil bone in her body. She exuded love, compassion, joy, and made us laugh through good times and bad. I hope she has been reunited with her late husband, Allen. We will miss you Betty.
I can't believe four people passed on from MTM in 2021. It was like a roll call in heaven for all these greats to be together again. Poor Ted was waiting the longest for the others to arrive.
Betty's characters on MTM and The Golden Girls couldn't have been more different. What an amazing talent she is. One of television's great comedic acting stars.
Such a SWEET & giving lady. Once, at the SAG Awards show, I went to shake her hand to tell her how happy I was she won the Lifetime Achievement Award that year, and instead of shaking she took my hand and kissed the back of it!
I'm 55, I'm laughing my ass off! Betty is, was and always will be an amazing talent! Kind, quick, brilliant, generous and loving woman!! A woman ahead of her time! Thank you Betty for ALL the Happy memories ❤
God bless your life Betty White thank you for the laughter and the memories may you Bea Arthur Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan, Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Georgia Engel and Ted Knight Rest In Peace.
R.I.P. Betty White ~ What a shock that she passed away today (12/31/2021) at the age of 99. Only weeks from celebrating her 100th birthday! She was our National Treasure. She blessed us all with her quick humor and her rememberable characters. May she make all the angels and God laugh thunderously and smile brightly in Heaven.
Mrs. Leachman's comment about Sue Ann take up the "darling blonde" position makes a lot of sense as I'm working through Season 6. Season 4's "The Lars Affair" set up Phyllis and Sue Ann as foils, but Sue Ann began to adopt more of Phyllis' brittleness through Season 5 while still evolving into her own character. Really excellent advice and execution.
Rest in Peace True Icon Ms Betty White you have brought us many television memories of each of our lives Rest in Heavenly Peace Golden Girl You will be missed P.s. Thank you for all the laughs and getting me through some tough times in my home
in kindergarten or 1st grade, back in the 70s, i remember telling my teacher that she looked like Betty White. i can't remember what her response was, but Betty's death made me realize that she was one of my first pop-culture references, along with Cher and Geraldine/Flip Wilson.
damn.. lost Ed, Gavin, Cloirs and Betty all in the same year. I was too young at the time, but always remember my dad watching this show and laughing so hard.
Three of the last four Mary Tyler Moore Show Alumni passed away this year. Cloris Leachman in Jan. 2021, Gavin Macleod in May 2021, and Ed Asner in Aug. 2021. Other alumni who had previously passed away were Ted Knight in Aug. 1986, Mary Tyler Moore in Jan. 2017, Georgia Engel in Apr. 2019, and Valerie Harper in Aug. 2019. Betty White is now the last surviving member of the original 8 MTMS alumni. How sad.🙁🙁🙁
Not sad, just life. Some people have shorter lives -- I've known a number of them. Others, like my grandma who died at 94 a few weeks ago, and her sisters still alive at 96 and 97, manage to keep going beyond the average span.
Murray was sitting at his desk (as always). Sue Ann came into the news room. She passed her hand over his bald head and she said, "I wish I could get my kitchen floor so shiny."
Any character that she played was just fabulous. I liked it when she would be on The Carol Burnett Show and they would do the family skit and she would play Eunice Higgins sister Ellen.
And she's still going strong! My favorite bit with her was when she auditioned for the part of female anchor on the show, and she read a horrible news piece of innocent villagers being swept away by a mudslide, then smiled and gave helpful hints about how to get stubborn mud stains out of a cobblestone road......
LOL...I remember that. It's a tragic news story and she was so perky and upbeat, while giving out helpful homemaker hints...hilarious! :D Here is a link to that video...enjoy! ruclips.net/video/_27ztK4hCB4/видео.html
I saw that episode when it first aired; it was hilarious. I never forgot it and after forty years I can’t think of Betty White without thinking of that episode. I am now living in Germany; they love Betty here too!
My personal favorite was then Mary and Murray were co-producing the news show. One was working on a story about the rising costs of pig slop, while the other was doing Sue Ann's restaurant review (I can't remember who had which story). The problem was that each one told the editor to run their story first, so the video and audio of the stories got switched - when Ted was talking about pig slop prices, the video showed Sue Ann eating...and when he introduces Sue Ann's review spot, up comes a photo of a sow. I couldn't breathe, I was laughing so hard.
Thank you for posting Betty White one of the funniest comics male and female turned the big 99 on Sunday 1.17.2021 HAPPY BD Betty White. Such a wonderful woman nay human being her love of life, making people LOL (what greater gift) but her love for Animals surely she is due a medal. She has been an ambassador of Laughter all of her life and so sad she has not been recognize for that Thank You BETTY WHITE and GOD BLESS YOU Pax+
I was a kid when this was on TV, and it was must-watch in our house as in so many others. Sue Ann was such an unapologetic barracuda -- she was awesome!
Plant Talk (Rhoda, knocking on Mary's door) Hi Kid. What are you doing? Mary (pruning plant) Remember when Sue Anne told me to feed my plant coffee grounds? Rhoda: Yeah Mary: It looks sick. Rhoda: Well, what do you expect? It probably hasn't slept in weeks.
She has played so many roles in her 80 years of television. ( not an exaggeration. the consistent work really began in 1949) I think this role represented her best work.
This role really turned her acting career around - she had done some sitcoms in the 1950's (and was nominated for an Emmy in 1951) but during the 60's she was mostly appearing on TV as herself in host or spokesperson-type gigs, or on game shows as a celebrity contestant. She was still in the public eye - I remember seeing her hosting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade shows with Lone Greene - but her TV acting was limited to a few guest spots here and there throughout the decade. When she got the part of Sue Ann in 1973 she really ran with it and proved what a terrific actress she was, and after that she never stopped getting roles. AND she was Emmy-nominated 20 more times, and won 5 of them.
@@johndipinto8816 Betty is insirational to me because she showed you can get even better as you get older. Her greatest successes came after she was 50. I like that. The show ain’t over until it’s over.
@@m.e.d.7997 Can you believe that by the end of Golden Girls she was 70? She looked even better by the end of Gikde Girls than she did on MTM. Talk about aging backwards!
When I think about her and Alan's relationship, I always think of that episode of The Golden Girls where she's saying goodbye to Charlie in her kitchen in St. Olaf. I always feel like she was channeling her feelings for Alan when she filmed that scene. If I ever get married, I want a relationship like theirs was. They genuinely loved and adored each other, and seemed like they had fun too
@@heatherr0420 IIRC, Betty said that scene was one of the most difficult she ever did, along with the time Rose explained to Dorothy how Charlie died while they were making love. He had a heart attack, and he wanted her to dress him before the EMT's showed up. ruclips.net/video/w0Y51aqkynY/видео.html
Met Betty briefly when I was in the audience of a short-lived daytime game show JUST MEN. She was amazing. Came over to us and said "Are you all having a good time? If so, we'll soon change that!"...hahaha
I was a little kid when the Golden girls was on the air, so of course I wasn't even born when the Mary Tyler Moore show was on. I didn't discover MTM until I was an adult, so it was especially delightful to see The same woman that played sweet, goofy Rose Nylund play treacly, conniving, sexually aggressive Sue Ann Niven.
What's even more remarkable is that Betty was to play the role of Blanche but at the last minute they switched the roles between her and Rue and well, the rest is history. Betty has often said that no one could have played Blanche the way that Rue had done and visa versa.. it was perfect.. and the fact that they were good friends also helped.
@@richiejohnson thanks for responding. I discovered the mtm a few years ago and absolutely loved it! I wish they'd show it on metv at night instead of green acres and gomer pyle (I mean really, green acres and gomer pyle??!) But I was amazed with betty white on mtm just as i was with golden girls
@@amandawhisnant622 Rue was on Maude with Dorothy (can't remember her real name at the moment), and her character was a bit like Rose. which may have been another reason why they didn't mind switching
RIP Betty White. You were a pioneer, icon, excellent actress, awesome human being, and entertainer! Thanks for making us laugh and for all the wonderful memories
MTM Show....one of the best shows ever. Thanks to it all being perfect...idea, casting, locale, writers, etc and the ever perfect Betty White. What a great show. Buy it on DVD and enjoy it. Much love to you Betty White. There are lots of people we would have traded to KEEP you but y'all aren't bound for the same place. Thanks for all the love and laughs
I am thinking many younger people will start to watch the MTM show that never would have. It may enjoy a second round of fame around 50 years later. We all watched back in the day on Saturday's and it became like family.
Betty is an Icon and all of these shows are epic ones. I don't think we will ever see anything like them again in our lifetimes. Just such amazing actors and writers. Always so funny. 🤣😍
Her beautiful pink chiffon bedroom with flowers and lace, with a mirror on the ceiling! Sue Ann Nivens was a lady but a naughty lady in her pretty bedroom lol.. too funny!
It was great to see MTM this past weekend on MeTV's tribute to Ed Asner.I forgot how great this sitcom was and is.Allen must've been so proud of her.She's the sole cast member of two sitcoms,this one and The Golden Girls,along with The Golden Palace (1992-93 CBS).I only wish that's a someday MeTV could put it on their schedule.
@@bkynbiker19 She also gets on the bed -- which vibrated -- and turned it on. XD Also, if I remember correctly, her bedroom had six chairs - three on each side -- and they were all facing the bed.
@@TarotMage You're right of course. First she gets on the bed and turns it on, then after a few seconds hops off it and before dashing out, fleetingly stops to fix her hair in the ceiling mirror
I like the one show where Murray picked her up slammed her ass down on that wedding cake. Then she said it could use a little bit more vanilla. Will miss you Betty White and Gavin McLeod R.I.P. to you both.🌹🌹
Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day And suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it With each glance and every little movement you show it , no need to waste it. (You can have the town), why don't you take it? You're gonna make it after all.
You are sadly correct. She outlived all of her MTM co-stars as well as all 3 of her Golden Girls costars, and I do believe in both cases, Betty was the oldest.
Someone once asked Allen Ludden how much like Betty was to the character Sue Ann. His answer: "They're exactly alike, only Betty can't cook!" Sums it up perfectly...
Shutting the oven door with one knee was one of the funniest things I have seen on tv ever!
Happy Birthday to America's most golden of girls. We love you.
Sue Ann Nivens...a delicious character played so well by the late Betty White! Shows you she can be the opposite of Rose Nyland❤
I’m so grateful for Betty White. She was truly a national treasure…a world treasure. May she rest in peace and love. 🌹🙏🏻❤️☮️
Feel so sad she is gone
@@m.e.d.7997 me to, but I have been watching a lot of her work since her birthday and I am more thankful that the world was blessed by having her. She was so funny and if you see the "Hot in Cleveland" bloopers the funny was the real her and not an act.
Rest In Peace
I think Betty White's 100th birthday in January 2022 should be a national holiday! She's is America's tv icon!
Jim Ryan What a great idea. I hope they do something for her. She deserves it. 🥰🥰🥰
She has been, is, and I hope for many more years to come a national treasure.
@@willmack5909 I couldn't agree with you more. Amazing lady. 😊
I've been waiting on that day.
I agree. Angela Lansbury, who is one of my heroines, turns 96 next month (October 2021). Both ladies deserve public recognition (as does a third, Carol Burnett). If they lived in Japan, they would long since have received formal recognition as "Living National Treasures".
What a wonderful character!
The scene in Sue Ann's bedroom was MADE by the fact that everyone kept looking up, fixing their hair, and straightening their clothes, without us ever being SHOWN anything. Whatever they paid the writers on that series, it wasn't enough.
They concealed that room from the studio audience until the lights went on at the beginning of the scene, so they could get a spontaneous reaction. The scene ends with Mary treating herself to a few moments on the vibrating bed.
So funny !
Only Ted admired himself in SueAnne’s mirrored ceiling while the others were horrified by what it implied about SueAnne. Only Ted was vain and socially vacuous enough to use the mirror to adjust his tie and put his hat ON(!) - indoors in a sick room - in front of his colleagues. I hope Ted and Betty are cracking each other up right now.
"Did you decorate it yourself or have a sex fiend come in?" Such a great line!!
It reminds me of Golden Girls
Happy 99th, Betty White
Jan 17 2021
Ditto. And With warm regards.
Joan Rivers used to joke about Betty White. Betty White was so popular in Hollywood her nickname was " Bend Over Betty." 😆
I remember the first time seeing the episode where Ted Knight looks up and sees the mirror on the ceiling of Sue Ann Niven's bedroom. It was not only a funny gag, but Ted Knight was so good with his actions letting us know there was a mirror there. On some TV shows, everything just seems to click.
Betty White is a class act.
And she was a sensational celebrity partner on game shows such as Password & Pyramid.
Everyone on that show was excellent.
How much did we love Sue Ann Nivens? Only the great Betty White could have created such a wonderful character! Thank you so much for all the fun and wonderful comedy you gave us.
She is my favorite!
Sue Ann ❤
The Lars Affair, her TMTMS debut, is my favorite episode. Sue Ann and Phyllis both gave master classes in comedy.
Giving Betty White the role of Sue Ann Nivens was the most brilliant piece of casting in television history, because it was as if her entire career prior to the Mary Tyler Moore Show was a setup that character paid off. I don't think it can possibly be as funny for younger people now as it was at the time, because it was such a complete revelation. I'm sure it's still funny, but it lacks the extra punch it got from the gasp you let out at seeing someone who'd seemed like the literal embodiment of sweetness and light serving pure, delicious evil.
IIRC, they had discussed the casting for that role when the show was created, and were saying to each other, "We have to get someone who isn't just sweet -- sickeningly sweet. Someone like Betty White." So they finally concluded they should just hire her.
She was really great in that role lol
YES - like casting Barbara Billingsley as the White Lady who spoke Jive in Airplane! Just a few years later XD.
@@jcortese3300 I thought Mary Tyler Moore suggested her.
I mean it still works for us younger folks in some way, because many of us were introduced to Betty White through the Golden Girls, where she played sweet, naive, good-natured Rose Nylond. So Sue Ann works as a contrast to that as well.
Crying and laughing at the same time after watching these clips. She was such a great woman.
me too. kinda embarrassing for this old guy
@@swapshots4427 aw...don't be...Betty would say thanks 🧡
So sad.
@@m.e.d.7997 Be happy she was here, and left us much video to watch for the rest of our lives 🧡😊
@@kelseymathias3881 True. It will just take me a while to get there. She was inspirational.
She gets brilliant writing in this show, but how she brought it home was just amazing.
Yeah, the writing was great but she was able to deliver it with the best acting and timing. RIP Betty.
This sucks! Betty White was such a beautiful person who never had an an evil bone in her body. She exuded love, compassion, joy, and made us laugh through good times and bad. I hope she has been reunited with her late husband, Allen. We will miss you Betty.
I can't believe four people passed on from MTM in 2021. It was like a roll call in heaven for all these greats to be together again. Poor Ted was waiting the longest for the others to arrive.
Betty's characters on MTM and The Golden Girls couldn't have been more different. What an amazing talent she is. One of television's great comedic acting stars.
She's now also the last surviving main actor of both shows.
@@jandreidrn I didn't realize that Gavin Macleod had died earlier this year. I knew about Ed Asner dying quite recently. Sad that they're all gone.
Such a SWEET & giving lady. Once, at the SAG Awards show, I went to shake her hand to tell her how happy I was she won the Lifetime Achievement Award that year, and instead of shaking she took my hand and kissed the back of it!
You lucky bastard!!! The closest one could come to being blessed
Humble and sweet. What a lovely story.
great story,i love to meet famous people too
@@eddygsmusicworld1708
I met Daryl Hall…he was a creep.
@@EYE_GOTCHA not too surprising
I'm 55, I'm laughing my ass off! Betty is, was and always will be an amazing talent! Kind, quick, brilliant, generous and loving woman!! A woman ahead of her time! Thank you Betty for ALL the Happy memories ❤
Yep. This one laid me out.
God bless your life Betty White thank you for the laughter and the memories may you Bea Arthur Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan, Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Georgia Engel and Ted Knight Rest In Peace.
Happy belated birthday Ms betty white. 99 years young God bless this clip shows my favorite sue Ann's sister. You are one of a kind
R.I.P. Betty White ~ What a shock that she passed away today (12/31/2021) at the age of 99. Only weeks from celebrating her 100th birthday! She was our National Treasure. She blessed us all with her quick humor and her rememberable characters. May she make all the angels and God laugh thunderously and smile brightly in Heaven.
Rocket Queen 71 : Correction. She was a Legendary National Treasure who will always be respected and idolized.
@@herondelatorre4023
Stop correcting people over trivial things
@Beach Boys Without correction how can people understand and learn from mistakes ????
@@herondelatorre4023
Nobody needs your nonsense, nitpicker
Mrs. Leachman's comment about Sue Ann take up the "darling blonde" position makes a lot of sense as I'm working through Season 6. Season 4's "The Lars Affair" set up Phyllis and Sue Ann as foils, but Sue Ann began to adopt more of Phyllis' brittleness through Season 5 while still evolving into her own character. Really excellent advice and execution.
Rest in Peace True Icon Ms Betty White you have brought us many television memories of each of our lives Rest in Heavenly Peace Golden Girl You will be missed P.s. Thank you for all the laughs and getting me through some tough times in my home
The world will miss Betty White.
There is a big MTM Show reunion in heaven!
in kindergarten or 1st grade, back in the 70s, i remember telling my teacher that she looked like Betty White. i can't remember what her response was, but Betty's death made me realize that she was one of my first pop-culture references, along with Cher and Geraldine/Flip Wilson.
Betty has a bawdy side... which was suppressed for a long time. Good insightful comment.
She hosted SNL.
Betty even got cuter looking as she got older
Did she get hurt when she got cuter?
YES I FOUND HER VERY SEXY WHEN SHE WAS ON THE SHOW.
She certainly was adorable.
damn.. lost Ed, Gavin, Cloirs and Betty all in the same year. I was too young at the time, but always remember my dad watching this show and laughing so hard.
Ted Baxter looks at his reflection in the ceiling mirror😆👍
That smiling scream is pure comedy gold. XD
Betty White’s husband once quipped in an interview that the only difference between her and Sue Ann was that “Betty can’t cook.”
RIP Cloris Leachman
Three of the last four Mary Tyler Moore Show Alumni passed away this year. Cloris Leachman in Jan. 2021, Gavin Macleod in May 2021, and Ed Asner in Aug. 2021. Other alumni who had previously passed away were Ted Knight in Aug. 1986, Mary Tyler Moore in Jan. 2017, Georgia Engel in Apr. 2019, and Valerie Harper in Aug. 2019. Betty White is now the last surviving member of the original 8 MTMS alumni. How sad.🙁🙁🙁
Same as Golden Girls. She is the last remaining cast
@@ToniaAlex13 Yes, how very true and sad.🙁🙁🙁
Even more ironic still, Betty was the oldest one of the 8 I do believe.
@@willmack5909 That's true. Betty White was also the oldest of the cast of The Golden Girls.
Not sad, just life. Some people have shorter lives -- I've known a number of them. Others, like my grandma who died at 94 a few weeks ago, and her sisters still alive at 96 and 97, manage to keep going beyond the average span.
This show was great and Betty White is awesome...but boy do I love Ted! He cracks me up every time.
Always loved the interplay between Sue Ann and Murray. They always left me wanting more, no pun intended.
Murray was sitting at his desk (as always). Sue Ann came into the news room. She passed her hand over his bald head and she said, "I wish I could get my kitchen floor so shiny."
@@stanleycostello9610 Another time she passed Murray, stopped. looked down at his head and fixed her makeup like she was looking into a mirror. XD
One of the great enemies in sitcom history. Up there with Fred Sanford and Aunt Esther.
Any character that she played was just fabulous. I liked it when she would be on The Carol Burnett Show and they would do the family skit and she would play Eunice Higgins sister Ellen.
She had incredible acting range.
Betty White is a true acting/comedic legend. God bless her.
And she's still going strong!
My favorite bit with her was when she auditioned for the part of female anchor on the show, and she read a horrible news piece of innocent villagers being swept away by a mudslide, then smiled and gave helpful hints about how to get stubborn mud stains out of a cobblestone road......
LOL...I remember that. It's a tragic news story and she was so perky and upbeat, while giving out helpful homemaker hints...hilarious! :D Here is a link to that video...enjoy! ruclips.net/video/_27ztK4hCB4/видео.html
@@willyboy6126 , wow, thanks, I appreciate it!
I saw that episode when it first aired; it was hilarious. I never forgot it and after forty years I can’t think of Betty White without thinking of that episode. I am now living in Germany; they love Betty here too!
@@maskedmarvyl4774 You're very welcome : )
My personal favorite was then Mary and Murray were co-producing the news show. One was working on a story about the rising costs of pig slop, while the other was doing Sue Ann's restaurant review (I can't remember who had which story). The problem was that each one told the editor to run their story first, so the video and audio of the stories got switched - when Ted was talking about pig slop prices, the video showed Sue Ann eating...and when he introduces Sue Ann's review spot, up comes a photo of a sow.
I couldn't breathe, I was laughing so hard.
Betty playes the best snob. Hands down
Her and Jasmine Guy as Whitley Gilbert from A Different World.
Thank you for posting
Betty White one of the funniest comics male and female turned the big 99 on Sunday 1.17.2021 HAPPY BD Betty White.
Such a wonderful woman nay human being her love of life, making people LOL (what greater gift) but her love for Animals surely she is due a medal. She has been an ambassador of Laughter all of her life and so sad she has not been recognize for that
Thank You BETTY WHITE and GOD BLESS YOU
Pax+
Totally agree with you...and Happy Birthday to a genuine, sweet and super funny woman! Go for 100+, dear Betty! :D
She's my favorite character on that show.
IMO she saved the show when Rhoda left.
I was a kid when this was on TV, and it was must-watch in our house as in so many others. Sue Ann was such an unapologetic barracuda -- she was awesome!
Sue Ann did that scream they had me hollering laughing like crazy
The bedroom scene was 😆 hilarious, I remembered it when it first aired. Hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha 😆.
Plant Talk
(Rhoda, knocking on Mary's door) Hi Kid. What are you doing?
Mary (pruning plant) Remember when Sue Anne told me to feed my plant coffee grounds?
Rhoda: Yeah
Mary: It looks sick.
Rhoda: Well, what do you expect? It probably hasn't slept in weeks.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Betty white was the best playing sue Anne her best role.
I’d say this and Rose Nylund
I agree. I love Sue Ann the best out of all Betty White’s characters.
I think Rose Nylund is her best role! Sweet, funny and naive
Actually her best role is Rose Nylund with Sue Ann coming in second :)
I think I was perhaps 14 when I first saw this bit, and I laughed so hard I gave myself a cramp.
The angels get to watch MTM Show now 🧡
Love Betty and she loves animals and I lover her even more for that.
Betty did shnook well. 😄
That oven door kick..omg
😅
When she'd pet Murray's head..and that bedroom!
I loved this gal.
Will miss her forever.
I hope she just went in her sleep peacefully. Haven’t heard of her being
sick. Just her time. Rest in laughter Betty 😰😂
She has played so many roles in her 80 years of television. ( not an exaggeration. the consistent work really began in 1949) I think this role represented her best work.
This role really turned her acting career around - she had done some sitcoms in the 1950's (and was nominated for an Emmy in 1951) but during the 60's she was mostly appearing on TV as herself in host or spokesperson-type gigs, or on game shows as a celebrity contestant. She was still in the public eye - I remember seeing her hosting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade shows with Lone Greene - but her TV acting was limited to a few guest spots here and there throughout the decade. When she got the part of Sue Ann in 1973 she really ran with it and proved what a terrific actress she was, and after that she never stopped getting roles. AND she was Emmy-nominated 20 more times, and won 5 of them.
@@johndipinto8816 Betty is insirational to me because she showed you can get even better as you get older. Her greatest successes came after she was 50. I like that. The show ain’t over until it’s over.
@@m.e.d.7997 Can you believe that by the end of Golden Girls she was 70? She looked even better by the end of Gikde Girls than she did on MTM. Talk about aging backwards!
Betty White, a beautiful woman inside and out! What a great role model for all women and girls everywhere! Truly a gem!
Allen Ludden was once asked if Sue Ann Nivens and Betty were at all alike. Allen responded, “yes, but Betty can’t cook!”🤣
When I think about her and Alan's relationship, I always think of that episode of The Golden Girls where she's saying goodbye to Charlie in her kitchen in St. Olaf. I always feel like she was channeling her feelings for Alan when she filmed that scene. If I ever get married, I want a relationship like theirs was. They genuinely loved and adored each other, and seemed like they had fun too
Johnny Carson - Betty White is half way between Mother Theresa and a call girl.
@@heatherr0420 I've always thought that too. (I married and doing the best I can to channel her. Helps when my guy is also an Alan White.)
@@heatherr0420 IIRC, Betty said that scene was one of the most difficult she ever did, along with the time Rose explained to Dorothy how Charlie died while they were making love. He had a heart attack, and he wanted her to dress him before the EMT's showed up. ruclips.net/video/w0Y51aqkynY/видео.html
@@seattlegirl2077 🤣🤣🤣
Met Betty briefly when I was in the audience of a short-lived daytime game show JUST MEN. She was amazing. Came over to us and said "Are you all having a good time? If so, we'll soon change that!"...hahaha
This is a comedic and television comedy icon. One of the comedy’s greatest women.
Betty reminds me of my Norwegian grandma from Minnesota, especially on "Golden Girls".
walk on by Pat Priest from 'The Munsters👍
I was a little kid when the Golden girls was on the air, so of course I wasn't even born when the Mary Tyler Moore show was on. I didn't discover MTM until I was an adult, so it was especially delightful to see The same woman that played sweet, goofy Rose Nylund play treacly, conniving, sexually aggressive Sue Ann Niven.
I feel the same way as you do! I'm 44!
@@amandawhisnant622 71 here. We used to just call MTM "The Show "
What's even more remarkable is that Betty was to play the role of Blanche but at the last minute they switched the roles between her and Rue and well, the rest is history. Betty has often said that no one could have played Blanche the way that Rue had done and visa versa.. it was perfect.. and the fact that they were good friends also helped.
@@richiejohnson thanks for responding. I discovered the mtm a few years ago and absolutely loved it! I wish they'd show it on metv at night instead of green acres and gomer pyle (I mean really, green acres and gomer pyle??!) But I was amazed with betty white on mtm just as i was with golden girls
@@amandawhisnant622 Rue was on Maude with Dorothy (can't remember her real name at the moment), and her character was a bit like Rose. which may have been another reason why they didn't mind switching
Kind, generous, bawdy, humane, insightful and utterly genuine. There are over 300m Americans and she is my absolute unequivocal favourite!
This show had some powerful women..The writers sure knew what they had.. It was the 70s..Brilliant..One of the best ever..
she was brilliant
You gave us so much laughter and joy, a true Queen of Comedy. Enjoy Heaven😇🌹
RIP Betty White. You were a pioneer, icon, excellent actress, awesome human being, and entertainer! Thanks for making us laugh and for all the wonderful memories
Betty White doesn’t die - EVER. It’s astounding.
Sue Ann Nivens doesn't work without Betty White. That's how talented she was.
MTM Show....one of the best shows ever. Thanks to it all being perfect...idea, casting, locale, writers, etc and the ever perfect Betty White. What a great show. Buy it on DVD and enjoy it. Much love to you Betty White. There are lots of people we would have traded to KEEP you but y'all aren't bound for the same place. Thanks for all the love and laughs
I am thinking many younger people will start to watch the MTM show that never would have. It may enjoy a second round of fame around 50 years later. We all watched back in the day on Saturday's and it became like family.
My favorite character of hers!
We love ya, Betty!
betty white is so amazing
Betty is an Icon and all of these shows are epic ones. I don't
think we will ever see anything like them again in our lifetimes.
Just such amazing actors and writers. Always so funny. 🤣😍
Her beautiful pink chiffon bedroom with flowers and lace, with a mirror on the ceiling! Sue Ann Nivens was a lady but a naughty lady in her pretty bedroom lol.. too funny!
Loved Betty as Sue Ann. Betty was a great lady ❤
It was great to see MTM this past weekend on MeTV's tribute to Ed Asner.I forgot how great this sitcom was and is.Allen must've been so proud of her.She's the sole cast member of two sitcoms,this one and The Golden Girls,along with The Golden Palace (1992-93 CBS).I only wish that's a someday MeTV could put it on their schedule.
LMAO at Ted checking himself out in Sue Ann's mirror on the ceiling.
I laughed so hard when I saw that, I remember watching that back in the 1970s, and yes I am that old.
Even better is the brief bit at the end when Mary is leaving the room and stops fleetingly to look up and adjust her hair
@@bkynbiker19 She also gets on the bed -- which vibrated -- and turned it on. XD
Also, if I remember correctly, her bedroom had six chairs - three on each side -- and they were all facing the bed.
@@TarotMage You're right of course. First she gets on the bed and turns it on, then after a few seconds hops off it and before dashing out, fleetingly stops to fix her hair in the ceiling mirror
God bless this legend 99 years young still kicking she's right up there with Lucey Ball
RIP Betty White. You brought so much joy and laughter to so many people.
I like the one show where Murray picked her up slammed her ass down on that wedding cake. Then she said it could use a little bit more vanilla. Will miss you Betty White and Gavin McLeod R.I.P. to you both.🌹🌹
It's really going to "HURT" when she's no longer with us.🥰
She'll always be with us, just like all of the other legends who are no longer of this world, take heart :)
That's Marilyn Munster (Pat Priest) as Sue Ann's sister!
Rest in comedy, Betty! Thanks for all the laughs
Rest in peace and thank you for the laughter.
Now that actress that played Georgette? She really is made of spun sugar and showers of fairy dust!
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day
And suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
, no need to waste it.
(You can have the town), why don't you take it?
You're gonna make it after all.
Betty White has done so many different types, she can do anything.
Love you MS. Betty White 👍👍
I think, as of September 2021, that Betty White is the only one alive from the show
You are sadly correct. She outlived all of her MTM co-stars as well as all 3 of her Golden Girls costars, and I do believe in both cases, Betty was the oldest.
R.I.P. Betty White (1922-2021).
Rip Betty White (and the rest of one of my favorite shows)! 🙏 Betty was truly one of a kind! Broke the mold... 😢 Miss them all!
She was great in MTM show, I believe her characters after were modeled after Sue Ann. Ted Knight was a riot, too. Have fun with Allen, Betty ! ❤❤
She was so funny
Love her......
You will be missed Betty!!
Betty's work ethic is where I want to be everything I do
Someone once asked Allen Ludden how much like Betty was to the character Sue Ann. His answer: "They're exactly alike, only Betty can't cook!" Sums it up perfectly...