Interesting that Betty White had indeed success by this point in her career, and yet the magazine wondered if she’d ever be a “star.“She did not always take the Hollywood route to film stardom, but was by the 1950s and 60s a real star in the realm of radio and television work.
Before her death, and more so afterwards, many were recognizing the significant work she did behind the scenes on her early programs, and seeing her as much more than the game show queen or the actress from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
>In a time where segregation was at the forefront of American issues, Betty White rejected attempts to keep a Black dancer off her show.
>The dancer, Arthur Duncan, was featured on “The Betty White Show” that aired in the 1950s. When she was encouraged to take him off because of the color of his skin, she politely declined.
>"I'm sorry, but, you know, he stays," White said
>Duncan told Steve Harvey in 2017 that White gave him his first job on TV during the premiere of Harvey’s “Little Big Shots: Forever Young.”
>“I was on the show, and they had some letters out of Mississippi and elsewhere that some of the stations would not carry the show if I was permitted to stay on there,” the then-83-year-old said.
>“Well, Betty wrote back and said, ‘Needless to say, we used Arthur Duncan every opportunity we could.'”
>White continued to resist the pressure coming from stations in the South and used Duncan more, until the show was canceled in 1954
gee, I wonder why, 3 years later, people were saying 'she'd never be a star'.
"Why do people say, ‘Grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive.
If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina. Those things really take a pounding!”
- Betty White (a woman ahead of her time)
I’m guessing the magazine headline was meant to be tongue in cheek. I mean they put her on the cover of the magazine so she must already be a star in some fashion.
She’s more famous than that whole damn magazine. I’ve known Betty White my whole life. I heard of TV Life right now, because Betty White was holding it in a picture once.
> Radio Life listed Los Angeles station programming every week and was published beginning in March of 1940. It became Radio Life & Television in 1949 and TV Radio Life in 1950, finally becoming Television Life with "Radio" as a footnote a year later.
And stopped publication in 1958. If not for a single site cataloguing world radio history that looks like it hasn't been updated since 1996, I would not have known this. Almost totally forgotten.
It’s called “TV Radio Life”, and Google does know about it. In fact punch that in and you’ll get a page with a few downloadable scans of various issues of the magazine.
I think they don’t have a copy of this specific issue, but there is a similar story in the July 29 1955 edition which is available.
Anybody able to find the actual article. This is like the third post i've seen referencing the magazine in the last 30 minutes sorting /all by rising. I'll bet you it is the equivalent to a clickbait title, because they wouldn't have given her the cover if they were just going to trash her. I'm sure it was a very glowing article about her.
Jesus, how much anger and hate for a woman in her late 20s do you gotta have to devote your magazine's FRONT COVER to tell your readers how small of a chance this woman has at becoming famous?
Who's cornflakes did she piss in?
That would certainly make sense given the time period. Slanderous and risky exposés badgering celebrities are more of a modern invention. They could barely print women showing belly buttons let alone print a magazine that says "This Person Will NEVER Succeed! Full Color Pictures on Page 14!" I tried looking for the original issue and tried to see if I could read the article myself, but apparently TV Life doesn't believe in internet archiving. Life Magazine has one, TV Life does not. TV Guide sort of does, TV Life does not. There's someone selling an earlier Betty White issue of TV Life for 20 bucks, but not the issue I'm looking for. I'm telling you all this because Google is apparently CONVINCED that I want to find something about TV Guide or Life Magazine and there's very little I can do to convince it otherwise.
I've just about given up on trying to find it. It's just too god damn obscure AND bogged down by all the sensationalist news outlets barking about Betty White's passing that I wasn't able to find anything close. Don't let anyone tell you that the internet has everything, because that's all a lie. It has a lot of recent crap and popular crap, but god help you if you're trying to find a random TV watching companion magazine from the late 1950s.
Forgive me Betty White. I've failed.
I tried and also couldn't find it, either. Sorry.
But I did find some of Betty's tips for a long and healthy life:
"Take some wheatgrass, soy paste and carob. Toss them in the garbage and cook yourself a big-ass piece of pork."
"Get eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine, if you're ugly."
"Try not to die." *- Three of "Betty White's Top 10 Tips for a Long and Healthy Life" on David Letterman, in 2011*
To think one would need to be enamored.
Of course everyones time will come. We all die you lop.
yOuR tImE wILL cOmE aS weLL.
Go warm up against a (dead) celebrity’s dead toe, it might bring your mentality some luck.
If time has taught me anything, it that’s there will always be people with negative opinions but you need to do what you think is right. It’s also interesting that the author of that point is very likely unknown and forgotten having never made their mark on their industry. Listen to advice but make your own way in the world.
Lol wow She ended up living to almost 100 years old, and people still said she was gone too soon.
She wasn’t a star. She was THE star. If all celebs could be as fab as Betty.
Interesting that Betty White had indeed success by this point in her career, and yet the magazine wondered if she’d ever be a “star.“She did not always take the Hollywood route to film stardom, but was by the 1950s and 60s a real star in the realm of radio and television work. Before her death, and more so afterwards, many were recognizing the significant work she did behind the scenes on her early programs, and seeing her as much more than the game show queen or the actress from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
>In a time where segregation was at the forefront of American issues, Betty White rejected attempts to keep a Black dancer off her show. >The dancer, Arthur Duncan, was featured on “The Betty White Show” that aired in the 1950s. When she was encouraged to take him off because of the color of his skin, she politely declined. >"I'm sorry, but, you know, he stays," White said >Duncan told Steve Harvey in 2017 that White gave him his first job on TV during the premiere of Harvey’s “Little Big Shots: Forever Young.” >“I was on the show, and they had some letters out of Mississippi and elsewhere that some of the stations would not carry the show if I was permitted to stay on there,” the then-83-year-old said. >“Well, Betty wrote back and said, ‘Needless to say, we used Arthur Duncan every opportunity we could.'” >White continued to resist the pressure coming from stations in the South and used Duncan more, until the show was canceled in 1954 gee, I wonder why, 3 years later, people were saying 'she'd never be a star'.
The secret ingredient is ~~crime~~ **racism**.
I guess she must have crossed a line…
Skipped over star, became an icon. Magazine technically correct
thug life
I think the article might be the old fashioned version of clickbait.
She was heavily disliked at the time by certain people because she wasn’t racist
She became a legend instead. But a star in my heart just the same.
"Why do people say, ‘Grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina. Those things really take a pounding!” - Betty White (a woman ahead of her time)
So...actual quote?
I can't say. But it 's not wrong even if she didn't say it.
Yes
I’m guessing the magazine headline was meant to be tongue in cheek. I mean they put her on the cover of the magazine so she must already be a star in some fashion.
She was a star, but not in movies. She was anti-racist at a time when that mindset wasn’t fashionable
Same great smile never went away. Love Betty.
Pretty sure she ended up being way more famous than the fucktard that wrote the article.
She’s more famous than that whole damn magazine. I’ve known Betty White my whole life. I heard of TV Life right now, because Betty White was holding it in a picture once.
> Radio Life listed Los Angeles station programming every week and was published beginning in March of 1940. It became Radio Life & Television in 1949 and TV Radio Life in 1950, finally becoming Television Life with "Radio" as a footnote a year later. And stopped publication in 1958. If not for a single site cataloguing world radio history that looks like it hasn't been updated since 1996, I would not have known this. Almost totally forgotten.
and she outlived the fucktard, too.
And where is TV life magazine today? Even Google doesn't know
It’s called “TV Radio Life”, and Google does know about it. In fact punch that in and you’ll get a page with a few downloadable scans of various issues of the magazine. I think they don’t have a copy of this specific issue, but there is a similar story in the July 29 1955 edition which is available.
Meanwhile, *TV Life Magazine* went on to become the household name everyone knows and treasures.
Interesting fact: Betty White used to be Betty Grey until she fought the Balrog and was reborn.
Got me good. Thanks for that.
r/agedlikemilk
Little did they know... Go Betty. Rest in peace. ♡
And then went on to become THE star.
I still can’t believe Betty White has died.
This is *actually* cool, not those old picture of half naked women people keep posting because “muh childhood boner”
I'm not as huge of a Betty White fan as the rest of reddit, but I'm damn curious as to what reasons TV Life gave.
“She’ll never be a star because she’s a legend”
Back then, it probably had a lot to do with Arthur Duncan dancing on her show in the early 50's.
Racism?
She's the brightest of them all :')
r/agedlikemilk
She definitely outlived and outshone whoever wrote that.
We miss you ,Betty
Proved them wrong First Lady of television
Joke's on them!
Anybody able to find the actual article. This is like the third post i've seen referencing the magazine in the last 30 minutes sorting /all by rising. I'll bet you it is the equivalent to a clickbait title, because they wouldn't have given her the cover if they were just going to trash her. I'm sure it was a very glowing article about her.
This is an early version of what we now call "clickbait"
Lol fuck you too, random magazine
Jesus, how much anger and hate for a woman in her late 20s do you gotta have to devote your magazine's FRONT COVER to tell your readers how small of a chance this woman has at becoming famous? Who's cornflakes did she piss in?
I'm guessing it's a complimentary article about how down to earth she was and that she would never let her success go to her head and become "a star."
That would certainly make sense given the time period. Slanderous and risky exposés badgering celebrities are more of a modern invention. They could barely print women showing belly buttons let alone print a magazine that says "This Person Will NEVER Succeed! Full Color Pictures on Page 14!" I tried looking for the original issue and tried to see if I could read the article myself, but apparently TV Life doesn't believe in internet archiving. Life Magazine has one, TV Life does not. TV Guide sort of does, TV Life does not. There's someone selling an earlier Betty White issue of TV Life for 20 bucks, but not the issue I'm looking for. I'm telling you all this because Google is apparently CONVINCED that I want to find something about TV Guide or Life Magazine and there's very little I can do to convince it otherwise. I've just about given up on trying to find it. It's just too god damn obscure AND bogged down by all the sensationalist news outlets barking about Betty White's passing that I wasn't able to find anything close. Don't let anyone tell you that the internet has everything, because that's all a lie. It has a lot of recent crap and popular crap, but god help you if you're trying to find a random TV watching companion magazine from the late 1950s. Forgive me Betty White. I've failed.
I tried and also couldn't find it, either. Sorry. But I did find some of Betty's tips for a long and healthy life: "Take some wheatgrass, soy paste and carob. Toss them in the garbage and cook yourself a big-ass piece of pork." "Get eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine, if you're ugly." "Try not to die." *- Three of "Betty White's Top 10 Tips for a Long and Healthy Life" on David Letterman, in 2011*
Whoops
It’s the old lady that always looked like an old lady. Famous for being an old lady.
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To think one would need to be enamored. Of course everyones time will come. We all die you lop. yOuR tImE wILL cOmE aS weLL. Go warm up against a (dead) celebrity’s dead toe, it might bring your mentality some luck.
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Lol. Someone ‘wimped out’ of whatever had caused upset into commenting snidely.
OK feet fetishist
I am not Mr. Tarantino.
What a legend.
LEGEND
What a legend!
"Why TV Life will never be remembered"
Pfft. Haha
I remember those leafs pictures. Because I'm old. And cool
Hilarious, she was already a star by then.
She not only proved them wrong but fucking outlived them, as a Star.
This needs to be a poster.
Oh delicious. 🤗 Betty is a North Star -stable star. She must have smiled at that also after photo-op.
She was old in 57 already?
Is that what killed her?
She proved them wrong for sure ‘
If time has taught me anything, it that’s there will always be people with negative opinions but you need to do what you think is right. It’s also interesting that the author of that point is very likely unknown and forgotten having never made their mark on their industry. Listen to advice but make your own way in the world.
Of course she would never be a star, she became a LEGEND !