"And they'd ask my husband, Allen Ludden, they'd ask, 'How close to Betty is Sue Ann?' He said, 'Well, they're the same, except Betty can't cook, of course.'" "She was the neighborhood nymphomaniac," White told "Sunday Morning" in 2011. White played the part hilariously, and became a fixture of the series, winning two of her five Emmy Awards for the role. She was a welcome presence throughout the '60s on such game shows as "To Tell the Truth," "What's My Line?," "Liar's Club," "It Takes Two," and "Password," where she met her husband, host Allen Ludden.ĭuring the fourth season of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," one script described a character, Sue Ann Nivens, as "a sickeningly sweet Betty White type." Sweet – as well as scheming, conniving, and laughably lustful. In the '50s she starred in the sitcom "Life With Elizabeth," and her own talk program, "The Betty White Show." After the war, when she served as a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she began hosting a live variety show, "Hollywood on Television," in 1949. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.įor generations, the actress, comedian and television presenter Betty White (January 17, 1922-December 31, 2021) was one of TV's most familiar and beloved faces, often hilariously playing against the sweet image of her smiling eyes and dimpled cheeks on the series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls."īorn in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in California during the Great Depression, White performed on radio and for an experimental TV station in Los Angeles in the 1930s. References This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Betty White, of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." | CBS Photo Archive Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Cartoons and animations at The Washington Post." Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes" exhibit site, Library of Congress.Dick: An Editorial Cartoon Collection (with Sara Thaves, self-published, 2006).Humor's Edge (Pomegranate Press/Library of Congress, 2004). Berryman Award (National Press Foundation) 2002 - Maggie Award (Planned Parenthood), for Editorial Cartoons.1997 - National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons.Reuben Award (finalist National Cartoonists Society).Best Editorial Cartoonist, Sixth Annual Environmental Media Awards.Best Cartoonist, The Population Institute XVII Global Media Awards.Her other awards and nominations include: She is also a past vice president and current president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and is a member of the American Newswomen's Club. Telnaes had a solo exhibition at the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in 2004. In 2017, she received the Reuben Award, the top honor awarded by the National Cartoonists' Society. In 2001, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, only the second woman so honored (after Signe Wilkinson). Telnaes is married to David Lloyd and lives in Washington, D.C. Though the cartoon was taken down from the Washington Post's website, Telnaes stood by it, tweeting "Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well." In her cartoon, Telnaes portrayed the daughters of the senator as monkeys on leashes, with Cruz holding the leashes and grinding an organ. In response to an ad for the presidential campaign of Republican senator Ted Cruz, which featured his 5- and 7-year old daughters delivering a partisan message and an oblique attack on the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. In December 2015, one of Telnaes's animated cartoons became the center of controversy. Her animated editorial cartoons are featured on The Washington Post's website.īetween January 2000 and September 2005, she was one of the Six Chix cartoonists, drawing every Thursday strip. Telnaes also contributes an exclusive weekly cartoon to the nonprofit online news service Women's eNews. She is syndicated with Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate/New York Times Syndicate, with her work appearing across the United States in such publications as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Austin American-Statesman and internationally in Le Monde and Courrier International. Unlike many editorial cartoonists, Telnaes does not draw for any one set newspaper. She contributed to such films as The Brave Little Toaster and The Chipmunk Adventure. Before becoming an editorial cartoonist, she worked for some years in the animation field, most notably with Walt Disney Imagineering. at the California Institute of the Arts, specializing in character animation. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Telnaes earned her B.F.A.
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