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“The Golden Girls” has been a hit ever since it first hit our screens in 1985.
Today,Betty Whiteis worth nearly $75 million, according toCelebrity Net Worth.
Luckily, after only one month, the theater recognized her level of talent.
“The next month I got what amounted to a raise.
“I didn’t make anything, but I didn’t have to pay them anything.”
Her acting career only continued to grow from there.
Now, White is a household name around the world.
Here are just a few of the things that have contributed to her massive net worth.
She eventually figured out that Tuesdays were the days that a local radio station casted their commercials.
After a few weeks, one of the producers noticed and sat down beside her.
She was one of the four women hired to answer callers phoning in with answers to the trivia questions.
There, producers paid the aspiring actor $10 each week.
Fast-forward to 1983, and White was asked to host another game show called “Just Men.”
“I love games,” she later toldParade.
“Of course, I met my husband on ‘Password,’ so that one is extra special.”
“I thought, ‘Sure!
Gee, another job?
Maybe I’ll make another 10 bucks,'” she told theArchive of American Television.
Jarvis offered the young actress $50, and at the time, she couldn’t even believe it.
“$50 a week!”
“I was in heaven.”
Each week, White would appear alongside Jarvis, and the two would ad-lib as music played around them.
“After three weeks, they extended it to also a show on Saturday,” she said.
“And stretched it from five hours a day to five and a half hours a day.”
After four years of hard work, White’s co-host decided to leave the popular series.
Luckily, the crew had the perfect replacement in mind.
“I inherited the show,” White said, and the rest is history.
In 1952, she began her own production company called Bandy Productions.
“I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood,” she explained toThe Hollywood Reporter.
White’s first project was producing and starring in a half-hour sitcom called “Life with Elizabeth.”
Though it was a big deal, it didn’t have a very big budget.
“We had about a $1.95 budget for each show,” she laughed during an interview withPBS.
Unexpectedly, the series was so successful that it ended up lasting for three whole years.
Television certainly hasn’t been the same since!
Surprisingly, she wasn’t even remotely interested in moving away from the West Coast.
Her agent at the time thought it was an amazing opportunity for the actor, but she still declined.
“He thought I was out of my mind!”
she told theArchive of American Television.
“At first that sounded, ‘That’s not a bad idea!'”
In the end, she ultimately declined.
The web connection’s second option for the position was a woman named Barbara Walters.
“And you know, they somehow managed to muddle through,” White laughed.
“‘Golden Girls’ was pure gold,” she toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
“Once I read that script and saw the casting, I knew I had to be involved.”
Over the course of seven seasons, White found herself more famous than ever.
“I never thought about those things,” she admitted toVariety.
“I was happy to work!”
That year, she was asked to star in acommercial for Snickers.
In it, she can be seen being tackled to the ground by a group of football players.
It made audiences everywhere laugh, but White never imagined it would be as big as it became.
“It wound up airing on the Super Bowl,” she toldCBSNews.com.
“And then the doors all started opening.”
In 2010, their plea came true.
“I hope the print is big enough.”
Luckily, fans loved seeing White that weekend.
According toEntertainment Weekly, the episode had the highest ratings of any other that year and won White anotherEmmy.
It was also the most viewed primetime show that evening as well.
But the show can’t seem to go on without Betty White.
Lucky for them, they locked in the real deal herself.
A similar situation happened with “Hot in Cleveland” in 2010.
When the series got picked up, she couldn’t resist continuing to play Elka Ostrovsky.
Her first book talked all about the most important people in her life her pets.
Her love for sharing a good story didn’t stop there, either.
White has written eight books, and her latest certainly didn’t disappoint other animal lovers.
In 2011, she wrote “Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo.”
In 2009, she appeared on an episode of “30 Rock” as a friend of Tracy Jordan.
Aside from those two roles, she’s even taken her acting skills into animation.
She’s appeared twice on “The Simpsons” and once on “Family Guy.”
In the movie, she voiced a toy tiger named Bitey White.
“It’s a lovely group, and they’re all friends of mine.
It doesn’t get any better.”
“I have to keep acting so that I can afford to keep doing my charity work!”
she once admitted toThe Hollywood Reporter.
Over the course of her career, she’s been heavily involved in supporting both the L.A.
Zoo and theMorris Animal Foundation, which is dedicated to helping improve the lives of animals.
In fact, she even toldSmithsonianthat she has turned down movie roles because of mistreatment of animals on set.
In 1971, she started up the series “The Pet Set to shine the spotlight on animals.
“I’m actually the luckiest old broad alive,” she said.
“Half my life is working in a profession I love and the other half is working with animals.
I couldn’t ask for more.”
