The 3rd Primetime Emmy Awards was held January 23, 1951. The nominees were mainly from the Los Angeles area, but beginning with the 4th ceremony, the awards considered national television networks.
Alan Young was a big winner that night winning for the Best Variety Show and Best Actor. The phenomenal Betty White was nominated for Best Actress along with Helen Hayes, but lost to Gertrude Berg.
The incomparable, irreplaceable Betty White won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for her role as Elka Ovstrovsky.in Hot in Cleveland at the 17th annual ceremony January 30, 2011. It was the second of three SAGs for Betty. The year before, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement from the Screen Actors Guild.
Phenomenal actress Betty White, born January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois, celebrates her 99th birthday today! She started her acting career in 1945 in a short film Time to Kill. Since then she's gone on to have a stellar career in television, with roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland.
She has won 5 Primetime Emmys, a Daytime Emmy and even a Grammy Award.
Wonderful and hilarious Rue McClanahan, born February 21, 1934 in Healdton, Oklahoma(!), became a favorite of television fans when she appeared as ditzy neighbor Vivian Harmon on the sitcom Maude starring Bea Arthur. She starred in Mama's Family with Vicki Lawrence as Aunt Fran and a guest appearance on Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.
Then she landed a role that cemented her fanbase forever, when she was cast as the seductive, unashamedly promiscuous Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls with Betty White and Bea Arthur.
She remained active by appearing in roles throughout the 1990s and 2000s when she starred as Peggy Ingram in the mini-series Sordid Lives, a prequel to the movie of the same name.
Rue left us in June 2010 when she suffered a brain hemorrhage.
