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Is there a TV star more universally beloved than Betty White?

Born in Oak Park, Ill. in 1922, White was just two years old when her parents moved to Los Angeles, per Biography. After attending Beverly Hills High, the future comedy starlet originally aspired to be a park ranger, but changed course when she learned only men were hired for those positions at the time.

In her years of life, Betty has become known as the entertainer with the longest-ever career in the industry, thanks to several iconic.

Instead, White eyed a career in Tinseltown.

As a young actress in the 1940s, White found work performing on radio, but segued into the booming new medium of television just as it was getting off the ground. Since then, this Hollywood icon has been a ubiquitous presence on TV screens, including playing integral roles on groundbreaking series likes The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls.

"I'd like to be remembered as Betty," White once told The Television Academyof her pioneering role in pop culture. "Their good friend that they inv