Betty White's Best TV And Movie Roles

Thank you for being a friend -– "The Golden Girls" is without a doubt the shining star in Betty White's groundbreaking and extraordinary career. The show went on for a remarkable seven seasons, featuring widowers Blanche Deveraux (Rue McClanahan), Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), Rose Nylund (Betty White), and divorcee Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) as roommates pursuing all the glory of life in their golden age in sunny Miami. Though White almost played Blanche, as Rose Nylund, White perfected portraying a big-hearted, although perhaps rather small-minded, character. With Nylund, White provided a masterclass in charming naivety and provided audiences with endless laughter.

White was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for each and every season of "The Golden Girls," winning once for the show's first season. White had so many memorable moments as Nylund, with one particularly great one coming in the episode "In a Bed of Rose's." Nylund seems to have a bad streak of luck when it comes to sleeping with men, who all seem to die in bed with her. She tells her roommates about a sheriff named Arnie, "I told him about me, how I kill men, and he didn't believe me ... He said, 'Let's see. Sleep with me.' So I did. And the sheriff died." 

Though her friends were visibly shocked, Nylund reveals it was all a joke, reminding us that this naive character had one heck of a clever streak.