Betty WhiteFilmography

Ponyo

Actors: Noah Cyrus, Yuria Nara, Frankie Jonas, Hiroki Doi, Tina Fey, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Matt Damon, Kazushige Nagashima, Cate Blanchett, Yuki Amami, Liam Neeson, George Tokoro

Synopsis: Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki returns for his ninth animated feature with Ponyo on the Cliff, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess that yearns to be human. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Love N' Dancing

Actors: Amy Smart, Tom Malloy, Billy Zane, Nicola Royston, Leila Arcieri

Synopsis: A dejected English teacher and a former West Coast Swing Dance attempting to overcome the obstacles in their lives and win the world title in this romantic dance drama starring Amy Smart, Tom Malloy, and Billy Zane. English teacher Jessica has grown bored with her life. She's married to a Read More

Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner

Actors: William Shatner

Synopsis: Star Trek star William Shatner settles into the celebrity hot seat, opening the floodgates for a series of relentless barbs by eager friends and colleagues in this installment of the popular Comedy Central Roast series. The tranya flows, the band rocks, and the insults fly as a series of Read More

The Third Wish

Actors: Jenna Mattison, Sean Maguire, Armand Assante, Betty White, James Avery

Synopsis: The family friendly film The Third Wish stars Jenna Mattison as Maggie , mousy book store employee who believes she has earned three wishes from an obscure book by Charles Dickens. She does not realize that there is a powerful person pulling the strings to make her dreams come true. ~ Perry Read More

Annie's Point

Synopsis: This heartwarming made-for-cable "road" picture begins in Chicago, where widowed grandmother Annie Eason (Betty White, convincingly portraying a 69-year-old while herself in her eighties!) wants to grant the final request of her husband Elliott: To release his ashes from the top of "Annie's Read More

Bringing Down the House

Actors: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart

Synopsis: A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean Smart), divorces him; he's also adjusting to his new status as a Read More

Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

King of the Hill: The Son Also Roses

The Retrievers

Actors: Robert Hays, Mel Harris, Robert Wagner, Betty White, Alan Rachins

Synopsis: The Retrievers stars Bettie White, Robert Hays, and Robert Wagner in the kid-friendly tale of a family who discovers a dog and her newborn litter of puppies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tom Sawyer

Actors: Thom Adcox, Dee Bradley Baker, Sheryl Bernstein, Pat Corley

Synopsis: Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is re-created here as an animated adventure movie. Featuring a country music soundtrack with songs by Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings and Lee Ann Womack, the video is also accented with famous voices, like those of Don Knotts and Betty White Read More

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

Actors: Angela Bassett, Joanna Lumley, Anne Archer, Debi Derryberry

Synopsis: Beverly Joubert and Derek Joubert, a husband-and-wife team who've won widespread acclaim (and a certain amount of controversy) for their beautiful but unflinchingly realistic wildlife documentaries (including Eternal Enemies and Wildlife Warriors), wrote and directed this feature-length drama that Read More

Intimate Portrait: Betty White

The Story of Us

Actors: Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Matheson, Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this romantic comedy as Ben and Katie Jordan, a couple who have been married for fifteen years. They have two great kids, a nice home, and a comfortable life, but somewhere down the line, the spark went out of their marriage, and they find that they don't Read More

Lake Placid

Actors: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White

Synopsis: So what's under the water in that lake deep in the Maine woods? No one is sure what it could be, but a dead and severely mutilated body was found near the shore, and the only clue is a large tooth which appears to be from a prehistoric animal resembling a huge crocodile. Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) Read More

Ally McBeal: Seeing Green

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Ladies Man [TV Series]

Actors: Alfred Molina, Sharon Lawrence, Betty White, Park Overall, Stephen Root

The Story of Santa Claus

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again

Actors: Don Rickles, Justin Cooper

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to the 1993 movie Dennis the Menace (which was based on Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip), mischievous youngster Dennis (Justin Cooper) wants to help his eternally frazzled next-door neighbor Mr. Wilson (Don Rickles) celebrate his birthday, but Mr. Wilson is Read More

Hard Rain

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner

Synopsis: A natural disaster breeds man-made treachery in this suspense thriller. Severe flooding threatens an Indiana town after a massive rainstorm taxes dams to the breaking point. As part of an emergency evacuation effort, armored car driver Tom (Christian Slater) and his uncle Charlie (Edward Asner) Read More

A Weekend in the Country

Actors: Faith Ford, Christine Lahti, Jack Lemmon, Richard Lewis, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Rita Rudner was both co-writer and co-star of this multi-plotted romantic comedy, set in a bed and breakfast in the middle of Southern California's wine country. In the course of the film's 90 minutes, a number of curiously matched couples will find true romance -- and sometimes even true Read More

Historic Reruns, Vol. 8: Date with the Angels

Synopsis: This video features some highlights from the golden era of American television in the 1950s, with live clips and personal recollections of the stars. In this volume, Betty White and Bill Williams star in Date With the Angels. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson then appear in The New Chairs. ~ Rose of Sharon Read More

Chance of a Lifetime

Synopsis: In this romance, a widowed businesswoman, believing she has an incurable disease begins a series of romantic encounters only to discover that she has been misdiagnosed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 07

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: With series star Bea Arthur announcing that she did not wish to continue playing fiftysomething teacher Dorothy Zbornak any longer, it was decided that the seventh season of the NBC sitcom Golden Girls would be the last. Perhaps for this reason, the series' ratings plummeted from tenth to 30th Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 06

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: America's four favorite senior citizens, Dorothy (Bea Arthur), Rose (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), and Sophia (Estelle Getty), are still residing in the same cozy Miami household as The Golden Girls launches its sixth season. This year's opener is "Blanche Delivers," as Blanche nervously Read More

American Red Cross Emergency Test

Synopsis: This medical instructional video is produced by the American Red Cross. Taking the viewer first through a twenty-question test on proper procedures for life-threatening medical emergencies, with an included test score card, the video then shows the recommended medical procedures for each depicted Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 05

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: The Golden Girls begins its fifth season minus several of its longtime writers, but with the basic cast intact: Bea Arthur as Dorothy, Betty White as Rose, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, and Estelle Getty as Dorothy's mom, Sophia, four very mature ladies living under the same roof in a small Miami Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 04

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: Roommates Dorothy (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Rose (Betty White), and Sophia (Estelle Getty) continue to prove that there is still plenty of life (among other pleasurable things!) after age 50 in the fourth season of the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. The opening episode, "Yokel Hero," Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 03

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: The third season of The Golden Girls continues to chronicle the adventures of four over-50 ladies who lived under the same Miami roof: widows Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) and Rose Nylund (Betty White), divorcée Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), and Dorothy's shamelessly outspoken mother, Sophia Read More

Rockin' Road Trip

Actors: Garth McLean, Margaret Currie, Katherine Harrison, Steve Boles, Martin Tucker

Synopsis: In this youth comedy, Nicole (Margaret Currie) is a member of the Cherry Suicide rock band currently playing in Boston. She welcomes her sister Samantha (Katherine Harrison) on a short vacation visit. Martin (Garth McLean) falls for Samantha after he meets her and one thing leads to another. Soon Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 02

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: Having emerged from its first season as the seventh highest-rated program in America -- and one of four NBC sitcoms in the Top Ten -- The Golden Girls waltzed into its second season on NBC's Saturday-night lineup with the greatest of ease. Virtually no changes were made with the basic cast and Read More

The Golden Girls: Season 01

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: Legend has it that The Golden Girls, created by Susan Harris of Soap fame, was introduced to NBC's Saturday-evening lineup in the fall of 1986 to counter criticism that the network was ignoring its older viewers (that is, those over the age of 34) in favor of younger fans. Whatever the case, not Read More

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Eunice

Synopsis: The 90-minute TV special Eunice reunites the "family" originally created for the weekly variety series The Carol Burnett Show. Carol Burnett plays Eunice, the frustrated, viper-tongued, ever-envious wife of dyspeptic, long-suffering Ed (Harvey Korman, who also directed). Eunice carries on a Read More

The Retrievers

Actors: Max Thayer, Shawn Hoskins, Lenard Miller, Bud Cramer

Synopsis: This martial arts action film is about Tom, a man conned into joining the CIA and then forced into fighting against it when his ethics lead him to protect those connected with an exposé of the agency. Danny has written the exposé and when he is taken into custody by the CIA, Tom sees his partner Read More

The Gossip Columnist

Actors: Steve Allen, Jim Backus, Jack Carter, Jayne Meadows, Martha Raye, Sylvia Sidney, Rip Taylor, Lyle Waggoner, Betty White, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such miniseries as The Kent Family Chronicles. Fourth-billed Kim Cattrall plays the title character, journalist Dina Moran. Instructed by her boss (Dick Sargent) to take over the Read More

The Best Place to Be

Actors: Mildred Dunnock, Michael J. Shannon, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: This attenuated adaptation of Helen Van Slyke's novel stars Donna Reed (her first TV appearance in 12 years) as a widow with financial and domestic problems. Her adult daughter Stephanie Zimbalist has turned to drugs; her sons Michael Shannon and Tim Hutton have less severe but no less Read More

Before and After

Actors: Patty Duke, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Feldon, Betty White, Art Hindle

Synopsis: The "before" version of Patty Duke is obese and slovenly. Emerging from a "fat farm," the "after" version of Patty Duke discovers that her husband (Bradford Dillman) has been playing the field while she's been trying to shed her excess poundage. Duke then takes up with a handsome artist (Art Hindle Read More

A Different Approach

With This Ring

Actors: John Forsythe, Scott Hylands, Betty White, Diana Canova

Synopsis: In this drama three contemporary couples prepare for their upcoming nuptials. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 07

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: While The Mary Tyler Moore Show no longer enjoyed Top 20 ratings as the series entered its seventh season, CBS hoped that the show would last forever as the linchpin of its Saturday-night lineup. However, series star Mary Tyler Moore (cast as Mary Richards, newscast producer at Minneapolis TV Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 06

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: If for no other reason, the sixth season of The Mary Tyler Moore would be memorable for the Emmy-winning episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust," which has been listed in innumerable media publications as one of the funniest sitcom episodes of all time. Just in case you need remembering, this is the Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 05

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Season five of The Mary Tyler Moore Show gets under way with all but one of its familiar regular characters in attendance: Valerie Harper has departed the series in the role of Rhoda Morganstern to star in her own weekly spin-off, Rhoda. However, Harper and Mary Tyler Moore would be reunited in a Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 04

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: The big news of The Mary Tyler Moore Show's fourth season is the introduction of a new regular: Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens, the host of WJM-TV's "Happy Homemaker" household-hints show. Outwardly sweet and Pollyanna-ish, Sue Ann is actually the most predatory female in all of Minneapolis Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Cannonball Bookmobile

Synopsis: Light-years removed from her work on Golden Girls, Betty White appears in this episode as Adelle Colby, Hooterville's attractive new librarian. When Adelle sets up a mobile library service on the Hooterville Cannonball, bachelors Joe (Edgar Buchanan), Sam (Frank Cady) and Bert (Paul Hartman) fall Read More

Stump the Stars

Advise and Consent

Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney

Synopsis: The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the screen by producer/director Otto Preminger. The film hinges upon the appointment of Robert Leffingwell (Henry Fonda) to Secretary of State. Leffingwell has been hand-picked by Read More

A Date with the Angels [TV Series]

Date with the Angels, Vol. 5

Date with the Angels, Vol. 6

Date with the Angels, Vol. 7

Date with the Angels, Vol. 10

Date with the Angels, Vol. 4

Date with the Angels, Vol. 2

A Date with the Angels, Vol. 1

Date with the Angels, Vol. 8

Date with the Angels, Vol. 9

Date with the Angels, Vol. 3

A Cop 'n Comedy Christmas

Synopsis: Included are four Christmas episodes from '50s television shows: A Date with the Angels, Racket Squad, The Ruggles and Dragnet. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Life With Elizabeth: Season 02

Actors: Betty White, Del Moore, Jack Narz

Synopsis: With the first batch of 39 Life With Elizabeth episodes raking in big bucks in every local TV market to which the series had been sold, producer Don Fedderson (My Three Sons, Family Affair) opted to produce an additional 26 installments, which were first circulated in mid-1954. As in the first 39 Read More

Life With Elizabeth: Season 01

Actors: Betty White, Del Moore, Jack Narz

Synopsis: Introduced as a series of brief sketches on a local Los Angeles daytime variety show in 1952, the pioneering TV sitcom Life With Elizabeth was filmed for syndication the following year, with 39 half-hour episodes produced during its first season. Each half hour is divided into three short Read More

Life With Elizabeth [TV Series]

Actors: Betty White, Del Moore

Synopsis: One of the earliest filmed syndicated comedy series in the United States, Life With Elizabeth was a showcase for actress Betty White -- a full-fledged star two decades before The Mary Tyler Moore Show and three decades before Golden Girls. The series originated as a series of short comic sketches Read More

Date with the Angels

This is Your Life: Betty White

Lifeline: Preventing Elder Abuse