Betty White, last golden girl, dies at 99

Actress Betty White, the unforgettable innocent peasant girl from the series 'The Golden Girls', died last night at her home in Los Angeles. Active until the end, just three days ago he promoted on his Twitter account an event celebrating his centenary birthday, on January 17. She was the oldest and, even so, the only survivor of the four protagonists of that unforgettable television comedy that triumphed between the late 80s and early 90s and dealt with the life of this group of senior citizens. Despite the fact that the role of Rose placed him on the global scene, his career was long and long, the longest in history according to the Guinness book of records: eight decades.

He had made his debut on the small screen in 1939, when television was still an adventure, with an experimental channel in Los Angeles and in 2014, at the age of 92, he was still starring in a series called "Hot in Cleveland." White was beloved in America, endearing to those who lived through her heyday, and a fun character for later generations. Proof of this is that in 2009 an admirer launched a campaign to get the veteran star to present a chapter of 'Saturday Night Live', the great comic night show on American television, and his appearance won him an Emmy. It was the seventh on his back.

In the 40s, she was the first woman to be nominated for this award for her variety shows and in the 50s, one of the few that was already producing and starring in her own series:

She broke down barriers for other women as well.

She was, for example, also the first to hire a female director for her talk show.

"Feminist movements were far from existing, we didn't even think about what we achieved," she recalled a long time ago.