Legendary actress Betty White may have passed away last weekend, a few weeks before she turned 100, but a film dedicated to the round birthday will still be screened on the scheduled date.
According to Steve Boucher and Mike Trinklin, the producers of the documentary "Betty White: A 100-Year-Old Girl - A Birthday Celebration," the film about the late star, will be screened in the United States on January 17, the day White was scheduled to celebrate her birthday.
"Our hearts but today in light of Betty White's death. Over the many years we have worked with her, we have developed great love and appreciation for Betty as a person and a high achiever," they said in a statement, stating that they had decided to release their film despite the actress' death.
"(This) in the hope that our film will provide for everyone who loved her a way to celebrate her life and experience what made her a national treasure."
Betty White's memorial site on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Photo: AFP
According to a report by USA Today, the film in question will be screened in about 900 cinemas across the United States on the designated day.
Along with Boucher and Trinklin, members of the old sketch show "Saturday Night Live" also announced that they will rebroadcast the edition in which White was a guest on the show and which she moderated after a successful network campaign by her fans.
This is an episode that was screened, with an interesting coincidence, on the eve of the New Year in 2010 - that is, exactly on the day she passed away 11 years later.
In the same program, White, at the age of 88, became the oldest person to host Saturday Night Live.
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