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#Betty White Delivers Final Message to Fans in Theatrical Celebration Event

#Betty White Delivers Final Message to Fans in Theatrical Celebration Event

A documentary celebrating the life of Betty White will be screening in theaters and it includes the last on-screen appearance of the comedy icon.


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Fans will be able to see something new from Betty White one last time. The late comedy legend, who passed away on New Year’s Eve at the age of 99, had participated in a special documentary that will screen in theaters on what would have been White’s 100th birthday. She recorded an interview for the project just ten days before her passing, and it will be the last on-screen appearance for White.

After White’s passing, the doc’s producer’s Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein announced that the screening would be moving forward as planned. While it was initially titled Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration, the event has been redubbed as simply Betty White: A Celebration. As Boettcher explain to THR, the change also came with some heavy editing to the doc to reflect that she had passed as opposed to serving as a birthday celebration.

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“Betty shot a tribute to her fans on Dec. 20, which will be in the film. It was her idea to do this. She said, ‘I want my fans to know this.’ We’ve been asked to share it. We’ve been asked to put it on social media. The only place we thought was right was putting it in the film and sharing it with her friends, family, and fans who are going to be there.”


The producer also shared the story of how the experience filming White’s last interview went incredibly well, as the late Golden Girls star spoke from the heart and her love for the fans really comes through in the footage.

“Betty loved getting glammed up, as she called it. The dress, the hair, the look — she just loved that. It’s probably about a minute or two long clip of just her looking directly in the camera as the graciously fun, warm Betty. She thanks all her fans over the years and for being out on the 17th to see the film. It’s just got that twinkle that’s Betty. The great thing about it is that she didn’t read it off the teleprompter or have a script. She ad-libbed it, and that’s Betty to the very end. She’s spontaneous and has the wherewithal to go with it and do it live. She was so good at that. You can’t watch it for the first time and help but get goosebumps when you hear her. It’s just very, very sweet.”


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Betty White was not overly involved with the special, but she did consult and contribute in some pretty big ways. The doc features a variety of interviews from many celebrities who knew or worked with White over the years. Determining who to interview was rather easy, because as Boettcher explains, White personally provided a list of some of her many friends she thought would be a good fit. She was right, as they were all eager to get involved.

“One significant thing she did is that Betty gave us her list of who she thought would be perfect to be interviewed for this film; the people near and dear to her that she worked with and just had a special connection to. People like Ryan Reynolds, Valerie Bertinelli, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Carol Burnett, Georgia Engel. The list goes on. All these people were really close to Betty. We thought that instead of just doing people she met at an awards banquet one time, we’d find people who were close to her life.”


Betty White: A Celebration will be screening in theaters on Jan. 17, 2022. You can find out more information and purchase tickets at the official website for Fathom Events.


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