Content deleted Content added
DBrown SPS (talk | contribs) Category added to support topic |
→Personal life: WP:TYPO fix typo in date per edit request |
||
Line 165:
Writer [[John Steinbeck]] was in White and Ludden's group of high-profile friends, and White wrote about the friendship in her 2011 book ''If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't)''. Ludden had attended the same school as actress [[Elaine Anderson Steinbeck|Elaine Anderson]] (Steinbeck's future wife) and Steinbeck later gave an early draft of his [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] acceptance speech to Ludden as a birthday gift.<ref name="Hall Of Fame White" /><ref name="America">{{Cite web |title=America's Favorite Golden Girl: Betty White |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/americas-favorite-golden-girl-betty-white/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902052306/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/americas-favorite-golden-girl-betty-white/ |archive-date=September 2, 2018 |access-date=September 1, 2018 |website=kirkus}}</ref> The couple also had a close friendship with blind musician and motivational speaker [[Tom Sullivan (singer)|Tom Sullivan]], whom they had met in 1968 while Sullivan was singing in a small club at the same time that White and Ludden were performing in a play on [[Cape Cod, Massachusetts|Cape Cod]].<ref name="people/white-friend-sullivan"/> White and Sullivan co-wrote a book, ''Leading Lady'', about Sullivan's first [[seeing eye dog]], who lived with White after being retired.<ref name="people/white-friend-sullivan">{{cite news|url=https://people.com/tv/betty-white-longtime-friend-tom-sullivan-pens-heartfelt-tribute-on-her-instagram-national-treasure/|title=Betty White's Friend Tom Sullivan Pens Tribute on Her Instagram|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=January 21, 2022|access-date=October 15, 2022|archive-date=October 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015160752/https://people.com/tv/betty-white-longtime-friend-tom-sullivan-pens-heartfelt-tribute-on-her-instagram-national-treasure/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A man of many talents |url=https://www.perkins.org/a-man-of-many-talents/ |website=[[Perkins School for the Blind]] |date=April 22, 2017 |access-date=October 15, 2022 |archive-date=October 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015084050/https://www.perkins.org/a-man-of-many-talents/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Heser |first1=Hannah |title=Betty White's 'Dear Friend' Tom Sullivan Pens Touching Tribute in New Post |url=https://outsider.com/american-entertainment/betty-whites-dear-friend-tom-sullivan-pens-touching-tribute-new-post/ |website=Outsider |access-date=15 October 2022 |date=21 January 2022 |archive-date=October 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015084050/https://outsider.com/american-entertainment/betty-whites-dear-friend-tom-sullivan-pens-touching-tribute-new-post/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
White and Ludden had no children together, though she was the stepmother of his three children with Margaret McGloin Ludden, who had died of cancer in
White attended the [[Unity Church]], part of the [[New Thought]] movement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Villalva |first=Brittney R. |date=February 6, 2013 |title=Betty White- I'm 'Sexier' and 'More Wise' at 91 (PHOTO) |work=The Christian Post |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/betty-white-sexier-and-more-wise-at-91-actress-jokes-photo-8956 |url-status=live |access-date=December 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102103249/https://www.christianpost.com/news/betty-white-sexier-and-more-wise-at-91-actress-jokes-photo-8956 |archive-date=January 2, 2022}}</ref>
| |||