When Betty White did Life With Elizabeth which first brought her to public attention she was 30 years old and the difference between this and her current series Hot In Cleveland where she's a grandmother figure are a Grand Canyon like chasm. I think Betty was lucky to have a career after this one. My first memory of her was as a semi-regular Password celebrity contestant where she eventually married host Allen Ludden. On that she was given a certain amount of freedom and let a nice gem of wit spill out every so often.
Betty certainly got better with age as Golden Girls attests. I confess I had never even heard of this show before seeing several episodes of it on a DVD. If Betty had never attained the icon status she did later on, this show would be still buried in some vault, the original kinescopes decaying away.
Life With Elizabeth one of many imitators of I Love Lucy which flooded Fifties television back in the day. The sets are pretty cheap and only a flash of Betty's personality shines through. She's an ever helpful wife to Del Moore even when he doesn't ask for it. Jack Narz was the announcer of the show and he functioned as a character himself with dialog between him and White going back and forth at the beginning. That's what seems to have set this particular TV comedy apart from the others, but personally I found it distracting.
Nothing special about Life With Elizabeth if it weren't for a future Golden Girl in it.
Betty certainly got better with age as Golden Girls attests. I confess I had never even heard of this show before seeing several episodes of it on a DVD. If Betty had never attained the icon status she did later on, this show would be still buried in some vault, the original kinescopes decaying away.
Life With Elizabeth one of many imitators of I Love Lucy which flooded Fifties television back in the day. The sets are pretty cheap and only a flash of Betty's personality shines through. She's an ever helpful wife to Del Moore even when he doesn't ask for it. Jack Narz was the announcer of the show and he functioned as a character himself with dialog between him and White going back and forth at the beginning. That's what seems to have set this particular TV comedy apart from the others, but personally I found it distracting.
Nothing special about Life With Elizabeth if it weren't for a future Golden Girl in it.