"Betty White met Allen Ludden in 1961 at NBC Studios in New York while guest-starring on his game show Password. Already a television trailblazer, Betty had starred in Life with Elizabeth and was known for her charm and comedic timing. Allen, still grieving the loss of his wife Margie McGloin, was instantly drawn to Betty’s warmth. He proposed multiple times over two years—once giving her a ring hidden in a stuffed animal—before she accepted in spring 1963." "They married on June 14, 1963, at th

‘Love and Death’ (1975) “This magnificent, often anarchic pastiche of Russian literature’s portentous habits with a side order in Bergmanesque death wallowing actually finds Allen at his silliest. Which also means it is extraordinarily clever silliness, with designs deliberately stolen from Chaplin, Keaton and the Marx Brothers. It is film that explores comedy’s infinite variety via the medium of the existential philosophy of those big Russian sagas slumped in history like sulking teenagers.” -