Hollywood is known for producing some of the world’s most epic love stories – both on-screen and off.
Among those stories was that …
Hollywood is known for producing some of the world’s most epic love stories – both on-screen and off. Among those stories was that of Betty White and Allen Ludden, who were married from 1963 until his death in 1981. Both parties had been married before, with Ludden being married to Margaret McGloin from 1943 until her death by cancer in 1961. For her part, White was married twice before. First to Dick Barker, whom she married and divorced in 1945 before marrying Hollywood agent Lane Allen from 1947-1949. White and Ludden met in 1961 when the actress appeared as a celebrity guest on the hit game show “ Password,“ hosted by Ludden. The week White filmed her appearance was the week that Ludden’s first wife died, the star previously told the Archive of American Television (AAT). After spending a few weeks together working on a project with their families in tow, Ludden would propose marriage to White rather than say „hello.“ „Well it was a joke and I’d laugh it off and he’d laugh it off,“ White told AAT. She added that she „was going very steadily with somebody“ at the time. „That went on for a year and Allen kept asking me to marry him and finally it wasn’t a joke anymore and I’d get mad.
