► http://XmasFLIX.com ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX MP3s ► http://XmasTRAX.com ► Mobile ► http://iXmas.mobi A Betty White Christmas! (1957) "Santa's Helper" (Date With The Angels) Are you dreaming of a Betty White Christmas? Your dreams have come true with this classic episode of the show "Date with the Angels", starring Betty White. Episode #26 "Santa's Helper" aired December 13, 1957 Vickie tries to find a suitable outlet for Mr. Finley, Sr.'s energy, so she enlists the help of her friend Dolly to get him a job in the local department store as one of Santa's helpers. Her plan backfires when Mr. Finley - as Santa - starts to give out free toys to all the children who meet with him, with the skinflint toy department manager on the hook for the unwitting expenditure. "Date with the Angels" is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from May 10, 1957 to January 29, 1958. The series, which stars Betty White and Bill Williams, began as a late season replacement for The Ray Anthony Show for the same sponsor, Chrysler's Plymouth division. Tom Kennedy was the show's announcer and spokesman for Plymouth. The series revolves around newly married Vicki Angel and her insurance salesman husband Gus Angel who get themselves and their friends and neighbors into various comedic situations. Besides Betty White and Bill Williams, the series also featured for several episodes Richard Deacon, Richard Reeves, Maudie Prickett and Burt Mustin. Among the series' guest stars were Nancy Kulp, Madge Blake, Joan Vohs, Chuck Connors, Reta Shaw, Dave Willock, Sid Melton, Russell Hicks, Hugh O'Brian, Hanley Stafford, and Williard Waterman. Date with the Angels was loosely based on the Elmer Rice play Dream Girl, and the series was originally intended to revolve heavily around Vicki's daydreaming tendencies, with more than half of a typical episode dedicated to fantasy sequences. However, the sponsor was not pleased with the fantasy elements and successfully exerted pressure to have them eliminated. "Without our dream sequences," White later said, "our show flattened out and became just one more run-of-the-mill domestic comedy [...] I can honestly say that was the only time I have ever wanted to get out of a show." The series produced 33 filmed episodes before it was canceled in late January 1958 in favor of a live comedy-variety series, The Betty White Show. Betty White - Vickie Angel Burt Mustin - Mr. Finley Nancy Kulp - Dolly Richard Reeves - Mr. Murphy Bill Williams - Gus Angel Jimmy Boyd - Wheeler Maudie Prickett - Mrs. Cassie Murphy Richard Deacon - Roger Finley Tom Kennedy - Announcer Roy Engel - George Clemson Natalie Masters - Wilma Clemson Lillian Bronson - Mrs. Drake Gage Clarke - Dr. Gordon Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and television personality. With a career spanning over seven decades, she is best known to contemporary audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. Since the death of co-star Rue McClanahan in 2010, she is now the only living Golden Girl. She currently stars as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland and hosts the practical-joke show Betty White's Off Their Rockers. White has won seven Emmy Awards (six for acting) and has received 20 Emmy nominations over the course of her career and is the only person to have an Emmy in all female performing comedic categories. In May 2010, White became the oldest person to guest-host Saturday Night Live, for which she also received a Primetime Emmy Award. White also holds the record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances -- her first was in 1951 and her most recent was in 2011, a span of 60 years -- and has become the oldest nominee as of 2012, aged 90. She has made regular appearances on the game shows Password and Match Game and played recurring roles on Mama's Family, Boston Legal, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Community. White began her television career in 1939, three months after high school graduation, when she and a classmate sang songs from The Merry Widow on an experimental Los Angeles channel. White found work modeling, and her first professional acting job was at the Bliss Hayden Little Theatre. White's career was disrupted immediately, as World War II broke out, causing her to join the American Women's Voluntary Services. In the 1940s, she worked in radio appearing on shows such as Blondie, The Great Gildersleeve, and This Is Your FBI. She then got her own radio show, called The Betty White Show. In 1950, Betty was nominated for her first Emmy Award as "Best Actress" on television. This was the very first award and category in the new Emmy history designated for women on television. ▻ http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX Vintage Christmas Films, Cartoons and Movies! ▻ http://XmasFLIX.com

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