Betty White exhibition opens in Newbridge featuring outfits worn by Golden Girl

• Published date: 22 June 2022
• Publication title: DublinLive (Ireland)

Home to the Museum of Style Icons, Newbridge Silverware has a collection of garments, awards, and personal jewellery which once belonged to the late actress. Items on display also includes items from the actress' personal life

Launching the exhibition, model Pat Mulcahy was pictured wearing one of Betty White's favourite tracksuits as well as a jumper reading 'St Olafants', a nod to the fictional town from which Betty's Golden Girls character Rose hailed from. Betty's career in television and film spanned an impressive seven decades.

The much-loved entertainer died on New Year's Eve in 2021, just days away from her 100th birthday. Betty is perhaps today best known for playing Rose for seven seasons of Golden Girls.

Her other gigs included roles in The Proposal alongside Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, Ally McBeal and That '70's Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In 1952, she became the first woman to product a sitcom, Life With Elizabeth, in which she also starred.

The Betty White's Golden Moment's exhibition runs all summer before the property and garments will be sold by Julien's Auctions in LA between of September 23 and 25 this year. It will be free to visit.

Martin Nolan of Julien's Auctions said: "We are honoured to work with her Estate in this exclusive presentation of these precious artefacts and personal mementos from her...