Something wasn’t right with Betty White…

Meanwhile, Zimmerman’s initial impression of Betty White wasn’t all that positive. He revealed to Newsner that during tapings – if and when Estelle Getty messed up her lines – White would often turn to the studio audience and make jokes at Getty’s expense.

Zimmerman said: “She would walk up to the stands with the audience watching the taping and make jokes. And I thought that was very cruel of her.”

Though recently, as he has grown older, Stan has developed another perspective on it. He says: “And it was until recently when I thought, oh, maybe she was going over there to draw the attention of the audience and giving Estelle moments to collect herself and remember the lines.”

He also recalled some murmurs of tension between Bea and Betty, sharing: “I’ve heard stories, I didn’t see it particularly when we were there that there were some, I think, personality clashes between Bea and Betty. They had different working styles. So, because Bea was really a theater actress; you don’t break character. So for her to watch Betty just kind of become Betty and go up and talk in the middle of a scene, even though we were on a break, I think Bea did not like that.”