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Betty White’s Celebration shows her latest video message to all fans, in theaters for her 100th birthday

Betty White filmed a video message on December 20 to send a thank-you note to her fans before celebrating her 100th birthday on Monday.

“The video was Betty White’s idea, not mine,” said Stephen Butcher, producer of the upcoming movie, Betty White: 100 Years Young.

“Betty wanted to be generous with her fans and say thank you. So she shined, and I called her, and I went to the camera.”

The hilarious short message, captured from her home in Brentwood, California, were White’s last public words to her fans around the world. Five days later, White suffered a stroke on Christmas Day, which eventually led to the death of the big and beloved TV star on December 31 at the age of 99.

The video message has been added to the honoring ceremony for a revamped movie that is still slated to show one night in theaters on Monday. The documentary is now called “Betty White: A Celebration” and has been extended to 1,500 theaters across the country with Fathom Events.

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“That’s literally the last thing I or either of us from my house heard,” Butcher says, “so it’s obviously bittersweet.”

The documentary movie features White and key interviews (including Ryan Reynolds and Carol Burnett) from beloved career chapters including “The Golden Girls,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Hot In Cleveland,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and movies such as “The Proposal,” which started the hilariously spicy mutual-crush between White and Reynolds.

Butcher had been dating White for so long that she would joke to her friends and say, “He’s been into me for the past 10 years,” Boucher recalls. Then she winks at everyone in the room like, ‘You know what I mean. “

When White passed away on New Year’s Eve, there was a debate about canceling the theatrical show out of respect for the cultural icon. But Betty’s team is adamant that this continues, and Betty White wants this to continue,” says Butcher, who produced the film with Mike Trinklin.

Besides the change of title and added video message from White, Boettcher has found praiseworthy moments from the current interviews – including words from “Hot in Cleveland” Valerie Bertinelli and Jennifer Love-Hewitt, the latter who approached White while working on the Hallmark 2011 movie “Love”. the lost”.

“They were so close and Jennifer’s message was really nice,” says Stephen Butcher.

In previously filmed footage, Reynolds showed his usual sense of humor imagining a world without white.

Stephen Butcher recalls: “Ryan said, ‘I am sure that one day there will be many statues erected in honor of Betty White. And she’ll have a joke about the things that are going to be held in her name.”

The director believes “Betty White: A Celebration” is a fitting one-night farewell to audiences able to safely celebrate his shining star in theaters.

“This is one of those really special moments that brings us together,” says Stephen Butcher.