Betty White Movie Coming To Howard County On Her 100th Birthday, Get Tickets Now

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — American icon Betty White will be honored with a nationwide screening of a film that celebrates her lengthy life both on stage and behind the scenes. The movie will show Jan. 17, which would've been the actor, comedian and activist's 100th birthday, with special showings in 900 theaters, including a few in Howard County.

White died on New Year's Eve at the age of 99. Originally titled "Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration," the film directed by Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein is now known as "Betty White: A Celebration."

The documentary follows White's eight-decade career includes what is now White's final on-screen interview, as well as tributes from Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Leno, Carol Burnett, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Valerie Bertinelli, James Corden, Wendie Malick and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Boettcher and Trinklein said that over the course of filming the documentary, they developed "a great love and admiration for Betty as a person, and as an accomplished entertainer."

"We will go forward with our plans to show the film ... in hopes our film will provide a way for all who loved her to celebrate her life — and experience what made her such a national treasure," they said in a statement shortly after White's death was announced.

White was best known for her roles in her younger years as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and later in her career as the naive and often-childlike Rose Nylund on "The Golden Girls." She also was the first woman to produce a national TV show, the first woman to star in a sitcom and the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination, according to the PBS documentary "Betty White: First Lady of Television." Over the span of her career, White was honored with eight Emmy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

She was married three times, the last time to Allen Ludden in 1963.

"I had the love of my life," she told People in a 2010 interview. He died in 1981, and White never remarried.

White's assistant reportedly told Carol Burnett that White called out Ludden's name moments before she died.

Tickets are on sale now for the Jan. 17 screenings at the following locations:

• AMC Columbia Mall 14, 10300 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD 21044-3341
• Regal Snowden Square 14, 9161 Commerce Center Drive, Columbia, MD 21046
• Regal Laurel Town Center 12, 14716 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, MD 20707

READ THE OBITUARY: Betty White, An American Treasure, Dies At 99

Editor Nikki Gaskins contributed to this article.