Betty White
Betty White is the queen of the comeback. She got her start in the '50s a an assistant at a local television station and worked her way up to writing, acting and producing a show called "Life With Elizabeth." She was a favorite booking of "Tonight Show" host Jack Paar, a frequent guest star in popular shows like "Petticoat Junction" and The United States Steel Hour" and made such regular appearances on "Password" that she met her third husband/self-proclaimed love of her life Allen Ludden on it in 1961. Her first big break was playing sarcastic, sexy Sue Ann Nivens