Betty White Stirs Up "The Proposal"

Former "Golden Girl," Who Stars New Movie, Has Charmed Audiences For More Than 60 Years

(CBS)  Five-time Emmy winner Betty White has been making audiences laugh for more than 60 years. Now, she's bringing her talents back to the big screen, co-starring with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in "The Proposal."

"Sixty-one (years working in show business), but who's counting!" White told Early Show co-anchors Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez and Julie Chen.

White admits she still has to pinch herself and say, "How lucky am I?"

"Boy, do I ever! And I even have people in to pinch me!" she joked, reminiscing about the days when entertained the troops.

In "The Proposal," Bullock plays Reynolds' boss. When she learns she's about to be deported because she's Canadian, she forces him to marry her. The fun really kicks in when Reynolds takes Bullock to meet her family in Alaska and she meets Granny (White).

White says she had a blast on the set of "The Proposal." "I cannot tell you enough. Those people are the nicest people, and our director, Anne Flecher, ... was as nuts as the rest of us! The chemistry between everybody -- we hated to see the movie end. We hated to part with each other.

"But Sandra and Ryan Reynolds are two incredible people. They're not only funny and gorgeous and all that, but they're such down-to-earth, non-movie star people. They're just -- oh, it was a ball! It really was."

Bullock's husband, Jesse James visited her on set several times. There was a rumor that Bullock spotted White flirting with her husband.

True or false, Betty?

"False," she said. "You know who started that rumor? Sandra Bullock!"

"He's (James) tattooed over. I can't tell you all of his body, but everything that I saw -- and sometimes my mental editor just goes to sleep. Down his fingers and his arms. And tattoos don't turn me on. But they evidently turn Sandra on a lot!"

What about bald heads?

"Oh, that gets me every time," she joked.

You can see a sneak preview of "The Proposal" in theaters this weekend, and it opens nationwide next Friday, June 19.

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