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Allen and Grant Tinker’s Letterhead

30 Monday May 2022

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Allen & Grant Tinker were best friends. When Allen was courting Betty, he had Grant & Mary join them for dinner and make observations, which Mary later comically described. The men later joined forces in EllTee Productions. Betty recounted:

Allen had maintained offices in Hollywood but moved Albets Enterprises, Inc., to the Valley when he found office space next door to the MTM lot. This was most convenient, for as well as his on-camera work, he had formed a partnership with Grant. EllTee Productions (for Ludden-Tinker) was to develop new daytime game shows.

Here We Go Again: My Life on Television (2010 revision), page 244.

Allen wrote to thank Betty’s fan club president, Kay Daly, for gifting him with a copy of the 1975 book, “Games of the World.” Because the letter is dated on October 8th, we can assume than it was a present for his birthday on October 5. If that indeed the case, Allen was very prompt with his note!


And Our First Item Is… The Marriage Certificate

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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Fittingly, we’ll start with the marriage certificate. Betty and Allen were married in Las Vegas at the Sands on Friday, June 14, 1963. The judge, David Zenoff, is the same one that married Allen’s BFF, Grant Tinker, to wife Mary Tyler Moore. Betty’s parents served as the witnesses.

Please observe:

  • Betty’s father, Horace White, had a signature that was quite similar to that of his daughter.
  • See the address written at the top? That’s likely Allen’s mailing address at the time; though the newlyweds and family would move into a different home within two months of the marriage.

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