masculinity. her second signature role was on the beloved series the golden girls as the comical rose my land. and they attacked chickens. i don t care about chickens, rose. she didn t call me chicken, she called me peacock. you look more like a chicken when you re angry, your neck sticks out. with the golden girls i got to play with those silly ladies every week and i loved rose . she wasn t the sharpest knife in the door but she wasn t done, she was just terminally naive. reporter: off screen white married three times, she called her third husband allen ludden the love of her life. they were together almost 20 years before he died of stomach cancer in 1981. and you never remarried. nope. when you have had the best who needs the rest. reporter: a devoted pat lover white has a long time advocate for animal welfare. she called television her hobby