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legacies Honoree Betty White (No. 46) with presenter Sandra Bullock. I t all started in 1962 with the presentation of a gold membership card to Eddie Cantor, then a former president of Screen Actors Guild. It began what has become a treasured SAG-AFTRA tradition: The SAG Life Achievement Award. Since then, the award has been given out nearly every year — skipping only 1964 and 1981 — making this year's award to Rita Moreno the 50th to be bestowed. In those first few years, the form of the award changed, from a card to a glass bowl, but by the third year, when Bob Hope was honored, it settled on its familiar shape: The bronze comedy and tragedy masks on a black marble base. 57 SAG-AFTRA | Special Issue 2014 | SAGAFTRA.org