Don't forget the hyper-feminist show "Maude".
Posted on 04/25/2009 1:11:18 PM PDT by buccaneer81
`Golden Girls' star Bea Arthur dies at 86
LYNN ELBER
LOS ANGELES - Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" and who won a Tony Award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday. She was 86.
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She brought laughter to the American people and continues to do so in syndication. And in these times, we need laughter.
RIP
I always belived her to actually be a man and didn’t really care for her, but RIP anyway
My most vivid memory of her was as “Maude” when she got an abortion. I didn’t really enjoy her much after that.
Don't forget the hyper-feminist show "Maude".
In the former she played Maude Findlay, an outspoken "limousine" liberal living in Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York; the show was a spinoff from All in the Family, on which Arthur had appeared in the same role, playing Edith Bunker's cousin, whom Archie couldn't stand. In the latter she played the character Dorothy Zbornak, a middle-aged woman who lived in a Florida house with two room mates (Betty White and Rue McClanahan) and Dorothy's short-tempered yet hip old mother, played by Estelle Getty. One of the most ironic things about casting Getty in this role was that she is actually two months younger than Arthur, so Getty was heavily made-up to seem significantly older. On stage, her roles included "Lucy Brown" in the 1954 Off-Broadway premiere of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, "Yente the Matchmaker" in the 1964 premiere of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and a 1966 Tony Award-winning portrayal of "Vera Charles" in Mame. In 1981, she appeared in Woody Allen's The Floating Lightbulb; two decades later she toured the U.S. in a one-woman show which opened in Broadway in 2002 as Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends. In real life, Arthur was good friends with legendary actress and former co-star Angela Lansbury, and in real life Arthur did not get along with Betty White for most of the time that they worked together on Golden Girls, but they have since become close, especially in light of their mutual friend, Estelle Getty's health woes. Arthur was born in New York City, but she grew up in Maryland. She became a medical technologist before World War II, when she volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps, becoming one of its first female recruits. She was married for many years to her second husband, director Gene Saks, with whom she adopted two sons http://www.corpsstories.com/ArthurBea.htm
I did too, even the moniker “B. Arthur”,was like an inside joke, and always thought the scarf etc around the throat was to hide an adam’s apple
That’s right. She was a soldier in the army of death.
As the Maude character, she would love to drive Archie Bunker crazy.
RIP Bea.
I never liked her in anything. Not even those big long sweaters and scarves.
I agree! She really was a staunch fem-nazi, May god have mercy on her soul.
“If your cousin Maude says one wrong word to me, we’re gonna be leaving before the bride takes the shower.”
I hope she’s “resting in peace.”
Archie Bunker: Roosevelt sold us out to Joe Stalin at Gibraltar. Maude: They met at Yalta. Archie Bunker: He sold us out there too.
Archie often had great wisdom.
All in the Family: Maude (3 Parts)
Adrienne Barbeau not playing as Carol though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlLJ2v8dMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmWbwvRwag&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cODfmrBolu8&feature=related
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