Off screen, though, Getty was a year younger than Bea Arthur, who played Dorothy.
In some of the flashback episodes, Getty appeared without her famous wig and all the makeup.
She was born on January 17, 1922, almost four months before Bea Arthur.
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Both White and Arthur were 63 when the show premiered in 1985.
The producers underestimated the appeal of Estelle Getty, though.
Additionally, Rue McClanahan was supposed to play the Minnesota farm girl, Rose.
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“She was a completely different person the rest of the week,” McClanahan said.
“But once it was the day of the show, she was like Pigpen with a black cloud.
“It was a damn good script,” said Stritch later, while talking about blowing her audition.
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Turns out, Bea Arthur detested the dessert, according to IMDB.
Her outfits earned a real fanRue McClanahan.
McClanahan turned a kitchen in her New York City apartmentinto a closetto house her expanded wardrobe.
Arthur and McClanahan had worked together onMaude, while McClanahan had worked with White onMama’s Family.
“The Queen was lovely.
We were told not to address her unless we were addressed.
However, Arthur didn’t actually have pierced ears, so all of those earrings were clip-ons.
He appeared in the pilot episode of the show but was ultimately cut as the show became a series.
The producers apparently didn’t want to take away from the dynamic of the main cast.
“We had games going all the time off-camera.”
“I have a thing about gratuitous pain,” Getty explained once in an interview.
“Why would you make fun of somebody who’s fat or who’s cross-eyed or who’s bald?
And I won’t do gay-bashing jokes.”
This was seven years before his breakout role as Doug Ross onER.
Mulligan’s characterlived next doorto theGolden Girls.
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Elsmo M.George Geary, the man behind iconic Golden Girls cheesecakes.Wednesday Journal.
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Vergun D.Before Stage and Screen, Bea Arthur Shined as a Marine.
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Published October 13, 2021.
