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Apr 3, 2014 · Early Career. Actress and comedienne Bea Arthur was born Bernice Frankel on May 13, 1922, in New York City. Known for her sharp wit, Arthur first attracted notice for her performance in the...
In 1985, Arthur was cast in The Golden Girls, in which she played Dorothy Zbornak, a divorced mother and substitute teacher living in a Miami, Florida, house owned by widow Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan, who had previously co-starred with Arthur in Maude).
Jul 15, 2015 · One of Bea Arthur’s final public performances before her death was in 2005 to support the Ali Forney Center, one of the nation’s largest organizations to assist LGBT homeless youth. “I’m very,...
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Apr 26, 2009 · Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear’s sitcom “Maude” and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running “The Golden Girls,” died Saturday.
- Claudia Luther
Mar 30, 2022 · Golden Girls and Maude star Bea Arthur died from lung cancerpeacefully and surrounded by family at her Los Angeles homeat 86 years old in 2009. The Broadway actress was famously introverted, and her son Matthew Saks, 59, gave some insight in recent years on his late mother’s private demeanor.
- Marisa Sullivan
- Senior Reporter
On April 25, 2009, at home with her family, Arthur died of cancer. She was 86. She was survived by her two sons, Matthew and Daniel, and her grandchildren, Kyra and Violet. In her will, she left $300,000 to New York's Ali Forney Center, an organization supporting homeless LGBT youths.
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Apr 25, 2009 · 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...
