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Monday, April 27, 2009

Passing: Bea Arthur, Star of Stage & Two TV Comedies (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By BRUCE WEBER
Published: April 25, 2009

Bea Arthur, who used her husky voice, commanding stature and flair for the comic jab to create two of the most endearing battle-axes in television history, Maude Findlay in the groundbreaking situation comedy “Maude” and Dorothy Zbornak in “The Golden Girls,” died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was coy about her age, and sources give various dates for her birth, but a family spokesman, Dan Watt, said in an e-mail message she was 86.

Ms. Arthur received 11 Emmy Award nominations, winning twice — in 1977 for “Maude” and in 1988 for “The Golden Girls.”

She was a seasoned and accomplished theater actress and singer before she became a television star and a celebrity in midcareer, and she won a Tony Award in 1966 for playing Angela Lansbury's best friend, the drunken actress Vera Charles, in “Mame.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/arts/television/26arthur.html?scp=1&sq=Bea%20Arthur&st=cse

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