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Bea Arthur Latest News

Birth Name:Bernice Frankel

Birth Place:New York City, New York, United States

Profession Actress, Soundtrack

The Golden Girls House Is For Sale, Wicker Not Included

Bring the cheesecake!

Thu, Jul 16, 2020
The Golden Girls House Is For Sale, Wicker Not Included

The Golden Girls Taught Us to Think About the Twilight Years Differently

The show gave us a reason to look forward to growing older

Tue, Jul 14, 2020
The Golden Girls Taught Us to Think About the Twilight Years Differently

Weekend TV: Rosemary's Baby, Penny Dreadful and Remembering Murphy

The devil made them remake it. What other excuse can there be for NBC's glossy but laborious two-part revisiting of the Ira Levin supernatural classic Rosemary's Baby (Sunday, 9/8c, concludes next Thursday)? Perversely scheduled to begin on the evening of Mother's Day, this unnecessarily expanded miniseries version owes a huge debt to The Omen for many of its telegraphed shocks.

Fri, May 9, 2014
Weekend TV: Rosemary's Baby, Penny Dreadful and Remembering Murphy

Jimmy Kimmel Did Not Buy Nude Bea Arthur Portrait

Jimmy Kimmel is a notorious prankster, but it turns out his biggest one yet was only an accident. Contrary to reports, it turns out the comedian was only joking about purchasing the nearly $2 million nude Bea Arthur portrait.

Sat, May 25, 2013
Jimmy Kimmel Did Not Buy Nude Bea Arthur Portrait

Did Jimmy Kimmel Pay Nearly $2 Million for the Nude Bea Arthur Painting?

Apparently Jimmy Kimmel is a very generous friend.

Sat, May 25, 2013
Did Jimmy Kimmel Pay Nearly $2 Million for the Nude Bea Arthur Painting?

Naked Painting of Golden Girls' Bea Arthur Sells for Nearly $2 Million

These are not the Golden Girls you were expecting. A painting of a topless Bea Arthur sold for $1.9 million to an anonymous buyer at Christie's auction house on Wednesday night, the New York Post reports. However...

Thu, May 16, 2013
Naked Painting of Golden Girls' Bea Arthur Sells for Nearly $2 Million

Keck's Exclusives: Marc Cherry's Top Secret Golden Girls Reunion First Look

Shhh. Here's an exclusive first look at writer/producer Marc Cherry's super top secret Golden Girls reunion project, starring from left to right: Betty White (Rose), Estelle Getty (Sophia), Bea Arthur (Dorothy) and Rue McClanahan (Blanche). No worries that three quarters of the cast passed away over the last few years, as no dialogue was written for this reunion. Rather, the skeletal ladies were on display as part of a Halloween lawn display treat for fortunate trick or treaters who visited Marc's L.A. home two weeks back.

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
Keck's Exclusives: Marc Cherry's Top Secret Golden Girls Reunion First Look

Rue McClanahan Dies at 76

Rue McClanahan, best known as Golden Girls' man-hungry Southern debutante Blanche Devereaux and Maude's scatterbrained Vivian Harmon, has died. She was 76.McClanahan suffered a massive stroke and died at ...

Thu, Jun 3, 2010
Rue McClanahan Dies at 76

Shattered TV Taboos: How Bea Arthur and Others Broke Barriers

Bea Arthur will be remembered not just for her dry delivery and deft timing but for knocking down television taboos. First in Maude, and later in the Golden Girls, she introduced sex-related firsts that other shows were scared to touch. Here's a look at some of the barriers broken by Arthur and other screen stars.First Married Couple to Share a Bed: Yes, there was a time it was considered wildly risqué to portray two married people sleeping together. But that time was the hilariously uptight 1950s, not swinging 1947, when the real-life married stars of...

Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Shattered TV Taboos: How Bea Arthur and Others Broke Barriers

Friends and Colleagues Remember Beatrice Arthur

Beatrice Arthur's friends and colleagues remembered the Emmy- and Tony-winning actress as a brave force in comedy whose talent and voice were one of a kind. "I knew it would hurt, I just didn't know it would hurt this much," said Betty White, Arthur's Golden Girls costar. "I'm so happy that she ...

Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Friends and Colleagues Remember Beatrice Arthur