But she never did. And that was rather odd, because she was a very shy, private person. After exiting Golden Girls in , Arthur worked sparingly. Since , she made guest-starring appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Futurama.
Please keep checking back for further updates:. She was such a big part of my life. I am deeply saddened by her passing, but also relieved that she is released from the pain. I spoke to Matt, her son, yesterday and I was aware that her time was imminent. She was a rare and unique performer and a dear, dear friend. The stage was dark, and she came out in the highest of heels and dressed to kill.
The Golden Girls is a classic television show for several reasons. For one, it truly broke new ground. At the time, most sitcoms focused on either families or young people. However, this show focused on a group of older women.
It may have looked at many of the same scenarios as other shows. But it did so through a completely different lens. The studio thought that the show would be a hit with older women. It was. However, it turned out to be more than just a niche hit. People of all ages loved the show. Today, The Golden Girls and its stars are adored by fans of all ages. The show is in syndication in over one hundred countries. Even though abortion was legal in New York State, it was illegal in many other regions of the country, and as such sparked controversy.
As a result, dozens of affiliates refused to broadcast the episode when it was originally scheduled, substituting either a repeat from earlier in the season or a Thanksgiving TV special in its place. However, by the time of the summer rerun season six months later all the flak had died down, and the stations that refused to air the episode upon its first run reinstated it for the reruns the following summer.
As a result, a reported 65 million viewers watched the two episode arc either in their first run that November or during the following summer as a re-run. The episode aired two months before the U. Supreme Court legalized the procedure nationwide in the Roe v. Wade outcome in early After appearing in the short-lived sitcom Amanda's an adaptation of the British series Fawlty Towers , Arthur was cast in the sitcom The Golden Girls in , in which she played Dorothy Zbornak , a divorced substitute teacher living in a Miami house owned by Blanche Devereaux Rue McClanahan.
Getty was actually a year younger than Arthur in real life, and was heavily made up to look significantly older. The series became a hit, and remained a top-ten ratings fixture for seven seasons. Her performance led to several Emmy nominations over the course of the series and an Emmy win in Arthur decided to leave the show after seven years, and in the show was moved from NBC to CBS and retooled as The Golden Palace in which the other three actresses reprised their roles.
Arthur made a guest appearance in a two-part episode. After Arthur left The Golden Girls , she made several memorable guest appearances on television shows. On the American cartoon Futurama , in the Emmy-nominated episode "Amazon Women in the Mood", she provided the voice of the Femputer who ruled the giant Amazonian women. She also appeared in a first-season episode of Malcolm in the Middle as Mrs. White, Dewey's babysitter, who is taken away in an ambulance for reasons unknown.
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