Beatrice Arthur was an American actress and comedian. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in Mame. She went on to play Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family, appearing 1971–1972, and Maude, as well as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s 1990s sitcom The Golden Girls. In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends. She died in New York City on September 25, 2013.
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Beatrice Arthur was an American actress and comedian. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in Mame. She went on to play Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family, appearing 1971–1972, and Maude, as well as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s 1990s sitcom The Golden Girls. Her film appearances include Lovers and Other Strangers and Mame. In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends. She was married to fellow Marine Robert Alan Aurthur, but kept his surname with the spelling adjusted to \”Arthur. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994 portraying the Duchess of Krakenthorp, a speaking role, in Gaetano Donizetti’s La fille du régiment. She died in New York City on September 25, 2013. She is survived by her daughter Carol and her son Walter. She had a daughter with her fourth husband, Walter Walter Arthur, and a son-in-law with her fifth husband, Robert Arthur, who is also an actor. She also had a son with her sixth husband, Michael Arthur, whom she married in 1998. She has two grandchildren with her seventh husband, David Arthur, a television producer and former NFL player. Her great-great-granddaughter is actress and actress-to-be Amy Sherman-Palladino, who appeared in the TV series “American Idol” and “The Voice” with her daughter, Victoria Justice, in 2011.
Her grandson is actor and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who also appeared on “The Tonight Show” with David Letterman and “Saturday Night Live” as a guest star. She appeared in a number of films, including “Lone Ranger,” “The Godfather,” and “Gone with the Wind”. She also appeared in “The Color Purple” and the film version of The Godfather: Part II, “The Secret of the American Dream” in which she played the role of a woman whose husband had been killed in a car crash. She starred in a role in the film “The Great Gatsby” in the 1990s, which she later reprised in the television series “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and on the stage in “Mame” She was a member of an off-Broadway theater group at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the late 1940s. In 1971, Arthur was invited by Norman Lear to guest-star on sitcom All in The Family, as Maude, the cousin of Edith Bunker. She described her role as “New Deal fanatic Archie Bunker, who was considered the antithesis of his liberal feminist role” Nearly 50 years later, Arthur’s turn on All In the Family garnered her a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead actress in a Comedy Series. She later appeared in her own series, titled “Maude”, which she would later recall as titled “That is that girl? Let’s give her her own show”
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