Maude became a standard bearer for the growing feminist movement in America. Golden Girls (1985-1992) was another groundbreaking comedy, finding surprising success in a television market ...

Maude also featured Rue McClanahan, who rejoined Arthur on The Golden Girls. Arthur won an Emmy for Maude before repeating the feat in 1988 for The Golden Girls. Her departure from the series at ...

Arthur auditioned for “Golden Girls” after Dorothy was described ... and she said, ‘Rue, I have no interest in playing Maude and Vivian meets Sue Ann Nevins.’” Eventually, McClanahan ...

She embodied the strong-willed, fiercely independent Maude Findlay in the groundbreaking ... sharp-tongued Dorothy Zbornak in “The Golden Girls” from 1985 until 1992. But to Saks, Arthur ...

No other TV show with an older cast is as loved as The Golden Girls. When NBC debuted the series ... before finding success with Norman Lear’s Maude in the ’70s. She found more success on ...

To defy her as Maude Findlay in Maude, or as Dorothy Zbornak in Golden Girls, was foolish: she'd crush you. No one upstaged Bea Arthur, yet no one, performer or TV viewer, resented her for that.

telling People that he “learned early on from ‘Golden Girls’ that people are much more open to taking in new ideas when they’re laughing.” He also joked that the “Maude” star could ...

Frankel portrayed the brazen Dorothy Zbornak on "The Golden Girls" and staunch feminist "Maude" as that show's namesake. She flat-out denied her military service while alive, but service records ...

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.

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...