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In a television landscape that is now mostly crime and reality procedures, it’s hard to imagine someone lighting a show for four gray girls (mostly) sharing a house in Miami, where conflicts revolutionized around things like bowling teams and dance competitions — but that’s what happened when NBC happened The golden women. Created by Soap mastermind Susan HarrisThe series was immediately popular when ended on September 14, 1985, winning all of its four stars Emmys and reaching millions of viewers throughout its seven seasons.
Who were involved
It is arguable that the leaders are now best known for their Golden Girls Characters, but most of them were big stars from the beginning. Bea Arthur (Dorothy no llol) and Rue mcclanahan (Blanche hungry with a man) divided the small screen on Maaudewhile Betty White (ditzy rose) has appeared on Mary Tyler Moore Show (among about a million other things). ESTELLE GETTY (Sharp Sophia), meanwhile, he was a mostly theater actress who had just made Splash Broadway in Torch song trilogy. The show also hosted superstars as Burt Reynolds and Alex Trebekplay themselves.
Why do we remember
His 180 episodes were very funny and still very funny, but the stars became unbiased friends. “There were people on television who looked like those women, and definitely didn’t talk about what those four girls were talking about,” Season 1 writer Stan Zimmerman only says Weekly US. Even in the Conservative 1980s culturally, the women spoke bluntly about sexuality, HIV/AIDS, abusive partners and more. “We wanted the stories to come out of the characters and be subjects that these women would deal with in their real life,” he explained.
Jim Colucciauthor Golden girls forevercredits the show’s success in part to the nostalgia above. “There was rarely a show on television with a comedy writing so sharp and performances,” he explained to Us. “It didn’t matter that it was about old girls, and I was a teenager; it was much funnier than anything else on the air!”
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Key Details
McClanahan, Arthur and White in a chapter in 1991 from ‘The Golden Girls.’
Everett CollectionAfter 40 years, the sitcom’s literature behind the scenes is as well known as his cheese worship. Getty was actually a year younger than the TV girl Arthur, and Arthur didn’t come along with Gwyn – as much as she would often Call White the C-AirHarris recently claimed. Colucci and Zimmerman attribute the friction to their working styles. “Bea liked to stay ‘on a book’ (with his script) until the very last minute and stay focused throughout tapping a chapter,” said Colucci Us. “Betty liked to remember her lines at the start of the week and still get enough bandwidth to clown around with the audience between scenes.”
The result
White, Arthur and McClanahan in 2008, receiving the TV Land Pop Culture Award.
OD Williams/Getty imagesIn 1992, four months after the finale, Save Arthur returned for the sequence The golden palaceWhere Blanche, Rose and Sophia became a guest. He checked after 24 episodes – but the original is syndication and streaming success. (Hold it on Hulu.) And over the years, the girls have inspired almost everything: animation, theater, restaurant, board games, international television versions, cozy mysteries (Death on the Lanai Out in 2026), counters of innumerable and even, uh, porn.
Colucci nor Zimmerman do not believe a modern restart in the cards, nevertheless. “Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty iconic in those roles, are too perfect to replace – and I’ll bet there is hardly an actress out there who would even dare to try,” said Colucci. “I can’t imagine most fans accepting anything with the Golden Title with four new women, no matter how talented and prominent they can be in the world of comedy today. The original show was a bit too perfect, a moment of magic that can never be second -holding. “
Zimmerman added: “We don’t need it! Let’s keep it as it is.”
While millions of fans thanked Bea Arthur and Betty White – and the rest of their golden women’s costs – for being their friend, the actresses were not always close. “It was almost like Betty had become her nemesis, someone she could always roll her eyes at work,” said Arthur’s eldest son, Matthew Saks, at closer (…)
A new perspective
Not all that Golden has stayed that way (the episode where the women masked mud are mistaken as black-face-wearing, for one), but the classic has a particularly vocal Fandom in the LGBTQIA+ community. Colucci credits his loving portrait of a chosen family: “The main ingredient in the recipe for the Lady‘Simply love is success. Almost everyone can identify with the idea that we have a friend or two or three who feels more like a sister than our real biological relations, so we build proxy families and hold them tightly. “
Where are they now?
Chairman Director $ 76,800 White.
By the kindness of Julien auctionEveryone is gone, unfortunately. White, Arthur and McClanahan last reunited in 2008 to receive the TV Land Pop Culture Award; The illness Getty would die five weeks later. White made to 99 years old In 2021! When her personal memorabilia was auction shortly thereafter, it was the No. 1 item Golden Girls Chairman of the Director, captured for $ 76,800. But who can put a price on the magic they did?
