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Estelle Getty passed away early tuesday at her home. She was 84.

A great actress indeed. Shameless when it came to a joke.

Too sad, she was great in delivering the punch lines.

I thought that she was much older than 84.

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Too sad, she was great in delivering the punch lines.

I thought that she was much older than 84.

I seem to recall that she was not even the oldest of the "Golden Girls." She just played a much older character.

That's true... she was the second to youngest. Only Rue Mclanahan (Blanche) was younger than her.

Oh Ma.

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Mayonnaise wrote:That's true... she was the second to youngest. Only Rue Mclanahan (Blanche) was younger than her.

Oh Ma.

8^(

She was even a year younger than Bea Arthur, who played her daughter.

Though being younger than the character she played did allow her to take the white wig off a few times and play a younger version of herself in flashbacks. In those instances, because Bea couldn't do that same thing they had to have a different actress play a younger Dorothy.

Speaking of Bea, did anyone see the parody of Sex in the City with Bea Arthur, Charlotte Rae, Sally Struthers and (I think) Katherine Helmond?

-Rob

Aww Sophia. She really made me appreciate the closeness I have with my mom. And, much like Dorothy, I also theaten my mother with sending her and my dad to "Shady Pines." My mom gets a good laugh out of it; my father just protests that he won't be sent to a home.

Thankfully at 79, my dad's still strong and independent enough to live at home with my 68 year old (and still working!) mom. (I'm only 23 so I was uh quite the surprise to my siblings.)

Estelle Getty's Sophia character reminded me of my own grandmother on my mom's side of the family... Both from New York with similar accents, though Sophia is/was Italian, and my grandmother was Austrian/Polish ancestry

*sniff, sniff.

I was so sad when I read the news yesterday. I absolutely adore Sophia's one liners, always a laugh a minute. And if it wasn't for my college roommate that I had in 2004, I would have never gotten into The Golden Girls.

So with that, RIP Estelle Getty. You will be dearly missed.

When the Golden Girls was first run, my mom loved watching it--she still watches the reruns. I remember one time I was working as a security guard at what was then a Gemco store in North Hollywood, and I got off shift and as I got into mom's car, she said " I wish they'd let you get off a little sooner--we gotta hurry and get home before the Golden Girls come on!" No, we did not own a VCR at that time.