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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 26 > Bea Arthur was the ‘isle of sanity’ on the long-running ‘Golden Girls’

Bea Arthur was the ‘isle of sanity’ on the long-running ‘Golden Girls’

Emmy- and Tony-winning actress was 86

By Claudia Luther / The Bulletin
April 26, 2009

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 Golden Girls,” died Saturday. She was 86.

Arthur, a stage-trained actress who was a....

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