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as mcclanahan told people in 1986: "i've always been lucky enough to marry good s. One ed greek. One ed tex-mex – chili and stuff." then, with a laugh, she added, "true, one needed a recipe to make a peanut butter sandwich ..
Time to put Betty White in a protective bubble.Golden Girls Star Rue McClanahan Dies at 76
By Charlotte Triggs and Stephen M. Silverman
Update Thursday June 03, 2010 11:45 AM EDT
Originally posted Thursday June 03, 2010 11:15 AM EDT
Girl Rue McClanahan has died at the age of 76.
"She passed away at 1 a.m. this morning," her manager, Barbara Lawrence, tells PEOPLE. "She had a massive stroke."
McClanahan, who played man-happy Blanche Devereaux on the still-popular '80s sitcom Golden Girls, had suffered a minor stroke earlier this year while recovering from bypass surgery. Lawrence adds that at the time of her death Thursday, McClanahan “had her family with her. She went in peace."
Still in syndication, Golden Girls ran on NBC from 1985 to 1992. Only last year, McClanahan's costar, Beatrice Arthur, died from cancer. Estelle Getty died in 2008. Surviving star Betty White, 88, is currently enjoying a remarkable resurgence in her career, having recently hosted Saturday Night Live.
Born in Healdton, Okla., Rue lived in six towns by the time she was 8. Her father was a road builder who moved from one project to another. She found solace in acting ("the only thing I ever wanted to do") and after four years at the University of Tulsa moved to New York, where she worked as a part-time file clerk while trying to find jobs in the theater.
Her first job was off Broadway, in 1957, and she finally hit Broadway in 1969. TV work came from soap operas, until she made it on CBS's Maude, starring Beatrice Arthur, starting in 1972. She played Maude's best friend Vivian.
But it was Golden Girls that put her on the map and led to fame, fortune – and several husbands. In all, she had six, including actor Morrow Wilson, whom she wed in 1997 and who survives her, as does a son, Mark Bish, from her first marriage.
As McClanahan told PEOPLE in 1986: "I've always been lucky enough to marry good cooks. One cooked Greek. One cooked Tex-Mex – chili and stuff." Then, with a laugh, she added, "True, one needed a recipe to make a peanut butter sandwich ..."
as mcclanahan told people in 1986: "i've always been lucky enough to marry good s. One ed greek. One ed tex-mex – chili and stuff." then, with a laugh, she added, "true, one needed a recipe to make a peanut butter sandwich ..
thank you for being a friend, Rue...rip.
Damn... just damn.
R.I.P. RMcC
Honey, this is misinformation. I didn't die of a stroke, I died from stroking a massive young man until he exploded.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...ex.html?hpt=T2
EDIT: dammit, didn't see the other one.
RIP Rue
Where's her troll?
Condolences, midge.
2008 Estelle Getty
2009 Bea Arthur
2010 Rue McClanahan
2011 uh, oh
What chu talkin bout Shoog?
Oh never mind I'm gone also
well that is the 3
dennis hopper
gary coleman
Rue McClanahan
This makes 3?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100603/..._mcclanahan_10
NEW YORK – Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76.
Her manager, Barbara Lawrence, said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of a brain hemorrhage.
She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on "aging gracefully." In 2009, she had heart bypass surgery.
McClanahan had an active career in off-Broadway and regional stages in the 1960s before she was tapped for TV in the 1970s for the key best-friend character on the hit series "Maude," starring Beatrice Arthur. After that series ended in 1978, McClanahan landed the role as Aunt Fran on "Mama's Family" in 1983.
But her most loved role came in 1985 when she co-starred with Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty in "The Golden Girls," a runaway hit that broke the sitcom mold by focusing on the foibles of four aging — and frequently eccentric — women living together in Miami.
"Golden Girls" aimed to show "that when people mature, they add layers," she told The New York Times in 1985. "They don't turn into other creatures. The truth is we all still have our child, our adolescent, and your young woman living in us."
I'm such an idiot. Didn't even see the other thread. No wonder my threads suck.
were your brains in your toe?I'm such an idiot. Didn't even see the other thread. No wonder my threads suck.
I didn't even know who she was. Till now I mean.
Oh man, I was hoping we wouldn't be losing any more Golden Girls this soon
I thought yours was the stamp of mediocrity?
Betty White: There can be only one Golden Girl!
Rip
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