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BarTopDancer
07-22-2008, 11:22 AM
Age 84 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_en_tv/obit_getty;_ylt=ApFRtlyjZrjiajIjlRGTU7Os0NUE).
Gemini Cricket
07-22-2008, 11:22 AM
:(
innerSpaceman
07-22-2008, 11:23 AM
This isn't going to affect you getting the job, is it??
Gemini Cricket
07-22-2008, 11:26 AM
This isn't going to affect you getting the job, is it??
No. Thank goodness.
Alex
07-22-2008, 11:30 AM
What is amazing to me is that she is only 84. This, of course, means she was 43 when making Golden Girls.
SzczerbiakManiac
07-22-2008, 11:31 AM
Thank you for being our friend Estelle.
Tref
07-22-2008, 11:32 AM
Thank you for being our friend Estelle.

Maybe a friend to you but she never returned my calls.
Isaac
07-22-2008, 12:11 PM
:(

http://www.goldengirlscentral.com/CastA7.jpg
Snowflake
07-22-2008, 12:43 PM
As much as I loved Anne Bancroft, I do with Getty had been cast in the filmed version of Torch Song Trilogy, she was terrific onstage when I saw this in NY. RIP Estelle
alphabassettgrrl
07-22-2008, 02:09 PM
Sad.
lashbear
07-22-2008, 04:13 PM
I am a massive GG Fan. :(

Looks like time to re-watch seasons 1-4 that I have on DVD.

I'll see if any others have been released here...

...It's be nice to see a retrospective about her. Can someone please capture it for me if one shows over there ?
Gemini Cricket
07-23-2008, 08:12 AM
Bea Arthur, who played her on-screen daughter Dorothy Zbornak, called their partnership "one of the greatest comic duos", adding: "I will miss her."
Rue McClanahan, Blanche in the series, said: "She'll always be with us in her crowning achievement, Sophia Petrillo."
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7520370.stm)
cirquelover
07-23-2008, 09:42 AM
What is amazing to me is that she is only 84. This, of course, means she was 43 when making Golden Girls.

You almost had me for a minute there but GG wasn't filmed 40 years ago. I remember watching it and I'm not that old, thank you!

She was a funny lady and will be missed!
Alex
07-23-2008, 09:46 AM
Yeah, I just meant that she wasn't nearly as old as she played in the show.

The amusing thing, to me, was that Getty was actually younger than than both Bea Arthur and Betty White (by about a year).
cirquelover
07-23-2008, 09:55 AM
I didn't know that, she played the old lady well then!

Also, I am over 40 but knew I hadn't watched GG when I was 2 or something like that. I was just trying the math and realized you were playing with us, so I had to comment!