Estelle Getty (of The Golden Girls) Dies (1 Viewer)

[WillG]

ESTELLE GETTY DEAD AT 84
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted: 1:30 pm
July 22, 2008

Actress Estelle Getty has died.

Her son, Carl Gettleman, says the co-star of the TV show "The Golden Girls" died early Tuesday at home in Los Angeles. Gettleman says she suffered from advanced dementia.

The diminutive actress spent 40 years struggling for success before landing the role of a lifetime in 1985, playing the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on "The Golden Girls."

I can't say I was a big fan of "The Golden Girls" but I know some people here were. To those who were, sorry for the news.

 

[todd s]

Just watched her last night in Mannequin.

RIP. :frowning:

 

[Malcolm R]

Sophia, one of the great comic characters of all time, had tons of great lines, but this comeback was one of my favorites:

Miles Webber: Rose, I've never met anyone quite like you.
Sophia: Check the corn field on Hee-Haw.

It's a shame Estelle was fighting dementia over the past several years and couldn't enjoy the resurgence in popularity of The Golden Girls.

Farewell, Estelle! Hopefully the clouds have lifted wherever you are and you're tossing off zingers left and right, once again as sharp as Sophia.

 

[MatthewA]

I knew this day would come, yet it still breaks my heart.

Thank you for being a friend.

 

[Chris Lockwood]

I always wondered how many Golden Girls fans realized Estelle was about the same age as her co-stars although she played the mother of one of them.

 

[Marianne]

Some memorable Sophia quotes from IMdb:

Sophia: Make way for the victors.
Rose: You won the big game?
Sophia: No, Rose. We lost and we all changed our names to Victor.

Rose: Heaven is full of cows, chickens, horses and pigs...
Sophia: I hope Heaven has *boots*!

Blanche: [referring to her brother and his lover visiting] My goodness, what would the neighbors think if they saw two men lying in my bed?
Sophia: They'd think it's Tuesday!

Rose: Sophia, why are you in such a bad mood?
Sophia: Excuse me Rose, but I haven't had sex in fifteen years and its starting to get on my nerves.

Stan: I know everything about basketball - it's one of the interesting things about me.
Sophia: Please. You've lived here for two months; there's nothing interesting about you.
Stan: Go on, ask me anything.
Sophia: All right... when are you moving out?

 

[Ed Moroughan]

I always, even as a kid and now as an adult, wished I had a Grandmother like Sophia. She just was so funny and cut straight to the heart of the matter all the time. I think my fave bit with her would be the two parter about Dorothy having Chronic Fatigue. At the end when they're out for dinner, and Dorothy orders a $400 bottle of champagne, and Sophia rescues them from paying for it..."Now, it's a celebration!" and she cackles. Great stuff.

RIP Estelle.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I certainly didn't! I was shocked to read that she was a) still alive and b) only 84, making her sixty-something during the show's run.

 

[Michael Reuben]

Harvey Fierstein, the Broadway actor and playwright, wrote a wonderful tribute to his old friend and colleague in the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/...con_121425.htm

M.

 

[Rob P S]

YouTube - SOPHIA CRIES (The Golden Girls)

RIP

 

[TonyD]