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Posted to Media on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:34:37 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Dreams of one final reunion are now down the drain as Estelle Getty has passed on. The actress best known for her role as the wise-cracking Sophia on Golden Girls has passed away.
Getty labored for years before her big break with the 1985-1992 sitcom about four female retirees in Florida. She was nominated a combined nine times for Golden Globe and Emmy awards, picking up each prize once. She started her career as a stand-up comic at a time when it was exceptionally rare to be a woman in such a position. She also worked office jobs well into middle age even while she still tried to succeed as an actress.
Getty's character Sophia was not initially a major role on the Golden Girls sitcom. Getty's quick wit and tight delivery, however, grew her character into the show's linchpin. One running joke throughout the series was that Sophia's daughter Dorothy (played by Bea Arthur) would send her back to the retirement home Shady Pines. The show was an anomaly of sorts in American television as it balanced humor with often weighty topics, address issues faced by older women in society. One of the most popular shows in the history of television, it can still be found frequently on television more than 15 years after it first went off the air.
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