Emmy winning "Golden Girls" (which happens to be one of my favorite shows) actress Rue McClanahan died of a stroke in a New York hospital Thursday morning. She was 76. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Monday, and was surrounded by family when she died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She started working on the New York stage in the 1950s, but her long television career was first boosted when producer Norman Lear cast her in his hit CBS series "All in the Family" in 1971. She appeared in Lear's "Maude" a year later.
Her most memorable TV role was as Southern belle Blanche on the show the Golden Girls, which ran from 1985 through 1992. McClanahan won an Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy in 1987. Last year, McClanahan requested that no funeral be held for her, but memorial services will be announced for later this summer in New York and Los Angeles, California.
Her most memorable TV role was as Southern belle Blanche on the show the Golden Girls, which ran from 1985 through 1992. McClanahan won an Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy in 1987. Last year, McClanahan requested that no funeral be held for her, but memorial services will be announced for later this summer in New York and Los Angeles, California.
When i told my mom she was about tears, she loved McClanahan not only in the show the Golden Girls that she would watch every morning but as an actor in everyone of her pieces. I as well like the show and its a shame that only one of the girls is still alive. I think it will be creepy to watch the show now thinking that they are all dead except for Betty White.
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