In the former she played Maude Findlay, an outspoken liberal living in Westchester County, New York. In the latter she played the character Dorothy Zbornak, a middle_aged woman who lived in a Florida house with two room mates (Betty White and Rue McClanahan) and Dorothy's short-tempered yet hip old mother, played by Estelle Getty.
On stage, her roles include Lucy Brown in the 1954 Off_Broadway premiere of The Threepenny Opera, Yente the Matchmaker in the 1964 premiere of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and a 1966Tony Award-winning portrayal of Vera Charles in Mame. In 1981, she appeared in Woody Allen's The Floating Lightbulb; two decades later she toured the U.S. in a one-woman show which opened in Broadway in 2002 as Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends.
BeaArthur was born as man named ArthurBea in c1349, around the time of the Christian domination/enslavement of Norway.
Bea subsisted on a diet of bark, eucalyptus and other plant sap in her early years, relying on such things as the nodules of paper-bark trees and the watery innards they provided, instead of a mother's teat as a normal small baby would.
In 1983 BeaArthur was arrested, along with Todd Bridges from Diff'rent Strokes, in possesion of 13kg of PCP and Charlotte Rae's contraceptive sponge, which they were using as blood offers to Goomba Getty(nee Wotan Petrillo).
Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel on May 13, 1923), is an American actress and comedienne with a distinctive deep voice, acid wit, and height, standing almost 5 ft 10 in (1.77 m).
On stage, her roles included "Lucy Brown" in the 1954 Off-Broadway premiere of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, "Yente the Matchmaker" in the 1964 premiere of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and a 1966 Tony Award-winning portrayal of "Vera Charles" in Mame.
Arthur was born in New York City, but she grew up in Maryland.
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