Most Recent Role: Herself/Archive Footage on Intimate Portrait
Alias Name(s): Estelle Gettleman, Stella Getty, Estelle Scher
Gender: Female
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Birthday: 7-25-1923
Birth Name: Estelle Scher
Date of Death: 7-22-2008
Cause of Death: Lewy Body Dementia - a progressive brain disease
Alias Name(s): Estelle Gettleman, Stella Getty, Estelle Scher
Gender: Female
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Birthday: 7-25-1923
Birth Name: Estelle Scher
Date of Death: 7-22-2008
Cause of Death: Lewy Body Dementia - a progressive brain disease
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For over 6 years Estelle Getty made the world laugh as "Sophia Petrillo" on the much talked about comedy series The Golden Girls , where she played one of televisions best known mothers.
Getty married husband Arthur Gettleman on December 21, 1947 and put off trying to start her acting career to raise their two sons, Barry and Carl.
In the 1970s, Estelle began acting in several stage...
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Bea Arthur
Monday 20 January 2003 on Lifetime
Bea Arthur: Brassy & Golden Bea Arthur was born on May 13,1923, in New York City. The awkwardly tall and shy girl often hid behind her wicked sense of humor. Although she longed to be a blond starlet, because of her height she was usually cast as a boy in school plays. After graduating...
Estelle was the first of the four lead women hired to star on The Golden Girls.
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After The Golden Girls became a hit, Estelle bought the first house she ever owned in her life.
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In 1982 Estelle won the Helen Hayes Award in the category of "Best Supporting Performer in a Touring Show" for her work in the play Torch Song Trilogy.
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Estelle attended the New School for Social Research in New York. She also trained in New York's Herbert Berghof Studio.
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In the 1940's Estelle worked as a stand-up comic in the Catskills, but soon gave up the idea when audiences failed to enjoy her routines.
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Estelle: (on her fellow "Golden Girls") We sure were simpatico! We'd laugh at the same jokes, we had the same feelings about animals and about the world. It was quite remarkable.
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Estelle: If you're a beautiful older woman, then you may get work. But if you're a plain older woman, or a fat older woman, or a short older woman, you'll find it harder to get a job.
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Estelle: Before [The Golden Girls], every single older person was a mother or a grandmother. Now there are neighbors, secretaries and people who have jobs who are older people. You see roles they've never been allowed in before."
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Estelle: I always had to fight against the fact that I could do things even though I was small. And eventually I proved to them I could play mother to six footers.
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Estelle: I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little, but the love the fact that I talk back to Dorothy.
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Other Appearances
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Empty Nest
Sophia Petrillo (Seasons 6-7) |
The Golden Girls
Sophia Petrillo |
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The Golden Palace
Sophia Petrillo |
Wish Kids
Old Lady/ Oracle of Wishes |
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The New Hollywood Squares
Herself |
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Blossom
I Ain't Got No Buddy Sophia Petrillo |
Brotherly Love
Motherly Love Myrna Burwell |
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Cagney & Lacey
Baby Broker Mrs. Rosenmeyer |
Duckman
Westward, No! voice of Aunt Jane |
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Empty Nest
Windy Sophia Petrillo |
Empty Nest
Libby's Gift Sophia Petrillo |
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"Talented"Perfect Married Arthur Gettlemen and is the best Golden Girl. Continue » Posted Feb 5, 2007 2:38 pm PST |
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