Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel on
May 13,
1923), is an American
actress and
comedian. Her notable
television roles included the popular sitcom,
Maude[?] in the
1970s and
The Golden Girls in the
1980s. In the later she played the character
Dorothy Zbornack, an elderly woman who lived in a
Florida house with two room mates (
Betty White[?] and
Rue McLanahan[?]) and Dorothy's short-tempered hip old mother, played by
Estelle Getty[?].
In her prime she stood almost 5'10".