When the comedy series Maude ran on CBS in the 1970s, it didn’t just raise critics’ and viewers’ eyebrows with its controversial subject matter – it also raised a standard in how situation comedies ...

Bea Arthur might be best known to fans these days as the cantankerous and witty Dorothy from the sitcom The Golden Girls, but long before she was making viewers laugh in that series, she was a part of ...

For the last few years, ABC has been staging live, all-star re-creations of classic sitcom episodes from Norman Lear, the king of socially conscious TV comedies. It’s called Live in Front of a Studio ...

Before becoming a “Golden Girl,” Bea Arthur was all brass as “Maude.” Sure, Marlo Thomas and Mary Tyler Moore broke silly TV gender-role barriers playing variations of spunky career gals. But Arthur’s ...

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Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" and who won a Tony Award for the musical ...

LOS ANGELES — Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows “Maude” and “The Golden Girls” and who won a Tony Award for ...

Norman Lear knows a thing or two about timely topics. So, what better time than now to recreate the famous “Maude” abortion episode, which originally aired in November 1972 — two months before Roe v.

Sally Struthers is taking us down the road and back again with a sentimental memory from the late Bea Arthur. While making an appearance on the “Let’s Talk About That” podcast with Larry Saperstein ...

A family spokesman for Bea Arthur says the star of TV's "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" has died. Spokesman Dan Watt says the 86-year-old Arthur died at home early Saturday. He says Arthur had cancer, ...

Bea Arthur, the star of television shows The Golden Girls and Maude, has died aged 86. A family spokesperson says she died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles. The tall deep-voiced actress won a ...