Thank you for being a friend: Estelle Getty
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Actress Estelle Getty, best known for playing Sophia, the wisecracking mother to Bea Arthur’s Dorothy in “The Golden Girls,” (and the less-known spin-off “The Golden Palace”) died yesterday at the age of 84. That she had seemingly been in her 80s since the ’80s — she was, in fact, the second-youngest of all four “Golden Girls” — makes her passing even sadder (and a little surreal).
Here’s a rather oddly scored tribute video to Getty I found on YouTube. The sheer number of similar tributes is evidence of how loved she was.
