Arthur, Beatrice
Variant names
Americans,
English,
Biographical notes:
Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress and comedian.
Arthur began her career on stage in 1947 and made her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera in 1954. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in Mame. She went on to play Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family (1971–72) and Maude (1972–78), and Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–92), winning Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1977 and 1988. Her film appearances include Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) and Mame (1974). In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends.
Links to collections
Tamiment Playhouse. Tamiment Playhouse photographs [graphic].
New-York Historical Society
Guide to the Beverly Bozeman Fuller Tamiment Playhouse Photographs, 1954-1957
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Guide to the Tamiment Playhouse Records, 1927-1987
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.
Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Douglas Menuez photography collection, 1986-2006
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Guide to the Beverly Bozeman Fuller Tamiment Playhouse Photographs, 1954-1957
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Lucille Lortel papers
The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Guide to the Tamiment Playhouse Photographs, 1920s-1987
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.
Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]
The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Related names in SNAC
associatedWith
Fuller, Beverly Bozeman.
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Fuller, Beverly Bozeman.
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Lortel, Lucille
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Menuez, Doug
associatedWith
Saddler, Donald
correspondedWith
Thayer, John Eldon, 1899-1980
associatedWith
Unger, Arthur
associatedWith
Tamiment Playhouse.
memberOf
United States. Marine Corps
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Subjects:
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Occupations:
- Actors
- Actresses
- Comedians
Places:
- CA, US
- NY, US
Variant Names
Arthur, Beatrice, 1922-2009
Ross, Jane, 1922-2009
Arthur, Bea 1922-2009
Frankel, Bernice 1922-2009
Beatrice Arthur
Arthur, Bea
Arthur, Beatrice, 1922-2009
Arthur, Bea, 1922-2009
Frankel, Bernice, 1922-2009
Saks, Bernice, 1922-2009