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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
 IMAGE: (from left) Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Betty White from The Golden Girls, 1985.
Estelle Getty, who played Sophia on 80s sitcom smash The Golden Girls died Tuesday morning at the age of 84.
Getty, who suffered from dementia, died about 5.35am.
A kind of Sex and the City, but featuring retired women and without the sex (except for Blanche/Samantha), The Golden Girls was a favourite with gay men in the days before gay characters were common on TV.
Getty played the interfering mother of Dorothy, played by Bea Arthur. Arthur's dry, drag queen-esque one-liners were a main attraction of the show.
“Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her," Arthur said of Getty.
Getty also played Harvey Fierstein's mother in the 1982 Broadway debut of Torch Song Trilogy, a play based on the life and times of a Jewish drag queen.
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