Betty White gets real about the Golden Girls 

Absolutely! Currently watching the show on Hulu 😁

Nah they hated her

I know but all is forgiveness in heaven

​@@Akyomiall of em??

@@moonlight-ui1nyOnly Bea Arthur didnt like her

I did not know Betty served too. I had only heard about Bea! Cool!

What an interesting fact that seems similar to Queen Elizabeth! I wonder if that ever came up when they performed for her 🤔

I did not know that. What amazing women!

Bea Arthur joined the Marines and she too ended up being a truck driver.

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This made me tear up... 💙

She met them in hell 😂

Rumor has it Bea actually hated cheesecake. Real team player.

@@janise01 Not a rumor. I heard Bea say she didn't care for cheesecake in an interview. And I later heard Betty say in an interview that Bea wasn't fond of her either. 😂😂😂

​@@JumbarideLol I was about to say the same, not a rumor 😄 Apparently in those scenes she'd usually just push it around on her plate

99? 😳

She really did. Rest in power Betty

@@billrobbins5874 Just a few weeks away from 100.

​@@billrobbins5874She was about two weeks shy of 100. She was a great lady.

She was a people's person! 🎉

I wasn't even born yet but boy am I jealous hearing that

Mine too!

Mine too!!

Yes

Mine too!!!

I just recently rewatched it. It’s truly a masterpiece. One of my two favorites ever. The other being Will and Grace

I grew up on Golden Girls. Love it

@@marklouis1890 so did I...they were a huge part of that era.

It's because she was legitimately beautiful. Plus she never lost that sparkle in her eye, which is very rare.

Just lovely, and a delightful spirit.

I think it's just terrible that we didn't see more of her. How's that?

Same here.

I did but it was only thrown in joyful hilarious shade.

@@jamesmcinnis208 she is on reruns from black & white tv in “Life With Elizabeth” & another show with her as the star from way back! They were free on here! I watched them all! She was a fun-loving & silly gal in those! Hope you find them, if you should want to watch them.

Actually Bea Arthur wasn't quite too fond of her lol. She did do some things later on though. She did the movie You Again, was in The Proposal, played Kitty's mother in That '70s Show, and Olga in Hot in Cleveland. Oh, also that Snickers commercial lol 😄

Even Bea Arthur said she was the brightest of the group by far

@@66kaisersozaYes. That was why she was always chosen to do game shows back in the day.

Dolly Parton did the same thing her film debut 9 to 5 she memorized the entire script

Bea Arthur was loud when I came into contact with her. I was at the Maryland Crab House in Santa Monica for my birthday, and they were bringing out a dessert for me and starting to sing happy birthday when she said loudly, "No. No. No." I turned around to see what man was wrecking my birthday, and it was her. I think she was embarrassed. I wonder when her birthday was. I'll have to look it up. Nope, not even close. Maybe someone in her party had a birthday, and she didn't want to attract attention. Who knows?

A marine in 1943 no less 😅

my sister gave me a shirt like that!

Their tension was professional and not personal..both Bea and Betty still had respect for each other..not like SJP and Kim Cattrall..now that's a more breakable tension

​@@marlonsalvadorbandal3278 I Kim better because the movies she was in plus she was prettier by far.

​@@Cinemaniac87 how is that a better reason

Stay Gold, PonyGirl

What an oxymoron

@@mattw4496Why?

@@YouVSMeTV Well, maybe not oxymoronic if he is being lead to God

​@@mattw4496 You seem miserable, sounds like God isn't working for you.

I'm not sure I understood what she meant by that

I've read that Bea was actually very anxious about going on stage.

A producer said that Bea didn’t like Betty because of the way she treated Estelle. Estelle suffered from stage fright, and increasing difficulty remembering her lines. Betty was in the habit of talking to the audience between takes, and when Estelle flubbed or forgot a line, Betty held her thumb and index finger up to her mouth, indicating that Estelle had been drinking - and getting a big laugh. Bea, who was very close to Estelle, was furious at Betty’s behaviour, and called her the ‘C’ word. Turns out that Estelle had early stage dementia.

​@@DayGloClam It that's true, that breaks my heart. My mom has Parkinson's Lewy Body Dementia so I can empathize.

@@John_Steinerbut I read that Betty did that on purpose so that the audience would laugh and not suspect the dementia. Betty willingly made herself look a bit nasty so that the audiences wouldn’t turn against Estelle. I worked with Bes Arthur one time. She wasn’t difficult, but she was NOT funny when she wasn’t acting, sort of aloof. But when acting she was the best deadpan comedian ever!

I am sure Rue said they'd go for lunch together and if Betty wasn't going Bea didn't want to go, they were friends, they were very different people and had very different ways of working - I think Betty was the first female talk show host? She was used to engaging with the audience and making cracks between takes etc, Bea was from theatre & didn't interact with the live audience. So they had very different ways of working, Betty & Rue played word games on set between takes etc...but one of the big things that rubbed Be wrong was Estelle was having memory issues and HATED filming days, she'd often have her lines written on props etc, and one day she fluffed a line and Betty made some crack to the audience implying Estelle had been drinking or something, lighthearted banter on her end, but Rue and Bea were protective of Estelle, particularly cos she had this anxiety anyway and was having health issues, so to have Betty making the audience laugh at their colleague when she was anxious and vulnerable was something Bea really took to heart. Folk like to right it off as 'Betty was too fun, Betty was America's sweetheart and Bea was a sourfaced meanie' but really, they had a long working relationship & were very different people, they all respected each other & loved each other....didn't mean they always liked each other. Working with folk very different from you, who do things you don't like or agree with for the best part of the decade, it's gonna be tough.

@@amandakate4951I can’t imagine working that long around each other day in and day out had to get on their nerves occasionally! People have to realize acting isn’t a bed of roses some days!

😂😂😂

It didn't need to be said 😂 she said it before Bea did not like her

She still called her wonderful, everyone won’t mesh as friends but they can love and respect one another

"WAS??" she is soo damn beautiful.

@@princesss2118she passed away, was would be an appropriate term but she is and has always been beautiful

@@enmu6984 Yes, sadly, but one day we will all meet again.

​@@princesss2118 "sadly"

They were very different people with strong personalities, who I’m sure occasionally got on each other’s nerves. But at least according to Rue, they were in fact really good friends - kind of in an “opposites attract the way they spat” way. Rue said the two of them would bicker all day long but they also would never go to lunch without each other, sat together between shoots, and hated the media narrative that they secretly disliked one another.

@@JohnJacobJingleheimerSchmidt7Good to know! ☘️

They're fine ❤ 😊 I'll rewatch those 4 lovely ladies til I hope to see them upstairs

Being a war veteran doesn't excuse you for being a d**k.

Rumors about Bea Arthur not digging Betty White’s vibe on the set has been floating around since the show aired. This little snippet of an interview does not change anything.

I'm sure there's a Larry King clip where Better said Bea didnt like her for some reason

@@robinkulbayRumors are one thing but fans have made it seem as though the rumor is absolute truth and spread this nasty narrative against Arthur. Until we hear it from Bea Arthur’s mouth which we won’t due to her passing away, it will only be a senseless rumor that fans should stop perpetuating. You only have one side of the story and Arthur is not here to give her side, defend herself against it or even entertain the foolishness.

@@RU-vidReady The rumors are not just rumors. Bea's son said she did not like Betty at all and was mean to her on set from time to time

Yup couldn't pay me to watch late night it's just not worth the loss of time

Yes its palpable in the show 😂

You forgot who she married she put up with Stan then suffered the tremendous heart ache of having her heart broken I learned from experience its tough.

@@alexrossi4464 Ah, yes. Of course. lol!

B Arthur was a strange hateful person and i believe she was extremely jealous that her part was given all the tall ugly jokes which do reflect her real character while the other was witry sexy and dumb i believe b Arthur had resentments iver that and took it out on her cast mates

Point EXACTLY!!!

Betty White and Bea Arthur had very VERY different ways of acting and had a ton of conflicts and fights... But also each respected the other as a consummate professional.

​@@steveadams9957It was actually due to difference of their personality. One is more upbeat and other is more serious in a good way. Both had their own methods of acting played a role.

@@steveadams9957You say that like you know her or something. Many ppl have said wonderful things about Bea Arthur-and to say that a dead person is hateful is a bit tactless, especially if you may or may not know them. Bea was an introverted, serious person, whereas Betty was more bubbly. Two different personalities, so of course they’d clash a bit, but I doubt it was as serious as fans took Betty’s words to mean. Not to mention, Bea Arthur was a World War II US Marine veteran. She fought so ppl like you can call her hateful. Put some respect on her name.

She had her own shows early on, she was always good in her own roles.

She was on tv and radio decades before she was a regular game show participant. She had her own talk show during the very early days of television. She also starred in one of the first television sitcoms in the early 1950s. I think it was called Life of Elizabeth.

@@fayetaylor919 C'mon, those shows never drew an audience. I was around then.

It wasn't that Bea didn't like Betty, I think it was more Betty just got on her nerves sometimes

This. Bea felt that Betty was stealing every scene (she was, and not intentionally) and that Betty thought the show was about her. Betty, being as sweet as she was, tried to be understanding. That is my understanding.

She died 2 years ago

@@taygirl4eva no she didn’t

​@@taygirl4evaI didn't even know she was sick

​@@terdfergusonIII- She wasn't sick. She was old.

@@chancemiller9340 That's why it's funny. I was also considering 'The Curse of the Golden Girls!'

And Betty White, as always, graciously responded. Loved her as Sue Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ❤