Bea Arthur started as a stage actor in New York and early in her career, to earn a living when not employed in the theatre, Bea sang in such well-known nightclubs as the Blue Angel, Ruban Bleu, and
Number One Fifth Avenue.
During the 1950's, to augment her income, Arthur also played under-five-line parts on the TV shows of Steve Allen, Sid Caesar, Jack Parr, Art Carney and Perry Como and appeared with Wayne and Shuster on the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 she acted in her first motion picture, as a WAC in Paramount's "That Kind of Woman," starring Sophia Loren.
For some time Norman Lear had wanted Bea to try a guest role on his immensely popular television series "All in the Family." However, in the late summer of 1971, Lear persuaded her to do the show. For her one-shot, he created Maude, a cousin of Edith, who came to care for the Bunker family during an illness. Except for their mutual outspokenness, Cousin Maude was the complete opposite of prejudiced, narrow-minded Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O'Connor.
Bea Arthur, as Maude, quickly gave Archie his comeuppance, much to the delight of the viewers of the September 1971 episode. The response from CBS officials and from listeners was so favorable that Lear developed a separate series with Maude as the central character. Maude premiered as a series on September 12, 1972, and Arthur received rave reviews.
Arthur's greatest accolades came from the popular show "The Golden Girls" in the 1980s.
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