{"id":1904,"date":"2008-07-22T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2014-12-25T09:49:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:49:42","slug":"rip-estelle-getty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Estelle Getty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SIYn70bTGlI\/AAAAAAAABak\/DfbuFap5wIc\/s1600-h\/z072208estelle_getty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225908326248946258\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SIYn70bTGlI\/AAAAAAAABak\/DfbuFap5wIc\/s400\/z072208estelle_getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Estelle Getty<\/span>, best known as the wise-cracking mother on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Golden Girls&#8221;<\/span> died today , just two days short of her <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">85th birthday<\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Getty&#8217;s story<\/span> is an interesting one. She was born in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1923<\/span>, and wanted to make it as an actress. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Getty <\/span>struggled trying to get roles and working office jobs to make ends meet.<\/span><\/span><\/span>In <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1985<\/span> she auditioned for the role of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bea Arthur&#8217;s mother<\/span> in the just-being-cast tv series <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Golden Girls.&#8221;<\/span> Everyone knew that if <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Estelle<\/span> got the role, it would sorely test her acting skills since <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bea Arthur <\/span>was actually a year older than her. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Estelle<\/span> was brought back to audtion three different times since the producers weren&#8217;t sure that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Estelle<\/span> was convincing enough as an 80 year old. Eventually, she was awarded the role, and the rest is, as they say, history. &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Golden Girls&#8221;<\/span> ran for seven years and<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Estelle<\/span> was perfect as the fiesty\u00a0oldest of the quartet.Her popularity in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Golden Girls,&#8221;<\/span> led to other roles, most notably as mothers to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sylvester Stallone<\/span> [&#8220;Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!&#8221;], <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Cher<\/span> [&#8220;Mask&#8221;] and even <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Barry Manilow<\/span> in the tv movie <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Copacabana.&#8221; <\/span>Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estelle Getty, best known as the wise-cracking mother on &#8220;The Golden Girls&#8221; died today , just two days short of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11456,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/11456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}