Rue McClanahan talks about Golden Girls, Maude and her life Part 1 of 6

The behind the scenes TV stories you wouldn’t have known - from the people who were there.

Today I’m bringing you one of my favorite interviews from the vault.

I interviewed Rue McClanahan way back in the late 2000’s, just a few years before she passed away at the age of 76.

Rue was a hugely popular actress, having starred on Broadway, in movies and in dozens and dozens of guest appearances on your favorite tv shows. But she was best known for her roles on three popular sitcoms: as Aunt Fran on Mama’s Family and, of course, co-starring with her friend, Bea Arthur on TWO hit shows.

First Maude, on CBS that ran for 6 seasons and later, Golden Girls, which ran on NBC for seven seasons before spinning off into Golden Palace.

OUr conversation was wide ranging, covering a great deal of her career. Today, Rue talks about meeting Norman Lear. How she got her first guest shot on all in the family,

How she talked the great THEATRICAL PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR, Joseph Papp into letting her out of a contract to do a New York BROADWAY show so that she could go to Hollywood.

Getting cast on Maude - working with the great Norman Lear. Shat she learned from Bea Arthur. and the difference between acting on stage and acting in a sitcom.

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