Beatrice Arthur

She took a shit on the floor of my dressing room.

OP, was there some particular reason you felt compelled to start a Bea thread when we had already had an active discussion started in the last two weeks?

"I called her my little Beasy but she still didn't like me."

Better than Burniss Frankel from the western shore of Maryland.

R4 "It was Bernice you gum chewing chicken lover!"

She went by the name Bea because Bernice was a boy’s name in her neighborhood.

R6 Yes, but spelled Burnice and pronounced Burniss. Bernice was a popular woman's name back then. Bea seemed a bit paranoid at times.

I heard Bea's vagina turned to clay because of the STD she contracted in the Marines.

[quote] Everyone called her Bea. Did she miss the memo? It’s as pretentious as Deborah Harry.

Everyone calls Robert De Niro Bobby, and yet I don't hear you complaining about him.

Double standard much?

R7, there’s probably not a Bea Arthur interview that I haven’t seen and she always mentions that a lot of boys had that name back then. Can anyone confirm this?

R6, ok maybe it was a Maryland thing 🤷🏻‍♂️

R10 In her 2002 interview she said that many boys had that name but it was pronounced Burniss and was probably spelled Burnice. Her original name Bernice is pronounced Berneece. I don't know what she was complaining about.

Has anyone seen Bea's 1970 movie Lovers And Other Strangers? Is it worth watching?

R2 seems to be stuck in a time warp from last year.

Poor Bea. She had a boys name, was 5'9 1/2 by the time she was 12 years old and had a deep voice even as a child. All she wanted to be was a pretty little blonde starlet!

Why did Bea get a breast reduction? She had great boobs on Maude.

I think it's because her husband left her and she said "I won't need these anymore!!"

I find that some women who have been hurt romantically, end up mutilating and masculinizing their bodies at least for a certain period of time.

Bet-NEEEEECE

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R18 Nice picture. Bea had nice eyes and smile.

Her signature looks a bit like mine.

I always thought this picture was super gay.

I just found this little Youtube short. I don't know if it's true.

In case you can't click on it, this is what it says:

When Betty White and Bea Arthur Fought - Then Reconciled

On The Golden Girls, Betty White and Bea Arthur often clashed off-screen. Arthur found White "too perky," while White felt Arthur was cold. But after the show ended, they slowly reconnected. Before Arthur died, she told her son, "Betty is the real deal." White later said, "I always loved her, even when she couldn't say it back."

I love Bea but man she sounded exhausting to be around.

It’s amazing how fat she was in the 70s and then sickly thin come the early 80s. Did she start smoking more and cut out drinking?

R20, is Bea holding an American Express card?

R24 Looks like it.

I wouldn't fuck Sandra Berhardt with Bea Arthur's dick.

R26 Bea didn't like that one.

And the Dick (Cavett) she was sitting next to didn't like it either.

R26, according to Jeff, he went to her one woman show to apologize and she responded "you nailed me, you prick."

Does Ross mention how he got the idea for the joke from Betty White?

R29 Did he really?

Is this really Bea or a drag queen?