Bea Arthur Net Worth

Bea Arthur's Quotes

• All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.
• I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
• At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
• After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.
• And I hate autobiographies, I don't know why.

Interesting Facts about Bea Arthur

1. Arthur won Emerson College's Musical Theater Society's Achievement Award in 2000.
2. Survived by her two sons, Matthew Saks (born July 14, 1961) and Daniel Saks (born May 8, 1964), whom she and former husband Gene Saks adopted at birth.
3. She was best friends with Angela Lansbury since appearing together in "Mame". This was a friendship she spoke fondly of in her one-woman show.
4. She did not like to watch her own performances on television or film.
5. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 29-30. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
6. In 1966 she won a Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in "Mame", a part she recreated in the film version by the same name, Mame (1974).
7. Was a qualified medical technician.
8. Once appeared on Judge Judy (1996) as a witness for a defendant who was involved with the animal rights organization PETA. The defendant won.
9. In 2002 she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event for her one-woman show "Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends".
10. According to a television interview, Arthur claimed that her start in comedy came when she was only a lounge singer. Apparently, when she got up on stage to sing torch songs, the audience would laugh at her because of her deep voice and her height. The nightclub manager then approached her and told her she was in the wrong business. She should be doing comedy instead.
11. Considered Amanda's (1983) and an episode of Saturday Night Live (1975) as her worst career experiences. She also regretted the film version of Mame (1974), directed by her then-husband Gene Saks.
12. Best known by the public for her starring roles as the title character in Maude (1972) and as Dorothy Zbornak in The Golden Girls (1985).
13. Her former Maude (1972) co-star, Adrienne Barbeau, was reunited with her on The View (1997), in 2007. They were there to promote the DVD release of the first season of Maude.
14. Before she was a successful actress and comedienne, Bea Arthur was one of the first women to become an active-duty United States Marine. She volunteered and served during World War II as a truck driver and a typist in the Marine Corps. She was stationed at Marine Corps and Navy air stations in Virginia and North Carolina. During her military career, Arthur's rank went from private to corporal to sergeant to staff sergeant, the title she held upon her honorable discharge in September 1945.
15. She is survived by two granddaughters, Kyra and Violet.
16. Was 5'9-1/2" by the time she was 12 years old.
17. Her idol when she was young was June Allyson.
18. Remained good friends with Adrienne Barbeau during and after Maude (1972).
19. As a girl, Arthur attended Linden Hall School for Girls, an all girls school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, where she was voted "The Wittiest Girl in High School". Later she attended Blackstone College for Girls in Blackstone, Virginia, where she was active in drama productions.
20. After her death The Ali Forney Center, a New York not-for-profit agency devoted to providing emergency shelter, medical services, and help getting off the streets to young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender homeless people, learned that she had left them $300,000.00 in her will. The center plans to use the bequest to buy a building that will become permanent housing for some of these youths. The center plans to name the building The Bea Arthur Residence for LGBT Homeless Youth.