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In 1981, she appeared on stage in Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb. She reprised the role in the 1974 film version opposite Lucille Ball. Arthur accepted the supporting role of Vera Charles, for which she won great acclaim, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical the same year. In 1966, Arthur auditioned for the title role in the musical Mame, which her husband Gene Saks was set to direct, but Angela Lansbury (who would become a good friend of Arthur's) won the role instead. Onstage, her roles included Lucy Brown in the 1954 Off-Broadway premiere of Marc Blitzstein's English-language adaptation of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Nadine Fesser in the 1957 premiere of Herman Wouk's Nature's Way at the Coronet Theatre, Yente the Matchmaker in the 1964 premiere of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway. Career Theater įrom 1947, Arthur studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York City with German director Erwin Piscator.Īrthur began her acting career as a member of an off-Broadway theater group at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City in the late 1940s. After interning at a local hospital for the summer, she decided against working as a lab technician, departing for New York City in 1947 to enroll in the School of Drama at The New School. Īfter serving in the Marines, Frankel studied for a year at the Franklin School of Science and Arts in Philadelphia, where she became a licensed medical technician. She was honorably discharged at the rank of staff sergeant in September 1945.
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Frankel then worked as a truck driver and dispatcher in Cherry Point, North Carolina, between 19. In June 1943, the Marine Corps accepted her transfer request to the Motor Transport School at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
After basic training, she served as a typist at Marine headquarters in Washington, D.C. ĭuring World War II, Frankel enlisted as one of the first members of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943. Afterwards, she studied for a year at Blackstone College for Girls in Blackstone, Virginia. Concerned for her health, her parents sent her to Linden Hall, an all-girls' boarding school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, for her final two years of high school. At age 16, Bernice developed a serious condition, coagulopathy, in which her blood would not clot. In 1933, the Frankel family relocated to Cambridge, Maryland, where her parents subsequently operated a women's clothing shop. Arthur was raised in a Jewish home with her older sister Gertrude and younger sister Marian (1926–2014).
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An obituary described Arthur as "the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star." Early life, family, education and military service īernice Frankel was born on May 13, 1922, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, to Rebecca ( née Pressner, born in Austria) and Philip Frankel (born in Poland). In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends. Īrthur's film appearances include Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) and the film version of Mame (1974).
Arthur was inducted into the academy's Television Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Arthur has received the third most nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series with nine after Julia Louis-Dreyfus (11) and Mary Tyler Moore (10). She won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1977 for Maude and 1988 for The Golden Girls. Arthur began her career on stage in 1947, attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work on television beginning in the 1970s as Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1972) and Maude (1972–1978) and later in the 1980s and 1990s as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls (1985–1992).Īrthur won several accolades throughout her career, beginning with the 1966 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera Charles in Mame. Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress and comedian.
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