Which role would she have played best?
She could have been a good Rose. Then again I can't stand Betty White and I have never understood this overrated bitch's appeal or popularity, so even a coat rack would have made a better Rose for me than the horrible Betty White.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 1, 2019 9:32 AM |
r1 = Bea Arthur
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 1, 2019 9:36 AM |
She would have been a hilarious Blanche.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 1, 2019 11:17 AM |
I think she would have made a good Dorothy. Viv could pull off the dry and bitchy act when she was pissed at Lucy or Fred.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 1, 2019 11:42 AM |
Given that she had been dead for several years before "The Golden Girls" began, the only role she could have played was Celia Rubinstein.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 1, 2019 2:32 PM |
I voted Blanche but now I think she'd have been the perfect Dorothy
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 1, 2019 8:03 PM |
I agree, R6. She played Ethel with an occasional bitchy side that could have worked well for Dorothy.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 2, 2019 2:52 AM |
Would Vivian have been a more convincing Italian American than Bea Arthur? Arthur and Estelle Getty were both completely unbelievable as Italian Catholics. Why didn't the writers just make them a Jewish family instead?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 2, 2019 6:46 AM |
Maybe to appeal to middle America, r8?
I think Viv would have made a convincing Italian. She had a certain earthiness about her.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 2, 2019 11:14 AM |
This is truly the most Datalounge-esque thread of all.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 2, 2019 11:17 AM |
My neighbor's son Joel enjoys dressing like Vivian Vance on the weekends
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 2, 2019 11:26 AM |
Pics or it didn't happen, r11.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 2, 2019 11:48 AM |