.. How did Bea Arthur feel about Betty and Estelle continuing to be nominated for The Golden Girls

She shit in their wigs.

If she were still alive, I think would be more concerned about the fact that an elder queen is posting a question about a show from 30 years ago.

R2 Nailed it.

r2 is why I still come to DL

Give me graphic details of her anger and humiliation! Port her emotions directly into my spinal cortex, please.

Bea has 2 Emmys

It was an open secret in Hollywood that Bea was a very bitter woman. She was resentful of Betty's popularity.

She was especially bitter about her long-time friend Angela Lansbury's success when Murder, She Wrote became a huge hit, because Angela was the sole star and didn't have to share the success with anyone else.

R7 Is that why she never guested on MSW and vice-versa? I've always thought that Lansbury could have been included in that murder mystery weekend episode.

R7 what did she say to Angela?

Rue should definitely have been nominated for the "Rusty Anchor" episode

She did the only thing she knew how to do. She drank more.

I’ll bet it drove her insane.

People forget that Bea's mother, with whom she was very close, died just a month after GG premiered. That may explain partly why she was so cranky on that show and turned to drink more.

R7, she said "I could vomit just looking at you"

Poor Angie never win an Emmy though

Every had to tread lightly through Every NBC Dressing room.

She was first on the call sheet. She got paid the most. And she got a sweetheart deal in seasons 6 and 7. I don't think she was bitter. She may have been disappointed that her peers didn't acknowledge her work on the show, but bitter is a stretch.

Too lazy to do the research, but who the hell was being nominated and winning over the GG back then?

Candice Bergen won three, and Kirstie Alley won once.

Blair Brown (The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), Delta Burke (Designing Women) and Marion Ross (Brooklyn Bridge) also earned nominations over Bea and Rue for the later seasons.

Also, for the final season of The Golden Girls, Roseanne earned her first nomination, and Tyne Daly got in for a guest appearance on Wings (no, really).

I know she hated Betty.

R20 no Tyne did not

R21 she supposedly did not hate her at all, just "did not care for her."

She did, R22. In 1992, the Emmys ditched the Guest Categories and nominated performers in either lead or supporting categories, so there were a lot of screwy nominations that year.

Did you think someone would really make that up? And about a Tyne Daly nomination for Wings, of all things?

R24 you’re a fucking liar! That’s a lie from hell! You’re obviously demon possessed! Get out of the Datalounge now!!! I won’t stand for this evil, in the name of Jesus! Tyne Daly is evil and I won’t hear Bea be disparaged! Get out!!!!

Bea ruined Joan Rivers's white dining room because of her nasty, drunken behavior. Everybody who knew Bea has talked about how mean she could be at times.

Murder She Contemplated

Did they laugh at Angela being nominated every year and never winning?

Maybe Bea thought Betty was fake or something. Maybe Bea was in love with Allen Ludden and Betty stole him away. Maybe Betty always got the mini Milky Ways from the craft services table before Bea could get any.

They might have r28 so I’ll say “yes!”

By that point I had 4 Tonys, a Grammy and 6 Golden Globes. Plus I was the highest paid woman on TV and the STAR! Fuck them!

Everybody knows that Bea was a lesbian.

“Bea screwed up!” squealed Betty.

“I did,” responded Bea, daggers flashing behind her eyes.

Betty would have been one annoying bitch to work with. Hamming it up, not a real actress.

Betty was sort of the class clown on set, whereas Bea was the straight-A student. OF course, they clashed, but I don't think it was a feud like so many suspect. I think Betty just got on Bea's nerves., who just wanted to do her job and then go home. Betty's antics would hold up the process.

In 1992, Kelsey Grammer was also nominated for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for doing his 'Frasier Crane" shtick on WINGS. So, that show got two lead acting Emmys for two guest-starring roles in one year.

R34 she know how to take a joke just as well as she gave, so not really. She’s just a great sport who never took herself too seriously.

I love them both.

Those were the show's only two Emmy nods. Ever. Bizarre.

Rue confirmed that Bea was angry that she wasn’t getting nominated over Betty. She also said Bea did not like being part of an ensemble.

Bea was a massive drunk confirmed by both Joan Rivers and Miss Coco Peru. She also used to walk the streets without shoes. She was a really weird person. She was also a terror on the set of a Golden Girls with the rest of the cast always having to apologize to guest actors for her behavior.