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.