Enter Sophia: Estelle Getty acted circles around 3 veterans in her first Golden Girls scene

Counterpoint:

She seemed like the worst actress out of them all.

She needed a lot of help from her co-stars. Dementia was ongoing. Sophia was superficially interpreted. No depth and she didn't seem to understand what being Sicilian was. Italian Americans and Jewish Americans are similar not identical. In her defense the writing was awful. They could have done without her.

Did Michael J Fox live with Estelle Getty when he first moved to Hollywood? I swear I read that tidbit somewhere but I'm old so I may be confused...

She was wonderful. Betty and Rue look lovely there, must be the lighting and makeup.

Sorry I mean in a lot of episodes the lighting and makeup do them no favors, not that they weren't good looking women naturally

True, the writing was terrible, but I thought Estelle was so bad that she should have been shuffled off with Coco never to be seen again.

Yeah....the writing on Golden Girls was just so awful. Thank goodness most scenes were just them improvising!

This just gets better and better. So we're supposed to believe Sophia had her hotplate in the flimsy paper bag, and was holding it gamely in one hand? Otherwise when did she retrieve the piece of evidence which would later exonerate her from causing the great Shady Pines fire?!

R9 seek help

Estelle was great with the biting one liners, but sometimes struggled in the dramatic scenes.

Sophia was the most popular character, though she had the easier onliners. She entered a scene, delivered and usually left. Estelle d

^ estelle did this very well and any memory losses were, if anything, in character .

The other 3 were as wonderful and had more complex roles and a modicum of character development.

They were all very good.

Well she certainly wasn't the most popular with all the handsome, horny devils down at The Rusty Wanker!

It was no Designing Women.

Betty White said they all started to get frustrated with her never remembering her lines, shooting in one-sentence takes, etc. until they all talked privately and understood she was suffering.

[quote] Bea later expressed regret for being a bit of a cunt to Estelle. At the time she didn’t know Estelle was suffering memory problems and was often inpatient when she would flub her lines.

r17 They all were

I couldn’t stand her caricature of a performance on that show. She was written just so “one-note.”

Her acting consisted of moving into positon and reciting her lines in n a monotone.

As with the other two, she certainly was no Bea Arthur.

Estelle had an extremely high Q rating and the most popular character for the entire series.Witt Thomas must’ve loved her because she after the golden girls/golden palace ended she was on the last 2 years of empty nest and guested as Sophia on the other Witt Thomas shows nurses and blossom.

[quote]Italian Americans and Jewish Americans are similar not identical.

R3 Similar, nothing. She sounded like a bubeleh from the shtetl.

Take my wife, please!