Originally, White was offered the role of sexy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux, which ultimately went to McClanahan. In 2010, White opened up about the pivot in an interview with the Associated Press.
Despite their chemistry onscreen, Arthur and White reportedly approached their craft differently, which drove somewhat of a wedge between them. White admitted in a 2011 interview with Joy Behar that "Bea was not that fond of me ... I don't know what I ever did, but she was not that thrilled with me.
In 2016, Arthur's son Matthew Saks told The Hollywood Reporter that White's lighthearted style sometimes rubbed his mom the wrong way.
The Golden Girls once took their show on the road for a royal, loyal superfan! In a Reddit AMA in 2014, White recounted the "very exciting" experience she and her costars shared, performing the NBC hit live for Queen Elizabeth, a.k.a. the Queen Mother, in 1988.
The sitcom's 180 episodes packed a punch with a star-studded slew of celebrity guest cameos.
When it came to the fab foursome's sweet treat of choice, Arthur was allegedly a tough cheese! According to IMDb, the actress "hated" the creamy sweet, but chewed through the 100 cheesecakes the stars were served on set through the years.
Though gregarious Getty played Sophia Petrillo, the elderly mother of Arthur's Zbornak, in real life she was one year younger than her onscreen offspring. To make the age gap work, the glam team transformed Getty with heavy makeup and a wig, IMDb reported.
There's no place like home – but the façade of the girls' home was never in Florida! Instead, the establishing exterior shot for the fictional home of Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia was of a private residence in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. In August 2020, the property sold for $4,000,620 — $1 million over its initial asking price, PEOPLE confirmed at the time.
