![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, in reminiscing about her first appearance as Maude, Edith Bunker’s cousin on All in the Family, she said the role felt wonderful because if seemed just “like being on stage.” That’s exactly what makes Arthur and her star vehicle, Maude, the underheralded apex of creator Norman Lear’s ‘70s TV universe. Arthur’s heart forever remained with Broadway that much is self-evident. Even as she tendered a compliment to the body of work that turned her into a household name, her emphatic button on the word “literate” comes off as an inadvertent snipe. “Working with such talented people-the writers, the actors, directors, producers-doing material that was bright and literate and original and adult and daring,” Bea Arthur exclaims halfway through her 2002 one-woman show On Broadway: Just Between Friends, speaking about her work on both Maude and The Golden Girls.
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