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Arthur, who played the on-screen daughter to the late Estelle Getty, died at home of cancer at the age of 86, a family spokesman said. She was also famous for the sitcom Maude, first creating the character in the comedy series All In The Family. The tall, deep-voiced actress's razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star, the Associated Press news agency notes.

Dan Watt, her personal assistant for six years, announced the death, saying she had died peacefully. She proved a perfect foil for blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker Carroll O'Connor , and their blistering exchanges were so entertaining that producer Norman Lear fashioned Arthur's own series. In a interview with AP, Arthur said she had been lucky to be discovered by TV after a long stage career, recalling with bemusement CBS executives asking about the new "girl".

Let's give her her own series. Golden Girls was another groundbreaking comedy, finding surprising success in a television market increasingly skewed toward a younger audience. I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting. Arthur was born Bernice Frankel in New York City in and when she was 11 her family moved to Cambridge, Maryland, where her father opened a clothing store.

At 12 she had grown to full height, but she dreamed of being a petite blond movie star like June Allyson. One advantage of being tall and deep-voiced, however, was that she was chosen for the male roles in school plays. After an early, brief marriage which gave her the name Arthur, she married Broadway actor and future Tony-winning director Gene Saks in , with whom she had two sons.

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