The book goes into why Coco was cut, including a rare press portrait with Coco and the girls. I'm glad it included a photo of a kitchen set as it was used in a show prior to the Golden Girls in a short-lived Patty Duke sitcom with Helen Hunt. Strange how it was up for digital on Amazon and isn't anymore. The studio notes, why Lucille Ball didn't do the show, not to mention that every single person who ever appeared on the show, wrote the show, produced the show, episode by episode are interviewed are in it, makes it worth buying.
The never-before-seen photos of the sets without the cast and upclose photos of all the props are amazing. It documents just how a show is put together.
Even if you're not a fan of a show, it's still a great book to pick up for pop culture historic reasons. I do hope the book receives some sort of award. This allegedly helped to start the Bea/Betty feud because Bea liked Bogart having worked with him before. She also get a potential director fired because during the interview he worse his baseball cap backwards.īetty White got director Paul Bogart fired during the first season because she felt he was too aggressive a director trying to push her to do things with the Rose character she didn't feel comfortable with. A guest actress who plays Stan's wife in an early episode talks about how Bea nearly got her fired for chewing gum on set during a break. All the cracks against Dorothy are about her being ugly or sounding like a man, and it hurts because it's attacking me."īea freaked out on anyone chewing gum on set. You call Blanche self-centered and a slut, but Rue isn't.
She once told a writer why it hurt her so much she said "Rose gets called stupid and dumb, but Betty is all brains. She was clearly very sensitive about her looks (and I don't blame her, I'd have been the same way) and hurt by all the Dorothy ugly/man jokes on the show. The most interesting stuff was the gossip about Bea Arthur who frankly doesn't come off all that well to me. It's pretty good it's got a lot of interesting behind scenes stories. I just finished reading the new book Golden Girls Forever by Jim Colucci.
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