Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “The Golden Girls”

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Stage Fright

Audiences loved Sophia. Perhaps more than Estelle Getty realized. When the show was initially conceived, Sophia was supposed to be a recurring character, who would show up every once in a while. But people were so tickled and taken with her that she was written into the house with the rest of the ladies.

Still, Getty was the least experienced of the women and she let it get to her. For weeks she suffered from stage fright. Which was an issue as the women had to perform in front of a studio audience. Thankfully, we couldn’t tell on camera as Sophia often delivered some of the show’s best one-liners.

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