Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 on TV's The Golden Girls, has died. She was 84. Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 this morning at her Hollywood Boulevard home. On Golden Girls, Getty played Sophia Petrillo, the feisty 80-something mother of Bea Arthur's character. She also starred with Sylvester Stallone in Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
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