Remembering Sophia
Today, Estelle Getty died in Los Angeles. She was 84.
She will always be remembered as the sarcastic Sophia on the 80’s sitcom, the Golden Girls.
While I was just a wee lass when the show aired, I’ll never forget how mom would laugh at the shenanigans of Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia. She’d have tears in her eyes.
Years later, when the show was in re-runs, I finally got the jokes. There was a lot of innuendo in that show that goes right over a kid’s head.
It wasn’t until today though that I realized it was make up that made Sophia look so old. She was actually only in her 60’s when she starred in the show. Mom loves it when I use lines like: “only 60.”
Kate