Happy 100th, Bea Arthur!

We conclude our recent celebration of Bea Arthur today with a salute to what would have been her 100th birthday. Of course we just covered her 1970s sitcom Maude on the show, and a while back we talked about The Golden Girls.

Hat tip to our pal Alan, who made me aware that this was on YouTube:

And here's another of the drugstore commercials Arthur did in the Girls era:

Anyone who saw this will never forget it, but here is a reminder of this seminal television moment just in case:

And finally, just because, here's the ABC music video "Be Near Me," which got good airplay in the 1980s:

Happy birthday, Bea Arthur!

Bea was born on this date in 1922. We covered The Golden Girls here, but maybe someday we will get around to her first hit:




But do we ever need an excuse to post the theme song from Maude?