Charles Anthony "Tony" Thomas (born December 7, 1948) is an American television and film producer, who has produced the TV series "The Practice" (1976–1977), "Nurses", "Herman's Head", "Soap", "Blossom", "Empty Nest", "Benson", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Golden Girls", and "It's a Living", as well as "Dead Poets Society".
 Thomas got his start in Hollywood film/TV production work at Screen Gems, where he worked as an associate producer on the acclaimed television movie "Brian's Song".
 In 1974, he teamed with producer Paul Junger Witt and wife Susan Harris to form a TV production company, Witt/Thomas Productions (alternately Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions), which produced numerous successful television series from the 1970s into the 1990s.
Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedian, singer, and animal rights activist.
 Her career spanned seven decades.
Sophia Petrillo is a fictional character from the TV series "The Golden Girls", and its spin-offs "The Golden Palace" and "Empty Nest" and one episode of the series, "Blossom".
 She was portrayed by Estelle Getty for 10 years and 259 episodes.
 Bea Arthur, who played her daughter Dorothy Zbornak on the show, was in real life a year older than Getty.
The first season of the American television comedy series The Golden Girls originally aired on NBC in the United States between September 14, 1985 and May 10, 1986.
 Created by television writer Susan Harris, the series was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions and Touchstone Television.
 It stars Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White, and Estelle Getty as the main characters Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux, Rose Nylund, and Sophia Petrillo.
 The series revolves around the lives of four elderly women living together in a house in Miami.
Dorothy Zbornak (née Petrillo) is a fictional character from the TV series "The Golden Girls", portrayed by Bea Arthur for 7 years and 183 episodes.
 Dorothy was the strong, smart, sarcastic, sometimes intimidating, and arguably most grounded of the four women in the house.
 Though tough, she is normally friendly, polite and does genuinely care for the other girls.
 In the 1000th issue of "Entertainment Weekly", Dorothy Zbornak was selected as the Grandma for "The Perfect TV Family."
Witt/Thomas Productions is an American television and movie production company run by TV producers Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas.
 The company was consistently productive between its founding in 1975 and 1999, but is still active, producing the occasional film and TV series project.
 It has produced more than 25 American primetime television series, mostly half-hour situation comedies.
 Witt/Thomas is perhaps best known for producing the popular sitcoms "Soap", "Benson", "It's a Living", "The Golden Girls" (along with its sequel, "The Golden Palace"), "Empty Nest", "Blossom" and "Brotherly Love".
 Witt and Thomas have also produced many cinematic works, including the 1989 box office success "Dead Poets Society".
Estelle Getty (née Scher; also known as Estelle Gettleman; July 25, 1923 – July 22, 2008) was an American actress and comedian, who appeared in film, television, and theatre.
 She was best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on "The Golden Girls" from 1985 to 1992, which won her an Emmy and a Golden Globe, on "The Golden Palace" from 1992 to 1993, and on "Empty Nest" from 1993 to 1995.
 In her later years, after retiring from acting, she battled Lewy body dementia.
The InterContinental Miami is a hotel in Downtown Miami, Florida, United States.
 It belongs to the InterContinental Hotels chain.
 Located on Biscayne Bay, the hotel is in the form of a 35-story tower on the eastern edge of downtown in Bayfront Park.
 The address is 100 Chopin Plaza.
 The building is 122 m (366 ft) tall, has 35 stories, and was built in 1982.
 There are 641 guest rooms.
 Before the hotel was owned by InterContinental, it was known as Pavion Hotel.
 Built in 1982 by famed architect Pietro Belluschi.
 The hotel's exterior, porte cochere and lobby were redesigned by architect Thomas Roszak, of Lohan Anderson + Roszak in 2012.
 In the tv series "the Golden Girls" durning the opening credits, right when "the golden girls" title shows up on the screen, if you freeze it, have a look in the middle right hand of the screen.
 You can clearly see this hotel under construction.
 The Golden Girls first season started late 1985, but this hotel was built in 1982, meaning they used old footage for the shot
Sid Melton (May 22, 1917 – November 2, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his roles as incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom "Green Acres" and as Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, in "The Danny Thomas Show" and its spin-offs.
 He appeared in about 140 film and television projects in a career that spanned nearly 60 years.
 Among his most famous films were "Lost Continent" with Cesar Romero, "The Steel Helmet" with Gene Evans and Robert Hutton, "The Lemon Drop Kid" with Bob Hope, and "Lady Sings The Blues" with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams.
 He was a regular on "The Danny Thomas Show" and "Green Acres", and appeared in flashback on several episodes of "The Golden Girls" as Salvadore Petrillo, the long-dead husband of Sophia and father of Dorothy.
Rue la Rue Cafe is a "Golden Girls" themed cafe eatery located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
 The restaurant was conceived and is operated by Michael LaRue, a close confidante of one of the four "Golden Girls", Rue McClanahan (1934–2010) while McClanahan's son Mark Bisch is a partner.
 La Rue, who inherited many of the star's personal belongings, in turn decorated the restaurant with them (including her 1987 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series), as well as pictures of McClanahan (one each from the decades of her entertainment career) and other memorabilia related to the hit show.
 The establishment is coincidentally located inside the Sofia storage building.
 Touchingly, there is a plaque reminiscent of a star on Hollywood Boulevard "which reads "Thank You for being a Friend" fitted into concrete at the front door outside under which are some of McClanahan’s ashes.

Question: What year was the actress who played Sophia Petrillo's daughter in the TV series "Golden Girls" born in?
Answer: 1922