title: Estelle Getty
David Steinberg
Montrose Hagins
Sid Melton
The Golden Girls (season 1)
Hollywood on Television
The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments
Rue McClanahan
Alicia Brandt
Deborah May
sentences: 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.
David Steinberg {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author.
 At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States.
 He appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" more than 130 times (second only to Bob Hope in number of appearances) and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host.
 Steinberg directed several films and episodes of television situation comedies, including "Seinfeld", "Friends", "Mad About You", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "The Golden Girls", and "Designing Women".
Montrose Hagins (June 12, 1917 - October 24, 2012) was an African-American television actress and former schoolteacher.
 Hagins either starred and been a guest on popular television shows such as: "Seinfeld", "Roc", "227", "The Golden Girls", "Sister, Sister", "The Hughleys", "The Jamie Foxx Show", "What's Happening Now", "The Sinbad Show", "The Famous Jett Jackson".
 She also became the replacement for Rosetta LeNoire as Leola Henderson-Forbes in the final season on "Amen".
 Her television credits also include more guest spots on shows such as: "E/R", "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper", "Hunter", "Malcolm & Eddie", and "Moesha".
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.
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.
Hollywood on Television was a five-and-a-half-hour, six-day-a-week live television talk show starring newcomer Betty White and radio disc jockey Al Jarvis that ran from 1949 to 1953.
 When Jarvis left the show in 1951, film star Eddie Albert took his place and co-hosted with White for six months until thirty-three and a half hours of live ad-lib television per week, featuring just the two of them, took its toll and he also resigned.
 White was then hosting the show alone, and is believed to have been the first female television talk show host as a result.
 After a period of White talking directly into the camera lens for hours at a stretch, the show began accepting guests to interact with her as well as gradually incorporating scripts and sketches.
 Similarly to Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners" sketches on the Dumont Network during the same era, recurring sketches involving White as a housewife named Elizabeth caught on with the viewers to the point that expanding the sketches into a half-hour sitcom appeared to be the obvious next step.
 Series pianist George Tibbles began writing the sketches.
 Studio producer Don Fedderson, Tibbles and White formed a production company called "Bandy Productions," named after Betty White's dog Bandit, and White changed over to a half hour sitcom format based on the Elizabeth sketches entitled "Life With Elizabeth", which ran in syndication for two years and sixty-five episodes.
 Across the decades, White would use the skills she had honed on "Hollywood on Television" by hosting her own talk show in 1954 and subsequent variety series as well as starring in numerous sitcoms, including "Date with the Angels", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Betty White Show", "The Golden Girls", "The Golden Palace" and "Hot in Cleveland", as well as hosting the 2012 prank show "Betty White's Off Their Rockers", which began airing 63 years after the premiere of "Hollywood on Television".
The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments is a 2003 American television special celebrating the 1985–1992 sitcom "The Golden Girls" starring Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White.
 It originally aired on Lifetime on June 2, 2003.
Eddi-Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 – June 3, 2010) was an American actress and comedienne best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on "Maude" (1972–78), "Aunt" Fran Crowley on "Mama's Family" (1983–84), and Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls" (1985–92), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987.
Alicia Brandt is a television and film actress.
 Her most significant roles are that of Joy Foy in the short lived 1992 sitcom "Julie", where she starred together with Julie Andrews and James Farentino, and the main character Trudy in the 1993 independent film "Losers in Love".
 Brandt's other roles include appearances on the television series "The Golden Girls", "Sister", "Maybe This Time", "Becker", "Six Feet Under", "Desperate Housewives" and "Girlfriends".
Deborah May is an American actress.
 She has appeared in a number of television shows during her career, include the major recurring role as Terri Valere on the NBC medical drama "St. Elsewhere" (1985-86).
 Other television credits include "Falcon Crest", "Remington Steele", "The Golden Girls", "", "", "Murder One", "The Larry Sanders Show", and "ER".

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 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. 

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 David Steinberg {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author.
 At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States.
 He appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" more than 130 times (second only to Bob Hope in number of appearances) and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host.
 Steinberg directed several films and episodes of television situation comedies, including "Seinfeld", "Friends", "Mad About You", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "The Golden Girls", and "Designing Women". 

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 Montrose Hagins (June 12, 1917 - October 24, 2012) was an African-American television actress and former schoolteacher.
 Hagins either starred and been a guest on popular television shows such as: "Seinfeld", "Roc", "227", "The Golden Girls", "Sister, Sister", "The Hughleys", "The Jamie Foxx Show", "What's Happening Now", "The Sinbad Show", "The Famous Jett Jackson".
 She also became the replacement for Rosetta LeNoire as Leola Henderson-Forbes in the final season on "Amen".
 Her television credits also include more guest spots on shows such as: "E/R", "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper", "Hunter", "Malcolm & Eddie", and "Moesha". 

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 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. 

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 The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments is a 2003 American television special celebrating the 1985–1992 sitcom "The Golden Girls" starring Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White.
 It originally aired on Lifetime on June 2, 2003. 

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 Eddi-Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 – June 3, 2010) was an American actress and comedienne best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on "Maude" (1972–78), "Aunt" Fran Crowley on "Mama's Family" (1983–84), and Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls" (1985–92), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987. 

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 Alicia Brandt is a television and film actress.
 Her most significant roles are that of Joy Foy in the short lived 1992 sitcom "Julie", where she starred together with Julie Andrews and James Farentino, and the main character Trudy in the 1993 independent film "Losers in Love".
 Brandt's other roles include appearances on the television series "The Golden Girls", "Sister", "Maybe This Time", "Becker", "Six Feet Under", "Desperate Housewives" and "Girlfriends". 

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 Deborah May is an American actress.
 She has appeared in a number of television shows during her career, include the major recurring role as Terri Valere on the NBC medical drama "St. Elsewhere" (1985-86).
 Other television credits include "Falcon Crest", "Remington Steele", "The Golden Girls", "", "", "Murder One", "The Larry Sanders Show", and "ER". 

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Answer: Estelle Getty