Our core four of Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), Rose Nylund (Betty White) and Sophia ...
The premise focused on four women in their 50s and older—Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), Rose Nylund (Betty White), Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), and Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty).
He tells PEOPLE that the show’s four leading ladies — Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, Betty White as Rose Nylund, Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux and Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo ...
She was originally cast as man-hungry Blanche Devereaux with eventual portrayer Rue McClanahan set to play the sometimes-clueless Rose. But Jay Sandrich, the veteran director of “The Mary Tyler ...