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Inside ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Alum Angela Lansbury and ‘Golden Girls’ Alum Bea Arthur’s Friendship


Murder, She Wrote's Angela Lansbury and Golden Girls' Bea Arthur had one of Hollywood's most supportive friendships, Dan Watt exclusively reveals Closer.

Taking her cue from the title of the song they sang together in Mame ’s second act, Angela called Bea her “bosom buddy.” The women loved to share a laugh. Born in London to an upper middle-class family, Angela called herself a “complete movie maniac” in her youth, longing to follow in her actress mother’s footsteps. Brooklyn-born, Maryland-raised Bea, meanwhile, finished high school and enlisted in the Marines, where she served as a typist and a truck dispatcher during World War II.

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