‘Golden Girl’ star Rue McClanahan dies at 76
June 4th, 2010 - 1:11 am ICT by IANSLos Angeles, June 3 (DPA) Actress Rue McClanahan, who starred as an ageing, sex-obsessed southern belle in the hit comedy series “The Golden Girls”, has died aged 76.
Her manager, Barbara Lawrence, told People magazine that she died in a New York hospital Thursday morning after suffering a “massive stroke”.
McClanahan won an Emmy award in 1977 as the year’s outstanding comic actress for her role in “Golden Girls”, a sitcom about four middle-aged women sharing an apartment in Miami.
Born in Oklahoma in 1934 she had been married six times.
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