“Estelle always wanted to be an actress, and she achieved that goal beyond her dreams,” McClanahan told the Associated Press. “Don't feel sad about her passing. She will always be with us in her crowning achievement, Sophia.”
Best known for her Golden Girls role, the diminutive actress (she was under five feet tall) also appeared in Tootsie, Copacabana, and as Sylvester Stallone’s mother in Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
Getty was born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923. Her stage name was derived from her 1947 marriage to Arthur Gettleman, with whom she had two sons. She is survived by her sons, Carl and Barry Gettleman, her brother, David Scher, and her sister, Rosilyn Howard.
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