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McClanahan received four Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show, winning the award in 1987. On The Golden Girls (1985–92) and its short-lived successor The Golden Palace (1992–93), McClanahan portrayed man-crazed Southern belle Blanche Devereaux, owner of the house she lived in and rented out to her three roommates and best friends: Dorothy Zbornak (Beatrice Arthur), Rose Nylund (Betty White), and Sophia Petrillo ( Estelle Getty). McClanahan and White appeared on the first two seasons before the show was cancelled by NBC and then retooled for first run syndication.
Also in the cast was McClanahan's future Golden Girls costar Betty White.
Fran was a journalist for the local paper. On Mama's Family (1983–90), McClanahan portrayed an uptight spinster sister Fran Crowley to Mama Thelma Harper ( Vicki Lawrence). A script binder entitled The Baxters was discovered many years later to be a part of her personal collection. It is also possible she never actually filmed the episode but was just considering it. It is unknown if her appearance was in the actual pilot or an unaired pilot, presumably the latter given she is not credited and the show is not attributed to her anywhere. In an interview, McClanahan said she also did the pilot episode of The Baxters for Norman Lear but told him she didn't want to do the series itself. Arthur Harmon (played by Conrad Bain).Īfter Maude, McClanahan starred in Apple Pie, a series created for her by Norman Lear, but which only aired 2 episodes before it was cancelled. Arthur played Maude Findlay, and McClanahan played Maude's best friend Vivian Cavender, who eventually married Maude's next-door neighbor Dr. McClanahan first worked with actress Beatrice Arthur on the sitcom Maude (1972–78). In the 1972 episode of All in the Family, "The Bunkers and the Swingers", McClanahan and Vincent Gardenia play a swinging couple who meet the unsuspecting Bunkers. L-R: McClanahan, Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and Gardenia (1972) Once her role on Another World ended, McClanahan joined the cast of the CBS soap opera Where the Heart Is, in which she played Margaret Jardin.Īll In the Family.
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Her role as Caroline Johnson on the TV show Another World (from July 1970 to September 1971) brought her notice. She began acting off-Broadway in New York City in 1957, but did not make her Broadway début until 1969, when she portrayed Sally Weber in the original production of John Sebastian and Murray Schisgal's play with music, Jimmy Shine, with Dustin Hoffman in the title role.
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Career Ī life member of the Actors Studio, McClanahan made her professional stage début at Pennsylvania's Erie Playhouse in 1957, in the play Inherit the Wind. A National Honor Society member, McClanahan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, at the University of Tulsa, where she majored in both German and Theatre, and joined the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, serving as vice-president. She grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma she graduated from Ardmore High School, where she acted in school plays and won the gold medal in oration. Her Choctaw great-grandfather was named Running Hawk according to her autobiography My First Five Husbands. She was raised Methodist and was of Irish and Choctaw ancestry. Her mother's maiden name was reportedly a variation of the Portuguese or Galician surname Medeiros. She was the daughter of Dreda Rheua-Nell ( née Medaris), a beautician, and William Edwin "Bill" McClanahan, a building contractor. Eddi-Rue McClanahan was born in Healdton, Oklahoma, on February 21, 1934.
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