Bea Arthur
This goo was worth a point in May 2024.
publication date: Saturday, May 4, 2024 (part of May 2024)
category: 
Theater
clue: Beloved by fans for her many years on Broadway, as well as television appearances as a liberal housewife in the 1970s and a Miami roommate in the 1980s, she is nonetheless overlooked for her greatest role of all, a singing bartender forced to close her cantina early due to a planet-wide curfew.
explanation: Arthur starred in Maude, The Golden Girls, and The Star Wars Holiday Special. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
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