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Rue McClanahan, Blanche on ‘The Golden Girls,’ dies at 76

By Claire Noland
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Rue McClanahan, a stage actress who later gained fame on the TV sitcom ‘The Golden Girls’ alongside co-stars Bea Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty, died early Thursday of a stroke, according to her manager Barbara Lawrence. She was 76.

She had been treated for breast cancer in the late 1990s.

Arthur died in 2009 and Getty in 2008. Betty White keeps rolling at age 88, recently appearing on ‘Saturday Night Live.’

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Click here for an extensive interview McClanahan did with the Archive of American Television.

We’ll have a full obituary later at www.latimes.com/obits.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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