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  • Actress Rue McClanahan poses at a book signing for her new book ‘My First Five Husbands’ near Book Soup May 2, 2007 in West Hollywood, California.
  • Beatrice Arthur (as Maude Findlay) (left) comforts a distraught Rue McClanahan (as Vivian Cavender Harmon) in a scene from the television show ‘Maude,’ Los Angeles, California, mid 1970s
  • Betty White, Bea Arthur, and Rue McClanahan accept the Pop Culture Award onstage during the 6th annual ‘TV Land Awards’ held at Barker Hangar on June 8, 2008 in Santa Monica, California
  • ‘Golden Girls’ stars Betty White, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan reunite in New York in 2005

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    Actress Rue McClanahan poses at a book signing for her new book ‘My First Five Husbands’ near Book Soup May 2, 2007 in West Hollywood, California.
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    Beatrice Arthur (as Maude Findlay) (left) comforts a distraught Rue McClanahan (as Vivian Cavender Harmon) in a scene from the television show ‘Maude,’ Los Angeles, California, mid 1970s
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    Betty White, Bea Arthur, and Rue McClanahan accept the Pop Culture Award onstage during the 6th annual ‘TV Land Awards’ held at Barker Hangar on June 8, 2008 in Santa Monica, California
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    ‘Golden Girls’ stars Betty White, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan reunite in New York in 2005