Bea Arthur
Birth Name: Bernice Frankel
Date of Birth: May 13, 1922
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Death: April 25, 2009
Place of Death: Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Bea Arthur, also known as Beatrice Arthur, was an American actress, comedian, and singer. She was known for playing Dorothy Zbornak on the sitcom The Golden Girls, as well as on Empty Nest; and Maude Findlay on the sitcoms All in the Family and Maude. Her roles also included the films Lovers and Other Strangers, Mame (1974), and Enemies of Laughter; the television production Star Wars Holiday Special; the shows Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Caesar’s Hour, Amanda’s, and Dave’s World; and the made-for-tv movie My First Love (1988); as well as many works on stage. Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White were the other stars of The Golden Girls. She was around 5′9″.
Bea was the daughter of Rebecca (Pressner) and Phillip/Philip Frankel, who both ran a women’s clothing shop. Her parents were Jewish emigrants. Her father was from Kolno, Powiat kolneński, Podlaskie, Poland. Her mother was from Mel’Nytsya Podil’S’Ka, Borshchivs’kyi district, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. Her family moved to Cambridge, Maryland, in 1933.
Bea served in the U.S. Marine Corps, from 1943 to 1945, as one of the first members of the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve; attaining the rank of staff sergeant. Her surname was from her first husband, screenwriter, film director, and film producer Robert Alan Aurthur. Bea had two children, who were adopted, with her second, former husband, director and actor Gene Saks.
Bea’s paternal grandfather was Nachman Frankel (the son of Meyer Frankel and Goldie/Golde Blumenthal).
Bea’s paternal grandmother was Mindel/Minnie Dinenson (the daughter of Jacob Dinenson and Rachel Levy).
Bea’s maternal grandfather was named Israel Leiser Pressner (the son of Salman/Avrohom Pressner and Basie).
Bea’s maternal grandmother was Channah/Anna “Annie” Sternberg (the daughter of Mordechai/Max Sternberg and Lea Goodman). Max was the son of Aaron Sternberg and Molly. Lea was the daughter of Morris Goodman and Anna Sternberg.
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5’9″ is generous. Shoes off, she would’ve been 5’8″.
Correction.
Her height was not 5’9½”.
I looked at both of her marine IDs. One she is 5’9½”, but her earlier one, is probably more accurate, which places her at 5’8½” or maybe 5’8¾”.
Heels most likely made the difference.
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You should be aware that most of civilized world do not know what 5′9½″ is
176.53 cm. Better?
Absolutely. Most of civilized world use metric system and have no idea what 5′9½” is.
Well this website was established in the US, and there’s over 300 million people in this country, capable of understanding and using the the imperial system here, in the form of the 87% of the populace, over age 10.
Also, the UK still uses the imperial system to describe human height, and Australia, and Canada. So we’re looking at over 400 million people in the world, capable of understanding imperial measurements. That’s about 5% of the global population. The percentage of the world that speaks English, as their first/primary language, is about 5%.
Measurements for personal height, being listed in the imperial system, is totally congruent with the traffic of this website. Plus, it doesn’t take much time or effort, to put the measurement into a conversion calculator.
No, the admin of this website is Australian. Pretty sure lot of traffic do not come out of the countries you mentioned, think about the mighty Jonas Bettencourt, Madman or Bablah
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US/Australian. Both countries still use the imperial system.
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55%, almost 56%, of all traffic comes from the US, followed by over 8% from the UK. Metric measurements aren’t really necessary.
Metric system is used in over 190 countries.
Countries with people, that mostly don’t visit the website.
I’m surprised that it took so long to include Bea Arthur on this site. Same with Jim Henson.