In Memoriam: Estelle Getty
by Thomas Brock - July 23rd, 2008.Filed under: Entertainment, In Memoriam, Television.
CNN.
Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 84.

