Burns and Allen had several regulars on radio, including Toby Reed, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Gracie's real-life friend Mary " Bubbles " Kelly, Ray Noble, singers Jimmy Cash and Tony Martin and actor / writer / director Elliott Lewis.

At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre.

Later the same evening, the couple meet Kit's aunt Bea Coleman and Bea's former beau Charles Manning at a nightclub, where Bea questions Tony about her niece's nervous behavior.

When Tony repeats the inspector's suspicions, Bea wonders if he may be right when they identify the last call was received after hearing the Italy trip was cancelled.

Kit, Tony and Aunt Bea are at the ballet when Tony's assistant Daniel Graham calls him away to tell him it appears £ 1 million has been embezzled from the firm.

Now certain that Kit is delusional, Tony and Bea take her to a physician who suggests that she may be suffering from a split personality and that she should be taken to a psychiatrist.

After consulting further with the doctor, Tony decides to take Kit to Venice immediately and asks Bea to help her pack while he attends a board meeting.

It guest stars Tony Danza as himself portraying Joe Swanson, Valerie Bertinelli as herself portraying Bonnie Swanson, and Alex Rocco as Bea Arthur portraying Peter Griffin.

In addition to cast members Harry Von Zell, Bea Benadaret ( who made the transition from the radio show ), and Larry Keating -- -- the writing staff consisted of Sid Dorfman, Harvey Helm, Keith Fowler, and William Burns ( George's brother ).

Whatever the real reason was, in one famous episode, George stops a conversation between Harry ( Clark ) and Blanche ( Bea Benadaret ) and claims that Clark wanted too much money for being on the show, and was being fired.

Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida.

Notable storylines during the " Bea, Lizzie and Doreen " era of the show ( late-1979 – late-1981 ) included the 1979 cliffhanger involving a terrorist raid on the prison in which governor Erica Davidson was shot and wounded.

New characters had been introduced during Bea Smith's final few months on the show, and they now enjoyed prominent roles in the series.

Due to the huge popularity of the show when shown in the UK in the late 1980s, the British Prisoner fan club organised successful personal appearance tours for several actresses, including Val Lehman ( Bea Smith ), Carol Burns ( Franky Doyle ), Betty Bobbitt ( Judy Bryant ), Sheila Florance ( Lizzie Birdsworth ), Amanda Muggleton ( Chrissie Latham ) and Judy McBurney ( Pixie Mason ).

* Characters in a film or a television series who mention and / or refer to the actors or actresses that portray themselves ( e. g. Beatrice " Betty " Pengson from I Love Betty La Fea ; Bea Alonzo, who played the role of the protagonist, also played herself as an Ecomoda model ; coincidentally in the show, Betty wants to meet Bea Alonzo in person, an act of self-reference.

Adding spice to Gildersleeve's life are the women who come and go: the Georgia widow Leila Ransom ( Shirley Mitchell ), who leaves him at the altar on the last show of the 1942-43 season ( June 27, 1943 ), and the school principal Eve Goodwin ( Bea Benaderet ), who was another close call at the altar of matrimony ( June 25, 1944 ).

Set in the rural town of Hooterville, the show followed the goings-on at The Shady Rest Hotel, of which Kate Bradley ( Bea Benaderet ) was the proprietor.

Bea Benaderet, who played main character Kate, died in 1968 ; June Lockhart then joined the show as Dr. Janet Craig, a mother figure to the girls, from 1968 until the show's end in 1970.

Lockhart appeared as Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction, after Bea Benaderet died during the run of the show, and as a regular in the ABC soap opera General Hospital during the 1980s and 1990s.

Bea Arthur, who played her daughter Dorothy Zbornak on the show, was in real life a year older than Getty.

She guest-starred on The Red Skelton Show show, made an appearance in an episode of " Murder, She Wrote " (" If The Frame Fits ") and made an appearance in an episode of The Simpsons (" Old Money "), wherein she voiced the role of Bea Simmons, Grandpa Simpson's girlfriend.

Another actor in the show was Bea Benaderet.

Petticoat Junction is another series often cited in the purge, but that show was already in decline ( due in part to the death of star Bea Benaderet ) by the time it was canceled in 1970.

This show failed despite the presence of George, Ronnie and Sandra Burns as well as Bea Benaderet and Harry von Zell, who had appeared on The Burns & Allen Show.

In the show, Sandy became Top Dog whilst Bea Smith was in hospital, and was a popular and key character.

* Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends in New York, New York ( January 29, 2002 – April 14, 2002 )

* Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends in Toronto, Canada ( November 20 – December 8, 2002 )

Delilah is a master waffle-maker, and Bea capitalizes on Delilah's skills to open first a single " B. Pullman " waffle restaurant, from which she eventually builds a nation-wide and then international chain of highly successful restaurants.

The book Poem of the Man God received praise from Pope Pius XII's confessor ( Augustin Bea ), and was presented to Pius XII during a special audience in 1948 in which he reportedly approved it, and the Servite priests present signed an affidavit to that effect.

The first major story arc-defining event in the series is the turf war for top dog status between Bea Smith and Franky Doyle, culminating in a prison riot in which Meg Jackson is held hostage, and her husband, prison psychiatrist Bill Jackson ( Don Barker ), is stabbed to death by inmate Chrissie Latham ( Amanda Muggleton ).

Joan schemed to beat Bea, while Bea plotted to oust Joan, thus beginning a new standard story arc for the series – in which the women of Wentworth try to " get rid of the Freak ".

The Bea-Joan-Nola conflict reaches its height in a memorable storyline which commenced shortly after Bea was returned to the prison after her escape.

A few months later however, Joan finally triumphs over Bea after a major confrontation in which the sadistic screw succeeds in having her old enemy transferred to Barnhurst.

In 2010 Bea joined up with Gnipper and Harley, Gran's pet pig, in a new strip titled The Bea Team, the title being a parody of The A-Team film which was released around the time the strip was in The Beano.

The Golden Girls, which also starred Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, and Rue McClanahan, was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through 1992.

The radio series, which lasted 13 episodes, had starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as a big-city family who move to the country.

In 1947, together with former Group Theatre members Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis, she founded The Actor's Studio, which trained Marlon Brando, James Dean, Jerome Robbins, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Bea Arthur, and many more.

At the Vatican they encountered Monsignor Alphonso Carinci and Cardinal Augustin Bea, Pope Pius XII's confessor, who advised presenting the typed manuscript directly to Pope Pius XII, through a recommended intermediary, which was accomplished in 1947.

She sporadically works as a model, which makes Bea rather jealous of other men looking at her love interest.

Written by Ron Hutchinson as a dry commentary on Thatcherite values in the 1980s, the series tells the story of a woman returning to the United Kingdom from Greece after years in self-imposed exile, determined to claw back control of her chain of high street clothes shops that is now controlled by her stepsister, and also get her foot back into the " House Of Bea ", a family-owned garment factory, run by her father and stepmother, which is now haemorrhaging money.

He faced Democrat Steve Young, American Independent Jim Gilchrist, Libertarian Bruce Cohen and Green Bea Tirtilli in the December 6 runoff, which he won with 44. 4 % of the vote.