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Courtesy Everett Collection
Rue McClanahan
1978
Rue's big small-screen break came in 1972, when, at 38, she was cast to play the ditzy best friend to Bea Arthur's Maude. "[Bea] taught me... to be outrageously courageous as a comedienne, to go out on a limb, to go farther than I've ever dreamed of going," she told Entertainment Weekly last year.
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