“Thank you for being a friend,” Estelle Getty dies at 84
Born to immigrant parents as Estelle Scher, the famed actress who made her name as the ornery Sophia on “The Golden Girls,” for which she received an Emmy in 1988, has passed away at the age of 84. Ms. Getty suffered from advanced dementia.
Like many Jewish stage personalities of her generation, she got her start in the yiddish theater. Below is a not-funny video tribute, complete with sad Jewish violin music, and all.
Thank you, Ms. Getty, for all the years of laughs. May her memory be for a blessing, and may her mourners be comforted.


That’s not just any sad Jewish violin music — that’s the theme from Schindler’s List.
BZ · July 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm