User blog:ARTaylor/Rue McClanahan's 85th Birthday

Today marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Rue McClanahan. She is remembered for appearing in a large number of popular sitcoms such as playing swinger Ruth Rempley on All in the Family, Vivian Harmon on Maude, Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family, and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace. She is known to Marvel fans as the first actress to play Anastasia Hardy on Spider-Man for the episode "Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous". She passed away on June 3rd, 2010 at the age of seventy-six after suffering a brain hemorrhage.