![]() ![]() ![]() George died (in a car accident) in either 1981 or 1982, three or four years before the start of the series in 1985, and at some point earlier they had moved from Atlanta to Miami. Love life Īlthough notoriously man-hungry, Blanche was faithfully married for decades to her husband, George Devereaux. īlanche also has a promiscuous niece named Lucy Warren ( Hallie Todd) (Virginia's daughter), who visits her during the first season. When Clayton tells Blanche that he is gay, she struggles to accept his sexuality, but eventually does after Clayton intends to marry his boyfriend Doug. The fifth Hollingsworth child (by deduction) is Clayton Hollingsworth ( Monte Markham), who appears in season four (1988) and season six (1991). However, their relationship became strained once more after their argument following Big Daddy's death, in which Virginia accused Blanche of being too selfish and self-centered to say goodbye to her own father. They buried the hatchet when Virginia went into kidney failure and Blanche offered her kidney to her sister. īlanche's sister Virginia Hollingsworth Warren ( Sheree North), with whom Blanche shares a mutual loathing, is one year her junior. The next youngest sibling is Blanche's brother Tad. When it was revealed that the book was about Charmaine and not Blanche, they made up and apologized to each other. Charmaine Hollingsworth ( Barbara Babcock) is the spoiled oldest sister, who infuriated Blanche when she wrote a sordid novel Blanche thought was about her. īlanche is the third of five Hollingsworth children. She is proud of her status as a Southern debutante, but was shocked to learn, when tracing her family history, that she had a New York born Jewish great-grandmother which prevented her from joining the Daughters of the Old South. On a few occasions, Blanche states that she is of the Baptist faith. After her father's death, she learned that he and Viola had been secret lovers for many years and Viola left their family after Blanche's mother found out.īlanche is a member of "the Alpha Gams" ( Alpha Gamma Delta), but which university she attended is not known. As a young child, she had a mammy (nanny) named Viola Watkins ( Ruby Dee) who took care of her before abruptly leaving one day. Much to Blanche's dismay, her father married a young widow named Margaret Spencer ( Sondra Currie) years after Blanche's mother died, but she begrudgingly accepted the marriage. Her parents were the late Elizabeth-Ann Margaret Bennett (later seasons named her "Samantha Roquet") ( Helen Kleeb) and Curtis "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth (first Murray Hamilton and, after Hamilton died, David Wayne), the latter a revered man in his neck of the woods. In pre-production, producers had planned for White (who was already well known for playing the man-hungry character Sue Ann Nivens) to play Blanche, but neither White nor McClanahan wanted to be typecast, and the two roles were eventually switched by producers.īlanche Elizabeth Marie Hollingsworth grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, at her family's plantation, Twin Oaks. McClanahan had previously co-starred with Beatrice Arthur in Maude and with Betty White in the first two seasons of Mama's Family. The character was inspired by Blanche DuBois (to whom Blanche Devereaux is compared in the pilot script) and Scarlett O'Hara. Blanche was portrayed by Rue McClanahan for 8 years and 204 episodes across the two series. Former assistant at an art museum in Miami, FloridaĬurtis "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth (father deceased)Įlizabeth-Ann "Big Momma" Margaret Bennett Hollingsworth / Samantha Roquet Hollingsworth (mother deceased)Īurora Devereaux (granddaughter) (through Rebecca)ĭouglas "Doug" (brother-in-law) (through Clayton)īlanche Devereaux is a character from the sitcom television series The Golden Girls, and its spin-off The Golden Palace. ![]()
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