NEW YORK (AP) - Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. Her ...

UPDATE: You can read Betty White’s statement on her friend’s death here. Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-award winning actress from The Golden Girls, passed away early this morning after suffering a massive ...

Rue McClanahan, who helped make "The Golden Girls" a long-running television hit playing the saucy, man-devouring Southern belle Blanche Devereaux (in one scene she made a date at her husband's ...

Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke. She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on "aging ...

Oklahoma’s native Golden Girl Rue McClanahan died Thursday at the age of 76. McClanahan, mostly known for her role as Blanche Devereaux on the hit TV show “The Golden Girls,” died of a stroke at 1 a.m ...

Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress. She was best known for her roles on television sitcoms, including Vivian Cavender Harmon on Maude, Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family, and Blanche ...

Rue McClanahan, who so memorably vamped it up as the narcissistic but lovable Southern belle Blanche on Golden Girls, is now in the sit-com land in the sky. She brought endless wit and joy to that ...