Unless you live under a rock, there is no way you haven’t heard of the mega-hit show, The Golden Girls. The show aired from 1985 to 1992 and captured the hearts of audiences worldwide.

Though recently, as he has grown older, Stan has developed another perspective on it. He says: “And it was until recently when I thought, oh, maybe she was going over there to draw the attention of the audience and giving Estelle moments to collect herself and remember the lines.”

He also recalled some murmurs of tension between Bea and Betty, sharing: “I’ve heard stories, I didn’t see it particularly when we were there that there were some, I think, personality clashes between Bea and Betty. They had different working styles. So, because Bea was really a theater actress; you don’t break character. So for her to watch Betty just kind of become Betty and go up and talk in the middle of a scene, even though we were on a break, I think Bea did not like that.”

No one can match the Golden Girls for this reason…

Stan also revealed something the four female stars of The Golden Girls did which actors in Hollywood seldom do; thank the writers and credit them in interviews. Stan said: “And I have to say and thank those four ladies because they went and talked about the writers, pretty much every talk show. They always complimented us as writers. And you don’t usually see that. And so I’m forever grateful for that.”

And, contrary to popular belief, the actresses never did ad-libs on the show! A lot of times, Stan says fans think certain scenes were ad-libbed, with the actresses coming up with things on the spot, but that was not the case.
Stan recalls: “Season one, they said every word, every comma, every period. They said what we wrote.”