So, everything was fired in every cylinder, if you say it technically, and the friction was publicly aired in the form of a gentle rib.
“Bee is a very eccentric woman,” recalled McClanahan in an interview she did for the TV Academy’s American TV archives. “Unless Betty goes with her, she won’t go to lunch.”
Even if White was late, Arthur was always waiting for her. And when the cast stayed for dinner while filming on Friday, they were always sitting next to each other. White also pointed out that in her 1987 autobiography, Betty White, she and Arthur lunch together every day. Both she and McClanahan pointed out that Arthur is a foodie and a mistake.
White said that Arthur was “discriminatory, knowledgeable, grateful…and a bit intolerant of someone else in this department… (I) unimaginable predictability promotes her banana.
“Picky” is how Getty characterized Arthur’s approach to food, reportedly prompting a troubling look from her TV daughter.
“But that’s her complete preconception,” White added in 1986 when the cast sat in the Washington Post. “As far as Bee is concerned, it is better than sex.
