I’ve never seen Golden Girls; Rue McClanahan’s autobiography was brought to my attention through the series of algorithms that comprise Goodreads and despite my ignorance of McClanahan’s body of work it was a pretty decent read. I found a few similarities between Rue’s story and Penny Marshall’s. Both women got married young, after getting pregnant and both women quickly divorced the father’s of their children; Rue was a little bit older than Penny but both women came to prominence in the late 70s/ early 80s- […]