Bea Arthur Was A Truck-Driving Marine | The Smoking Gun

Bea Arthur Was A Truck-Driving Marine | The Smoking Gun: "The 'Maude' and 'The Golden Girls' star, who died last year at age 86, enlisted in early-1943 when she was 21 (and known as Bernice Frankel). In a February 1943 letter included in her Marine personnel file, Arthur gave military officials a brief account of her prior employment as a food analyst at a Maryland packing plant, a hospital lab technician, and an office worker at a New York loan company."