Before The Golden Girls, There Was Maude

Bea Arthur’s two sitcom divas were so different — and eerily similar.

Rue McClanahan and Bea Arthur on Maude (Photo: CBS)

Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White, and Estelle Getty on The Golden Girls (Photo: NBC)

In one of the early episodes of The Golden Girls, the 1985-1992 Sex and the City forerunner set in Miami…