See the full interview at emmytvlegends.org Beatrice Arthur was inducted into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame on December 9, 2008. Visit emmytvlegends.org for links to all online interviews in the Archive of American Television's collection. In this interview excerpt, she discusses her role in the CBS series "Maude" produced and created by Norman Lear. Beatrice Arthur was interviewed for two hours plus in Brentwood, CA. In the interview, Arthur talked about the origins of her stage name and how she started out in plays, off and on Broadway. She then talked about her first movie roles and her appearances on The George Gobel Show and Caesars Hour. She described her other early appearances on television in The Seven Lively Arts, Omnibus, and Perry Comos Kraft Music Hall and her role in the play and feature film Mame (with Angela Lansbury and Lucille Ball, respectively). She talked about her appearances on All in the Family as the liberal cousin Maude. She described her role as Maude, her relationships with Jean Stapleton, Carroll OConnor and Norman Lear. She then discussed the controversial issues and topics that the series Maude tackled, (such as alcoholism, abortion, death, infidelity and feminism). Arthur also talked extensively about working with Norman Lear on All in the Family and Maude, watching the show 20 years after it first aired and why she eventually left the show. She then briefly talked about her series Amandas. Arthur talked affectionately about The <b>...</b>