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Actress Estelle Getty poses in West Hollywood, Calif., on Jan. 29, 1986. Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia Petrillo on the sitcom "The Golden Girls," died Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at her Los Angeles home. She was 84.

(Photo: AP Photo/Steve Dykes)