Rue McClanahan best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmyaward winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laughoutloud funny memoir about love marriage men and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played. Raised in smalltown Oklahoma in a house thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town Rue developed her two great passionstheater and menat an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with twoweeks worth of money in her pocket hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen and began working her way up in the acting world against the vibrant freespirited backdrop of the sixties. Thats when she met and married Husband 1a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still she was determined to make it on the stage and screenand in the years that followed rose to the top of the entertainment world with a host of adventures and husbands along the way. From her roles on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis to her first television appearances on Maude and All in the Family to the Golden Girls era and beyond My First Five Husbands is the irresistible story of one womans quest to find herself. Rue is proof that many things can and do get better with ageand that if she keeps her wits about her even a smalltown girl can make it big. People always ask me if Im like Blanche. And I say Well Blanche was an oversexed selfinvolved mancrazy vain Southern Belle from Atlantaand Im not from Atlanta Rue McClanahan show more