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Golden Girls fans, listen up. If you’ve got a spare $4.3 million, the house where Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche and Rose lived could be yours.

For the first time ever, the house used for exterior shots in season one is up for sale.

Even though the show was set in Miami, the actual house is located in Brentwood, California.

According to the real estate listing, the four-bedroom house was inspired by the beauty of mid-century Japanese/Hawaiian architecture and was built by Hawaiian architects Johnson and Perkins in 1955.

The interior scenes in The Golden Girls were filmed on a TV set and look nothing like the interiors of the house that’s up for sale though.

Here’s that iconic living room as seen on the show.

And here’s what the interiors of the house up for sale look like.

If you clicked on this article there’s a fair chance you’re a big Golden Girls fan. So here are a few fun facts about the show.

STARS WEREN’T SO FRIENDLY OFF-CAMERA

On TV they played the best of friends, but that wasn’t the case in real life. There was a long-running feud between Betty White (Rose) and Bea Arthur (Dorothy), who were the two biggest stars when the show began.

“She (Arthur) was not that fond of me,” Betty White said in 2011. “She found me a pain in the neck sometimes. It was my positive attitude – and that made Bea mad sometimes. If I was happy, she’d be furious!”

According to Rue McClanahan (Blanche), the feud lasted long after the show wrapped up. Apparently in 2002, McClanahan’s husband spoke to Bea Arthur and thanked her for inviting him to her Broadway show.

“I love Rue!” Arthur reportedly said, before adding, “Betty (White) is a c**t!”

McClanahan herself also struggled to bond with Arthur, saying, “Bea and I didn’t have a lot of relationship going on. Bea is a very, very eccentric woman.”

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ROLE SWAP

Rue McClanahan was originally picked to play the dimwitted Rose Nylund and Betty White was meant to play the promiscuous Blanche Devereaux. But the producers were worried that if White played Blanche, it would be too similar to a nymphomaniac character she played on the Mary Tyler Moore show, so they asked the actors to swap roles.

ESTELLE GETTY SUFFERED FROM STAGE FRIGHT

Getty, who played Sophia Petrillo, sometimes had to read her lines off large cue cards which were held up by crew members just off the set because she would seize up when the cameras were rolling

“She (Getty) had an awful time remembering her lines because she would freeze and panic,” Rue McClanahan said.

“She would start getting under a dark cloud the day before tape day; you could see a big difference in her on that day. She was unreachable. She was just as uptight as a human being can get. When your brain is frozen like that, you can’t remember lines. She couldn’t think of her name, poor little thing.”

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CAST AGES

Estelle Getty may have played the oldest character, Sophia Petrillo, but she was actually the second youngest of the four main actors. Betty White was in fact the oldest, followed by Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and finally Rue McClanahan.

SOPHIA’S MAKEUP

It took 45 minutes on the day of filming to transform Estelle Getty into an 80-year-old woman.

When she initially auditioned for the role, the producers were sceptical that she could actually pull-off playing a much older character.

On her third audition she pleaded with a makeup artist to help her land the dream role.

“To you this is just a job,” Getty reportedly told the makeup artist. “To me it’s my entire career down the toilet unless you make me look 80.”

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