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Virginia Lena Warren (née Hollingsworth) is a recurring character in the 1985 NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. She is the third daughter of Curtis and Elizabeth Hollingsworth and the younger sister of Blanche Devereaux.
Virginia was mentioned several times throughout the show, and made two physical appearances in Season 1's "Transplant" and Season 5's "Ebb Tide". She was portrayed by Sheree North.
Personality and Characteristics[]
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Biography[]
Early life[]
Virginia was born to Curtis and Elizabeth Ann Hollingsworth in 1933, one year after her older sister Blanche. She has four siblings; older sisters Charmaine Hollingsworth and Blanche Devereaux, and younger brother Clayton Hollingsworth. It was revealed in The Golden Palace that she also has an older autistic brother named Thad, who wasn't around due to being put in a mental institution.[1] After Virginia was born, Blanche says she ceased to exist. She became the adorable one, the gorgeous one and the brilliant one.
Virginia's family was Jewish, and they lived on the family plantation Atlanta, Georgia. During Virginia's childhood, she and her siblings had a nanny named Viola Watkins, until one day Viola abruptly left and never came back.[2] Virginia and her sisters had a very hostile relationship, with Blanche insisting that both sisters made the other two miserable their entire lives. While Charmaine would constantly feign fictitious ailments to get out of doing chores, Virginia was actively hostile towards Blanche and tried to steal whatever she could from her; from poodle skirts to Blanche's boyfriends. Once, Virginia broke the star for the Christmas tree and told Blanche to stick her finger in it. As she did, Virginia plugged in the star and electrocuted Blanche before running to their father and telling him Blanche had electrocuted her. Blanche was then sent to her room and told she ruined Baby Jesus's birthday.[3]
On the night of Virginia's senior prom, Blanche seduced her boyfriend as revenge for Virginia borrowing her saddled shoes and scuffing them.
While in college, Blanche and Virginia began to vie for the affection of Ham Lushbough, the star quarterback on the college football team. Though Ham and Blanche flirted regularly, one day Ham began outright rejecting her advances. It was learned years later that Ham had spent the night with Virginia after mistaking her for Blanche, and the terrible sex led him to reject Blanche for decades after college.[4]
Adulthood[]
Virginia eventually married a man named Tom, who Blanche went on two dates with. Blanche was her Maid of Honor at the wedding. Tom, as it turns out, was a philandering man.
Golden years[]
In 1985, needing a kidney transplant because of a renal failure, she visits Blanche, who goes out of her way to clean the house to make Virginia jealous. Virginia, who was oddly nice to Blanche, prompts Blanche to insult her age and weight. At dinner, Virginia confesses to Blanche about her disease and tells her she needs a kidney transplant or else she'll die. After a few days, Virginia goes back to Atlanta while Blanche considers the options, to give her a kidney or not. Prior to Blanche, she asked her other sister Charmaine, who she was closer to, for her kidney, but supposedly, Charmine's kidneys were conjoined and couldn't be separated, leaving Blanche as her only option. The next day, Blanche decides she will give her the kidney and wants to reconcile with her.
In the day where Danny, who has been with the girls whilst his father is in the hospital and his mother waiting for him, is returned, Blanche comes home saying that she still has two kidneys and her sister will still be alive. As it turns out, they couldn't use her kidney because her blood vessels were too small for Virginia. The donor who will give Virginia the kidney is a retired Mormon schoolteacher.
Virginia appears again in the episode Ebb Tide, however her relationship with Blanche doesn't seem to be any different, they get into an argument after Big Daddy's death, and Blanche refuses to attend the funeral.
Family tree[]
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Relationships[]
Blanche Devereaux[]
Blanche and her sister Virginia; "Transplant" (1985)[5]
Blanche's youngest sister, who is a year Blanche's junior. As a child, Virginia was a prudent and spoiled brat with whom Blanche shared a mutual loathing and sibling rivalry. Most famously, Virginia once knocked the Christmas star off the tree and told Blanche to poke it with her finger, only to plug it in immediately as she did so. Once she had electrocuted Blanche, Virginia ran to their father and told him that Blanche had electrocuted her instead.[5] According to Blanche, Virginia had a habit of wanting what Blanche had and would take whatever opportunity she could to steal it -- including stealing Blanche's poodle skirt and Blanche's boyfriend of two dates.[5] While the two of them were in college, Virginia and Blanche pursued the same boy, a quarterback named Ham Lushbough. One night at a party, Virginia took Ham to bed and slept with him, but she was apparently so bad in bed that Ham was deterred from ever sleeping with her again. Much to Blanche's chagrin, Ham mistook Virginia for Blanche, and thus rejected all of Blanche's advances well after college.[6]
Blanche's dislike of Virginia deepened when she stole her boyfriend Tom, despite only having gone on two dates with him. She was then made to be Maid of Honor at Tom and Virginia's wedding, and she had to wear a green dress that "made (her) look like a swamp frog".[5]
However, "Transplant" saw a turn in their relationship. When Virginia went into life-threatening renal failure and had a handful of months to live, she flew unexpectedly to Blanche's home in Miami to ask her for help -- specifically, asking her to donate her kidney to save her life. At first, Blanche was in denial that Virginia would ask for help, believing her sister was looking for something to steal again. However, through much encouragement and immensely helpful talks with the other girls around the famous kitchen table, Blanche thought really hard, changed her mind, and offered her kidney to her sister. However, in the end, Blanche's kidney was not the right fit for Virginia being the kidney's vessels were "too petite". Thankfully, there was a nearly-perfect candidate for a kidney transplant from a retired Mormon schoolteacher. Blanche later admitted that while she was glad to not be losing a kidney, she was even more glad that the situation had given her a chance to reconnect with Virginia.[5]
Unfortunately, the girls' relationship relationship became strained once more after their argument following their father's death, in which Virginia accused Blanche of being too selfish and self-centered to say goodbye to her own father. Blanche had been at a ball in Miami when their father passed, and had no knowledge of his passing until after it had occurred.[7]
Quotes[]
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Appearances[]
The Golden Girls (1985 - 1992)[]
Season 1
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| 1. "The Engagement": | Absent | 14. "That Was No Lady": | Absent | ||
| 2. "Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding": | Absent | 15. "In a Bed of Rose's": | Absent | ||
| 3. "Rose the Prude": | Absent | 16."The Truth Will Out": | Absent | ||
| 4. "Transplant": | Debut | 17. "Nice and Easy": | Absent | ||
| 5. "The Triangle": | Absent | 18. "The Operation": | Absent | ||
| 6. "On Golden Girls": | Absent | 19. "Second Motherhood": | Absent | ||
| 7. "The Competition": | Absent | 20. "Adult Education": | Absent | ||
| 8. "Break-In": | Absent | 21. "The Flu": | Absent | ||
| 9. "Blanche and the Younger Man": | Absent | 22. "Job Hunting": | Absent | ||
| 10. "The Heart Attack": | Absent | 23. "Blind Ambitions": | Absent | ||
| 11. "The Return of Dorothy's Ex": | Absent | 24. "Big Daddy": | Absent | ||
| 12. "The Custody Battle": | Mentioned | 25. "The Way We Met": | Absent | ||
| 13. "A Little Romance": | Absent | ||||
Season 4
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| 1. "Yes, We Have No Havanas": | Absent | 14. "Love Me Tender": | Absent | ||
| 2. "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo": | Absent | 15. "Valentine's Day": | Absent | ||
| 3. "The One That Got Away": | Mentioned | 16."Two Rode Together": | Absent | ||
| 4. "Yokel Hero": | Absent | 17. "You Gotta Have Hope": | Absent | ||
| 5. "Bang the Drum, Stanley": | Absent | 18. "Fiddler On the Ropes": | Absent | ||
| 6. "Sophia's Wedding, Part 1": | Absent | 19. "Till Death Do We Volley": | Absent | ||
| 7. "Sophia's Wedding, Part 2": | Absent | 20. "High Anxiety": | Absent | ||
| 8. "Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket": | Absent | 21. "Little Sister": | Absent | ||
| 9. "Scared Straight": | Absent | 22. "Sophia's Choice": | Absent | ||
| 10. "Stan Takes a Wife": | Absent | 23. "Rites of Spring": | Absent | ||
| 11. "The Auction": | Absent | 24. "Foreign Exchange": | Absent | ||
| 12. "Blind Date": | Absent | 25. "We're Outta Here, Part 1": | Absent | ||
| 13. "The Impotence of Being Ernest": | Absent | 26. "We're Outta Here, Part 2": | Absent | ||
Season 5
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| 1. "Sick and Tired, Part 1": | Absent | 14. "Mary Has a Little Lamb": | Absent | ||
| 2. "Sick and Tired, Part 2": | Absent | 15. "Triple Play": | Absent | ||
| 3. "The Accurate Conception": | Absent | 16."Clinton Avenue Memoirs": | Absent | ||
| 4. "Rose Fights Back": | Absent | 17. "Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom": | Absent | ||
| 5. "Love Under the Big Top": | Absent | 18. "An Illegitimate Concern": | Absent | ||
| 6. "Dancing in the Dark": | Absent | 19. "72 Hours": | Absent | ||
| 7. "Not Another Monday": | Absent | 20. "Twice In a Lifetime": | Absent | ||
| 8. "That Old Feeling": | Absent | 21. "Sisters and Other Strangers": | Absent | ||
| 9. "Comedy of Errors": | Absent | 22. "Cheaters": | Absent | ||
| 10. "All That Jazz": | Absent | 23. "The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present": | Absent | ||
| 11. "Ebb Tide": | Appears | 24. "All Bets Are Off": | Absent | ||
| 12. "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas": | Absent | 25/26. "The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 1": | Absent | ||
| 13. "Blind Date": | Absent | 26. "The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 2": | Absent | ||
Trivia[]
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Gallery[]
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| V - E - H The Golden Girls characters
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| Main Cast | Blanche Devereaux • Dorothy Zbornak • Rose Nylund • Sophia Petrillo |
| Recurring Cast | Miles Webber • Salvadore Petrillo • Stanley Zbornak |
| Family members | Alma Lindstrom • Angelo Grisanti, Jr. • Angela Petrillo • Angela Vecchio • Aurora Devereaux • Bridget Nylund • Brother Martin • Charmaine Hollingsworth • Charles Nylund, Sr. • Clayton Hollingsworth • Curtis Hollingsworth • Don Angelo Grisanti, Sr. • Elizabeth Hollingsworth • Gloria Harker • Gunter Lindstrom • Holly Lindstrom • David Blackmore • Jamie Devereaux • Janet Blackmore • Jim Harker • Kate Griffiths • Lucas Hollingsworth • Lucy Warren • Michael Zbornak • Phillip Petrillo • Rebecca Devereaux • Theodore Hollingsworth • Virginia Warren |
References[]
- ↑ The Golden Palace, Season 1, Episode 22, "Tad". Cherry, Marc and Wooten, Jamie (writers) & Beyt, Peter D. (director) (April 16th, 1993)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 5, "Wham, Bam, Thank You Mammy". Cherry, Marc and Wooten, Jamie (writers) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (October 20th, 1990)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 4, "Transplant". Harris, Susan (writer) & Bogart, Paul (director) (October 5th, 1985)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 3, "The One That Got Away". Lloyd, Christopher (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (October 28th, 1988)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 4, "Transplant". Harris, Susan (writer) & Bogart, Paul (director) (October 5th, 1985)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 3, "The One That Got Away". Lloyd, Christopher (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (October 28th, 1988)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 5, Episode 11, "Ebb Tide". Sotkin, Mark (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (December 9th, 1989)