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Yes, it was an idealized version of southern country life, but it didn”t feel that farfetched, perhaps because Griffith knew the area so well and threw in so many aspects of his own childhood. There was always time to sit and pick for a spell, often with Andy on guitar. No pie for them.Įven better was when someone would come through Mayberry (an inordinate number of cars seemed to breakdown there), who just happened to have superior musical skills, like Flatt & Scruggs or The Dillards (as The Darlings). Well, Andy would sit right down and set them straight with his sly, homespun wisdom. And heaven help those big city folks (usually from the North, if I recall correctly) who came through Mayberry thinking they could pull one over on the local rubes. Nothing ever happened in Mayberry that Andy couldn”t fix within an half-hour episode, whether it was someone stealing Aunt Bee”s pie recipe or Opie lying or Otis needing to sleep one off in the drunk tank…again. Plus, Raleigh was seen as a thriving metropolis and destination on the show: Deputy Barney Fife frequently talked about coming to Raleigh on vacation, staying at the YMCA, and taking in a picture show.

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“The Andy Griffith Show” was the first television series that I had knowledge of being set in North Carolina and every time someone mentioned Raleigh in an episode, this little girl”s heart would swell with pride that all over the country people were hearing the name of my home town. Mayberry may have been a fictional town that stood in for Griffith”s real hometown of Mt. Not only did the widowed father take care of his boy, Opie (with the help of Aunt Bee, or “Aint” Bee, as everyone on the show pronounced it), he saw to it that none of Mayberry”s fine denizens came to any harm. Though Griffith played Andy Taylor, the sheriff of Mayberry, and I”m quite sure his jurisdiction did not extend beyond the city limits, it felt like his avuncular, benevolent presence watched over all of us. (Read Alan Sepinwall’s fine appreciation here). I never met him, but for anyone in North Carolina who was raised watching “The Andy Griffith Show” whether in real time or in its continual reruns, Griffith was the closest thing we had to a human god who wasn”t famous for throwing a ball or was named Billy Graham. When I heard of Andy Griffith”s death this morning, it felt like I”d lost an uncle.

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She made many movies during the 50s and appeared on TV asįeatured characters on shows like It's a Great Life (1954) and The Eve Arden Show (1957) before what would become her most famous role, that of Aunt Bee to Andy Taylor ( Andy Griffith) and Opie Taylor ( Ron Howard) on The Andy Griffith Show (1960).I grew up in Raleigh, N.C., or The Big City, as it was referred to on “The Andy Griffith Show.” In the movie, they were both boarders in the rooming house where the alien stayed. He later went on to play Mayberry's choir director, John Masters, on the The Andy Griffith Show (1960).

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Her first movie was the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), which was also the first time Frances appeared with Her lastĪppearance on Broadway was in the 1951 play, 'Point of No Return' starring Henry Fonda. troops in the Pacific during World War II.

She traveled with the USO to entertain the U.S. Her first Broadway appearance was in April 1925 in 'The Poor Nut', the Frances Bavier was born in New York City on December 14, 1902.