![]() ![]() Grand Marshall in the parades, an honored guest at civic functions, a flower of verisimilitude as she maneuvered the narrow streets of Siler City in the very same pea green 1966 two-door Studebaker Daytona she drove on Mayberry RFD now seen five days a week in syndication.īut what began as an immersion in Americana collapsed into a menagerie existence, like a black and white Twilight Zone episode. She was warmly bosomed into this community of 3,700 aw-shucks-just-plain-folks. ![]() In this mythical shire mentioned so fondly in scripts produced for her by former writers from Amos & Andy and Leave it To Beaver she hoped to find the small town goodness she herself came to represent in the minds of middle America. She didn’t care much for people either, one of the reasons she moved-alone at age seventy-all the way across the continent to Siler City, North Carolina where her biggest fan operated a family furniture store. A Broadway and motion picture performer turned small screen superstar who, in 1970, abruptly decided to take the money and run a year before her Top Ten sitcom Mayberry RFD left the air.Īfter fifteen years of the grind of a weekly television series she’d had it with the business of show. ![]() Hardly the domesticated matriarch, Ms Bavier was a sophisticate who resided in New York and Los Angeles her entire life, working alongside screen legends like Bette Davis and Henry Fonda. That was the only year the Griffith/Mayberry show(s) fell out of the top 15, after there was no more Aunt Bee.įrances Bavier, the Emmy-winning actress who gave life to Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show was, by all accounts, the polar opposite of her alter ego. The only original cast member, Frances Bavier, continued to play Aunt Bee on the new series.īavier left Mayberry RFD in 1970, the series was cancelled after the next season. When Andy Griffith left The Andy Griffith Show in 1968, the production continued on as Mayberry RFD. Is hands down the best site on the Web for classic TV.' ![]()
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