Frances Bavier

Age: 86 (passed away Dec. 6th, 1989)
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Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Dec. 14th, 1902

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Frances Bavier's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Andy Griffith Show	Aunt Beatri&hellip
It's a Great Life	Mrs. Amy Mo&hellip Amy Morgan
Mayberry R.F.D.	Aunt Bee Ta&hellip
The Eve Arden Show	Nora
Gruen Guild Playhouse	Sarah Cummi&hellip

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Frances Bavier was born in New York City on December 14, 1902. Her first Broadway appearance was in April 1925 in "The Poor Nut", the start of a successful Broadway career. She traveled with the USO to entertain the U.S. troops in the Pacific during World War II. Her last appearance on Broadway was in the 1951 play, "Point of No Return" starring Henry Fonda. It ran for 356 performances.

Her first movie was the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) was the first time Frances appeared with Olan Soule (Mayberry's choir director, John Masters). They were both boarders in the rooming house where the alien stayed. She made many movies during the 50s and appeared on TV as featured characters on shows like "It's a Great Life" (1954) and "The Eve Arden Show" (1957).

TRIVIA:

"Nobody will move me, I am not a dining room table, I am not a sofa, I am not a rug, how dare you!" [her reaction to Howard Morris trying to rearrange the set].
She performed in the live action reference footage for Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" (1959).
A life-long exponent of Studebaker automobiles. The last car she bought was a 1966 model, the last model year for the make, made in the Canadian plant in Hamilton, Ontario. Some accounts say that the car was a 1964, the last year of production in the US plant in South Bend, Indiana. During the production of _"The Andy Griffith Show" (1960)_ (qv) and _"Mayberry R.F.D." (1968)_ (qv) she drove herself to and from the studio in it. Reportedly, it can be seen in the latter series. Miss Bavier took it to her home in North Carolina after she retired there and is believed to have last driven it in 1983. After her death in 1989, it was found sitting on four flat tires and its interior had been ruined by cats. Even so, two Andy Griffith fans bought it for $20,000 at auction.
Despite her good-hearted image on screen, cast members of The Andy Griffith Show often remember her as difficult, temperamental and somewhat cold. Griffith himself said "There was just something about me she did not like."

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