Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will always be ...

Author Richard Kelly in his 1981 book, The Andy Griffith Show, extensively interviewed the show’s stars and producers – Sheldon Leonard, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, and more – in his in-depth look at ...

In the world of classic television shows, few are more popular and more iconic than The Andy Griffith Show. The series ran all throughout the ’60s, giving life to iconic characters like Deputy Barney ...

In her flowered dress and apron, Aunt Bee delighted the Mayberry townsfolk with her fried chicken and pecan pies, floating cheerfully through a world of church picnics and county fairs. And in real ...

Actress Frances Bavier died on this day in 1989 and is buried in Siler City. She played Aunt Bee on "The Andy Griffith Show." A Mount Airy hotel has turned one of its rooms into an Aunt Bee museum, ...