Frances Bavier may be best known for her role as the ... Behind the soft smile was a Broadway-trained actress who often felt at odds with her most famous role and her castmates.

Frances Bavier, the late actress who played the kind-hearted Aunt Bee on the TV classic, "The Andy Griffith Show," apparently felt a lot of appreciation for her local police force. When Bavier ...

She was a New York stage actress, and I think she always loved ... “Aunt Bee” actor Frances Bavier was the most difficult to work with. The show’s creator Sheldon Leonard plainly described ...

On 18 September 2015, the Somervell Citizen's Center posted a message on Facebook (since deleted) which they mistakenly claimed depicted a young Frances Bavier, the actress who played Aunt Bee ...

She was a New York stage actress, and I think she always ... chide Griffith for making unkind remarks about Bavier. “Jim Nabors counted Frances as a dear friend,” Rance recalled to the author.

Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bea ... In 1990, Gladys Farmer, a next-door neighbor, filed suit arguing that the actress had promised she would leave her $25,000 in cash, all of her household ...

She was born Frances Elizabeth Bavier on December 14, 1902, in New York City. Her original intention was to become a teacher, which is what she went to Columbia University for, though it didn’t ...

Actress Frances Bavier retired to Siler City after the series ended and became friends with a man in town whose daughter has written a book about that special friendship. Today, people leave ...

When Frances Bavier retired, she picked a small town in ... she reportedly specified that $100,000 go to the Siler City police. But the actress who played Aunt Bee was more sensible and ...

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 ...