She and Griffith became passionate lovers. It was quite the opposite with Aneta Corsaut, introduced in Season 3, as teacher Helen Crump. I always found her very, very nice." It's been said that only Jim Nabors really got along with Bavier, no cast members attended her funeral.Ĭharlotte Observer: Elinor Donahue was introduced in Season 1 as Griffith’s love interest, but there was no chemistry, onstage or off. People say she was tough and snappish but I never found her so. As for the actress that portrayed Aunt Bee, "I loved Frances Bavier. She was in awe of Don Knotts and Ronny Howard. It was nothing personal that she was dropped, she got along well with the cast by all accounts. As a result, many of Donahue's lines went to Knotts. But that was his excuse for that."ĭonahue speculates that the unique camaraderie between Andy Griffith and Don Knotts was unexpected, that no one thought they would click in the spectacular way they did. "That's very kind of him to say, I don't think I did give them anything to write for. "I don't think that that's true," Donahue states. Andy's excuse for dropping Donahue from the cast after only 12 episodes during one season? "I didn't know how to write for you." That's an unusual occurrence but it does happen - after Lost in Space was canceled in 1968, June Lockhart joined the cast of Petticoat Junction that year as the female lead after Bea Benaderet died.ĭespite playing Andy Taylor's first regular girlfriend on the show, Elinor "Ellie" Walker, Donahue found she was a fish out of water. ![]() Hired to play Andy Taylor's girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show, Elinor Donahue found that, despite her 6 years on the long-running sitcom Father Knows Best (1954-1960), she didn't really fit in on her next TV series assignment.Īs soon as Father Knows Best left the air in the summer of 1960, Elinor Donahue was immediately cast in the Andy Griffith Show debuting that fall. On DVD / / / / / / / / Punk Book / / / / TV Shows on Blu-Ray / / / / / HolidayĮlinor Donahue discusses working with the cast of 'The Andy Griffith Show'
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