Frances Bavier

Frances Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s.

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Bavier and Andy Griffith did not get along, for which Bavier was sorely repentant on her death bed.

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Bavier appeared in many plays on Broadway, including Point of No Return alongside Henry Fonda, and played the part of Mrs. Barley in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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Bavier, who was born in New York City, bought a home in Siler City, North Carolina sight unseen in 1972 and lived the rest of her life there. "I fell in love with North Carolina, all the pretty roads and the trees," she said in an interview. She died from a heart attack in 1989 at her home in Siler City at the age of 86, just 8 days before her 87th birthday.

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