In the show's early years, she is given to wearing comically dowdy house dresses, fruit- and flower-decorated hats, and ladylike white gloves for venturing outside the house. Bee's evolution in personality is reflected in her dress. In the color years, however, Bee's suitors are respectable gentlemen and include a retired congressman, a clergyman, and a distinguished professor. In the early years, she gives her heart to scalawags of all sorts and sometimes needs Andy's help in extricating herself from unpleasant romantic situations. Bee is a member of the town choir and sings in church.īee undergoes some changes during the final three color years of The Andy Griffith Show. In the same episode, Bee plays the piano and speaks of her baptism. In an episode in which a traveling salesman comes to Mayberry peddling patent medicine, Andy tells Barney that Aunt Bee is heavily against alcohol due to her brother's trouble with the bottle. She also has a rapscallion cousin called Bradford J. Bee has several one-episode flirtations in the early seasons with men who prove to be cads.Īunt Bee's other relatives sometimes come up in episodes she speaks of trimming her brother's hair when a girl and, in one episode, her sister Nora visits. Her other food is very well regarded, and Andy is especially fond of her pork chops and cornbread biscuits, while Opie's favorite dish is her butterscotch pecan pie. Andy and Barney refer to her pickles as "kerosene cucumbers" and her marmalade as smelling like "ammonia" – though they keep these opinions from her, so as not to hurt her feelings. While Aunt Bee is celebrated for her cuisine, she falls short as a pickler and marmalade maker. She frequently contributes meals to community or church events and brings picnic baskets of food to Mayberry's tiny jail for its lawmen and inmates.
In the first episode, she serves a platter of fried chicken with all the trimmings, and thereafter her character is associated with wholesome, home-cooked meals. Bee is well known in Mayberry for her cooking skills. Andy explains to Opie that he was raised by Aunt Bee, and Bee later mentions, without elaboration, having raised other Taylors. Aunt Bee thereafter manages Andy's household and becomes Opie's surrogate mother and grandmother. In the premiere episode of The Andy Griffith Show, "The New Housekeeper," Aunt Bee returns to Mayberry after a five-year sojourn in Morgantown, West Virginia, when Andy's housekeeper Rose marries and leaves his house.
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Though she was the aunt of Sheriff Andy Taylor, virtually every character in Mayberry, even those in her age bracket such as Floyd and Emmett, called her "Aunt Bee."īlack-and-white seasons (1960–1965) Īunt Bee, full name Beatrice Taylor, is the paternal aunt of widower sheriff Andy Taylor and great-aunt to his son Opie Taylor. (1968–1971) when The Andy Griffith Show ended its run in 1968, and remained for two years. Played by Frances Bavier, the character migrated to the spinoff Mayberry R.F.D. Thanks.Aunt Bee's first appearance, "The New Housekeeper" (1960).Īunt Bee is a fictional character from the 1960 American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.
Logs must contain your original photo as proof of your visit. To log your own visit to this waymark, respectfully take your own photo of the grave site and post it with your log. "To Live in the Hearts of Those Left Behind is Not to Die". Her tombstone carries the fitting inscription: She died on Decemat the age of 87.įrancis Bavier is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Siler City.
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Bavier retired to Siler City, North Carolina after leaving Mayberry, though she did subsequently appear in several commercials and the children's movie Benji in 1974. She has the unique distinction of being the only player to endure the entire run of The Andy Griffith Show, beginning with the pilot and remaining through part of Mayberry, R.F.D.
įussy, matronly, lovable Aunt Bee became Bavier's signature role. Several features followed, as well as regular roles on television's The Great Life (1954) and The Eve Arden Show (1957), and appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason and Wagon Train. Not long after, she made the jump to the silver screen in The Day the Earth Stood Still. In 1951, she began a 365-performance run on Broadway in Point of No Return, starring Henry Fonda. A graduate of Columbia University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Bavier began acting in 1925 as a member of various stage productions, and later toured overseas with the USO.
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