Known for:	The Day the Earth Stood Still, Benji, Mayberry R.F.D.
Birth name:	Frances Elizabeth Bavier
Birthday:	14 December 1902, New York, New York, USA

Miss Bavier was a life long exponent of Studebaker automobiles. The last car she bought was a 1966 model, the last model year for the make, made in the Canadian plant in Hamilton, Ontario. (Some accounts say that the car was a 1964, the last year of production in the US plant in South Bend, Indiana.) During the production of "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry RFD", she drove herself to and from the studio in it; reportedly, it can be seen in the latter series. Miss Bavier took it to her home in North Carolina after she retired there and is believed to have last driven it in 1983. After her death in 1989, it was found sitting on four flat tires and its interior had been ruined by her cats. Even so, two Andy Griffith fans bought it for $20,000 at auction. "Nobody will move me, I am not a dining room table, I am not a sofa, I am not a rug, how dare you!" (her reaction to Howard Morris trying to rearrange the set). She performed in the live action reference footage for Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" (1959). Despite her good-hearted image on screen, cast members of The Andy Griffith Show often remember her as difficult, temperamental and somewhat cold. Griffith himself said "There was just something about me she did not like."

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