I think it’s just an assumption. I think it’s also an assumption that they’re in the same county at all.
Yep…“I’m from Dardanelle in Yell County” was her line…and that’s where I’m from.
Another coincidence is that Charles Portis, who wrote the book, went to college with my dad back in the late 50s…they were both older students who were in the military before going to college, so I reckon that’s what they had in common. (They may have worked together on the school paper, but I’m not sure…my dad definitely wrote for his med school student paper later on) I actually had lunch at a BBQ place one time with him and my dad when I was maybe 7. I remeber his as a pleasany, funny man with a flattop and horn-rimmed glasses.
That’s what I’m thinking…that Mt. Pilot was just the bigger town up the road, and that it wasn’t necessarily in the same county.
In my home county, there was only one sheriff, and he split time between Dardanelle and Danville. Yell County is fairly large and there’s mountains and stuff, so back in the old days, when travel was more difficult, that was probably the reasoning behind it. Dardanelle is at the northern edge of the county, right by the Arkansas River, while Danville is more or less in the center, but it’s a smaller town. Dardanelle was more the “main” county seat.
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Where do you think baby statues come from?
There was a circuit court judge who came along to hold trial periodically. At least a couple of episodes involved a trial (the one with Bill Bixby IIRC and the one with the attractive wealthy socialite who impugned Andy’s honor [“and you don’t even wanna know what the fine is for honor impugnin’”*).
I wonder if there were ever any sherrif’s departments that had cells like that. Even in Old West ghost towns and in old movies set in Hicksville the cells were usually separated from the common area. (Even in Coweta County, Georgia in the 1940s where this moviewas set and in whose jail it was filmed with Andy as prisoner rather than sheriff; that’s an excellent movie btw, and if you’ve never seen Andy Griffith in one of his dramatic/villain roles he’s one of the best baddies in the biz.)
Amen: watch “A Face in the Crowd” and you will never look at “Ange” the same again.
Skippy. Daphne scares me. Hell, Daphne scares Andy and he doesn’t scare easy.
I wish they’d given Helen another last name.
“Crump” is like onomatopoeia for taking a shit.
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Are those the girls they’re with when Andy says “Barney, will you tell your girl to quit hanging her head out the window like a dog?”
My favorite of Andy’s dates was Lydia. “It’s a city in ancient Greece. But that’s not where I’m from.”
We learn in one episode that Helen had a bit of a past when she was still in St. Louis and had been arrested. I can’t remember what it was for- some type of activism IIRC. Or maybe she had killed her john but it turned out he had it coming. In any case, by the end of the half hour Andy was over it.
Helen was a journalism major and was writing a story on the Kansas City mob (it was Kansas City, not St. Louis), and she was working undercover in a illegal casino when it got raided. Once the law realized she wasn’t involved and was just writing an article, the charges got dropped.
God, I know too much about the Andy Griffith Show.
I have to admit I prefer “No Time for Sargents” more, but I do agree that he makes a very convincing sociopath in A Face in the Crowd. That braying laugh of his gets on my nerves …
And isn’t Patricia Neal just an amazing actress?
“Hello, Doll!”
Due to my lifelong crush on Elinore Donahue, I tend to believe that the disappearance of Eiilie after one season is an example of how un-Andy Andy Griffith was. (good thing the manicurist episode had Genie instead of Samantha: Elizabeth Montgomery was another holy terror, who fired the first Mrs Larry Tate for being friends with a writer she had demanded be purged)
Another of Andy’s girlfriends was Peg McMillan, the proto-Buckhead Betty who orders wine while Andy has beer (and thus was AG’s total address of Southern Class issues; encyclopedic compared to his take on racial issues). Peg was played by Joanna Moore, who was Tatum O’Neil’s mother.
Flannery O’Connor still had a year or two left to submitt some script ideas to Andy. But that would be as likely as Hallmark commissioning a lineof Father’s Day cards from Slyvia Plath.
According to the website linked above, that was because she was supposed to be a one-shot character, but happened to have the best onscreen chemistry with Andy, so they kept her on.
IIRC, her disappearance was more due to the lack of chemistry between the two, and Griffith even said it was his fault for being uncomfortable showing affection onscreen.
Nip it. Nip it. Nip it right in the bud. Nip it!
I can’t find a reliable source right now, but I’m pretty certain Elinor Donahue has said she asked to be let go, because she wasn’t confident that she was doing her role well. She was wrong, of course.
OTOH, The first Floyd the Barber disappeared very quickly because Andy Griffith was not Andy Taylor, and recognized that Walter Baldwin was just not funny.
Was Otis ever actually ever sentenced and compelled to be in jail every time he gets drunk, or is he just allowed to come and sleep it off at the jail out of convenience?