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Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show

2015

Format:	Book
Author:	De Visé, Daniel, author.
Title:	Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show / Daniel de Visé.
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Description:	xiii, 303 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	"When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Jacket.
Subjects:	Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012. Knotts, Don, 1924-2006. Andy Griffith show (Television program) Actors -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:	Biographies.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, filmography (page 275), and index.
Contents:	Introduction -- Prologue: the call -- Don's demons -- Laugh, lest ye cry -- The bumpkins take Broadway -- Nervous men -- Andy takes a deputy -- A Hollywood friendship -- A slight thread of insanity -- Men in a hurry -- A date for Gomer -- Andy and Barney, phfftt -- The color years -- The death of Andy Taylor -- Second chances, second wives -- The gentleman lawyer -- Death in Mayberry.
LCCN:	2015005877
ISBN:	9781476747736 1476747733 * 9781476747743 1476747741
Other Number:	904144159
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	708216
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Call Number:	791.4572 De Vise

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