Spring 2021 Mayberry Magazine

Spring 2021 MayberryMAGAZINE Mayberry Man Andy Griffith Show Movie nearing release A star comes to visit Andy Finds Himself Mayberry Trivia College opened new Test your knowledge world What’s Happening? Comprehensive calendar ISSUE 30 Table of Contents Cover Story — Finally here? Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, work on the much ballyhooed Mayberry Man movie has continued, working around delays, postponements, and schedule changes. Now, the movie is just a few months away from release to its supporters, and hopefully, a public debut not too long afterward. Page 8 Andy finds himself He certainly wasn’t the first student to attend the University of North Carolina, nor the last, but Andy Griffith found an outlet for his creative talents at the venerable state institution, finding himself, and his career path, at the school. Page 4 Guest stars galore Being a guest star on “The Andy Griffith Show” could be a launching pad for young actors, and even already established stars sometimes wanted the chance to work with the cast and crew there. But it was Jean Hagen, driving a fast car and doing some smooth talking, who was the first established star to grace the set. Page 6 What To Do, What To Do… The pandemic put a halt to many shows and events over the course of 2020, but there might very well be a few concerts, shows, and events stirring in Mount Airy — the real-life Mayberry — this spring and summer. Page 10 SPRING 2021 SPRING So, You Think You Know • The Andy Griffith Show? Well, let’s see just how deep your knowledge runs. Test your Andy Griffith knowledge with our Mayberry Trivia Quiz! Page 14 The region’s ONLY comprehensive guide to entertainment, fun, and all things Mayberry, reaching more than 40,000 local residents AND tourists with each edition! Published by The Mount Airy News MAYBERRY MAGAZINE | 319 N. Renfro Street, Mount Airy, NC 27030 2 Travel in style in a 2021 CORSAIR RESERVE MAYBERRY MAGAZINE Lincoln Corsair Reserve models shown. Available at certified EV dealers only. • Turbocharged 2.3L I-4 Engine • Premium Audio System Scenic Lincoln • Intelligent All-Wheel Drive (AWD) Hwy 601, Mount Airy, NC 27030 336-789-9591 • • Lincoln Co-Pilot360 Plus Package sceniclincoln.com 2021 SPRING • Hands Free Liftgate • Blind Spot Sensor 70047157 | 3 ANDY GRIFFITH found himself at UNC By Eliza Hart Special to Mayberry Magazine As a college student attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during COVID-19, many experiences have been quite Mount Airy Museum of Regional History different than any other year Album Cover for “What is was, was Football!” album. Released Nov. 14, 1953. for students. But what has Andy Griffith photographed as the The album’s most famous comedy sketch about a naive country gentlemen remained the same is the rich Men’s Glee Club president in the arriving at his first football game, was set in a fictional world based on experiences available through 1947 UNC Chapel Hill yearbook Kenan Memorial at UNC in Chapel Hill. The album sold a million copies and campus life. “Yackety Yack.” launched Griffith’s career. Unknowingly, I am not the first nor last Surry Countian this stadium where Griffith identity shift could mean to go to Chapel Hill. The most would catch his first break in taking on a new hobby or famous student would be none the world of entertainment. shaking off an old childhood other than Andy Griffith. The comedy monologue, nickname. Griffith decided With the soaring popularity “What it was, was football,” that he was going to make a of his self-titled TV series, recorded in 1953, was change as well. Andy Griffith became a Griffith’s first introduction According to an alumni household name in the 1960s. to fame. The performance profile in the Carolina Alumni The Andy Griffith Show is from the perspective of Review, Griffith initially charmed the world with a humble countryman who told UNC that his name was its southern values, idyllic stumbles upon a football “Andrew Griffith,” when his hometown, and moments game and has absolutely no real first name was truly just of comic relief from an idea what is going on. “Andy,” because “Andrew” otherwise hectic world. But The “little bitty college sounded more professional. before the local legend was a town” that Griffith refers to The Daily Tar Heel, a student- Hollywood star, he attended is likely Chapel Hill, and the run newspaper, referred the University of North stadium that the fictional to Griffith wrongfully as Andy Griffith as Sir Walter Raleigh Carolina at Chapel Hill. game took place in would “Andrew” in many of the alongside his wife Barbara. Though Griffith attended be none other than Kenan reviews of his playmaker UNC in the 1940s, the school Stadium on campus. The performances. through before a rehearsal that produced so many North recording sold more than 1 Though he entered the or performance. Were it not SPRING 2021 SPRING Carolina greats remains million copies and launched school in the hopes of for his experiences at Chapel • unchanged in many ways. The the North Carolinian on becoming a Moravian pastor, Hill, we may have never met impressive Wilson Library the path to stardom. He he soon discovered his true the Sheriff Andy Taylor we still overlooks the quad where performed the monologue passion: the stage. As part know and love. students, such as Griffith, at the stadium several times of the Playmakers Company, continue to enjoy their time in his life and recorded the Griffith excelled in many Eliza Hart is a volunteer at the Mount master copy at a local Chapel performances including, Airy Museum of Regional History. between classes. Players for Eliza is also a student at the University the North Carolina football Hill studio. “The Gondolier” and “The of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and team competed in the same Many college students take Mikado.” The Historic is studying media, journalism, and Kenan Memorial stadium as their time at school to redefine Playmakers Theater still history. She has lived in Pilot Mountain they do today, albeit with a few or rebrand themselves before has its dramatic, Greek her entire life and plans to continue studying museology after graduation. upgrades being made in the they enter the world beyond revival-style columns that She can be reached at eliza.jo1010@ past 80 years. In fact, it was their hometowns. This Griffith would have walked MAYBERRY MAGAZINE gmail.com | 4 319 North Renfro Street Mount Airy, North Carolina 27030 336.786.4141 Publisher Sandra Hurley MayberryMagazine [email protected] Get 4 issues delivered to Editor John Peters your home [email protected] Only Contributing Writers/Photographers Subscribe Randy Turner, Tom Joyce, Eliza Hart $ 00 Now! Circulation & Distribution Director 28. 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Renfro Street, Mount Airy, NC 27030 70044667 | 5 MANY STARS SPED THROUGH MAYBERRY but she was the first By Randy Turner Pudney, beginning in 1960 best-remembered movie role, Room for Daddy.” in “The Ann Sothern Show.” though, is as Lina Lamont, This created quite a quan- Editor’s Note: This is part Another first season episode the vain and talentless star dary for Thomas and Leon- of a series of occasional es- guest-starred William Schal- of silent films whose shrill ard. Should they recast the says and articles by author lert as “Quiet Sam” who voice did not lend itself to role? Due to the more re- Randy Turner, examining played the recurring charac- the “talkies” in the 1952 stricted social norms of the various aspects of the famed ter of the wise teacher musical comedy “Sing- time, they didn’t think the au- The Andy Griffith Show. Leander Pomfritt in ing in the Rain.” Her dience would approve of the From the beginning, “The “The Many Loves of performance won her characters having gotten a di- Andy Griffith Show” was Dobie Gillis,” begin- a Best Supporting Ac- vorce. But the two producers blessed with an extremely ning in 1959. Schal- tress Academy Award were upset about Hagen’s de- talented group of core actors, lert was still playing nomination. cision to leave so they made from series regulars to recur- the

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