Andy and Don
Subtitle: the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
By: Daniel De Visé
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781476747736
Subjects: Actors; Andy Griffith show (Television program); Biography
Description: "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."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289), selective filmography (page 275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the call; title: Don's demons; title: Laugh, lest you cry; title: The bumpkins take Broadway; title: Nervous men; title: Andy takes a deputy; title: A Hollywood friendship; title: A slight thread of insanity; title: Men in a hurry; title: A date for Gomer; title: Andy and Barney, phfftt; title: The color years; title: The death of Andy Taylor; title: Second chances, second wives; title: The gentleman lawyer; title: Death in Mayberry.