This abomination
Copies of this kept coming up on an Ebay search I was doing for an author with a similar name. As luck would have it, it came out a couple of years after Frances Bavier died.
She hated playing Aunt Bee.
She was from New York, was classically trained and hated having the bloated corpse of this old bag hung around her neck. She also was a pain in the ass to work with, apparently. She died as a sort of recluse in rural North Carolina, surrounded by no-one.
Aunt Bee’s Kerosene Cucumbers was some kind of running gag in an episode about terrible pickles, but I don’t really get the joke and wasn’t motivated enough to work it out.
November 12, 2025 — 6:03 pm
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