Betty Lynn Net Worth is
$7 Million

Mini Biography

Missouri born-and-bred Betty Ann Lynn was created in Kansas Town. Her name is really as light, breezy and innocent because the individuals she performed on film and Television. She actually is pleasantly appreciated for playing TV’s sweet-as-apple-pie “Thelma Lou” who acquired the challenging end from the bargain because the ever-patient partner of Don Knotts’ neurotic “Barney Fife” personality over the Andy Griffith Present (1960). It had taken another reunion decades afterwards to finally obtain those two individuals wedded. While Betty appreciated other entertainment outlet stores such as for example film as well as the stage, her “Thelma Lou” personality that continues to be indelibly etched within the minds of most her fans. Betty originated from a musical background because the daughter of the singer and began her career simply because a young teenager performing both in supper night clubs and in Broadway in such musical productions simply because “Walk with Music” (1940) and “Oklahoma!”, the last mentioned as a dance replacement. She also entertained the soldiers with her light soprano at USO tent displays towards the finish of World Battle II. In the past due 1940s, after getting “uncovered” within the short-lived Broadway creation of “Recreation area Avenue”, the fresh-faced Betty was agreed upon on being a starlet for Twentieth Hundred years Fox and made an appearance in several of the popular films, billed herself briefly as “Betty Ann Lynn” before abruptly falling her middle name from the credits. Betty made her film debut in a little, sprightly role within the common Clifton Webb comedy Sitting down Pretty (1948). After another minimal part in House for Peggy (1948), she gained a featured component playing child sister to Barbara Bates in June Bride-to-be (1948) starring Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery. She continuing the momentum, all in a same airy vein, because the bobbysoxer little girl of superstars Loretta Youthful in Mother Is really a Freshman (1949) and Fred MacMurray and Maureen O’Hara in Dad Was a Fullback (1949). After showing up again in images starring Clifton Webb and Bette Davis (Cheaper with the Dozen (1950) and Payment on Demand (1951), respectively), her blossoming film profession lost major surface. Betty instead centered on 50s Television and also came back to the level with a creation of “The Moon Is normally Blue” (1954). She still made an appearance occasionally on the bigger screen but, generally, was either unbilled or the images themselves had been obscure. While on hiatus in the Disney series, “Tx John Slaughter” (1959), Betty examined and gained the recurring function of Deputy Barney Fife’s continuous gal on Andy Griffith’s homespun series. She became area of the small-town ensemble for five periods — until Knotts officially still left the series to test, full-time, in movies. The producers had been thinking about keeping her on the display but Betty sensed her function was imperfect, without her link with Don Knotts, after Barney Fife still left. TV function continued, never straying definately not her wholesome picture, with recurring assignments on Family members Affair (1966) and My 3 Sons (1960) and visitor parts over the Farmer’s Little girl (1963), The Smith Family members (1971) and Small House over the Prairie (1974). Following a 1978 component on an bout of Barnaby Jones (1973), small was noticed of her until she rejoined the Mayberry ensemble for the reunion in it movie Go back to Mayberry (1986). Within the same calendar year, Andy Griffith employed her to try out his secretary in a small number of shows for his Matlock (1986) series. Betty’s last performing role on Television happened in 1990 and, save for the stage appearance in “Like Words” in 2002 contrary another previous Mayberry citizen Howard Morris, she officially still left acting. Residing in exactly the same Western world Hollywood house since 1950, she moved away from state just a couple years back to Install Airy, NEW YORK – the principal real-life inspiration for the fictional Mayberry. The never-married previous celebrity lives in a pension community there.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Betty Lynn
Profession	Actor
Nationality	American
Awards	TV Land Legend Award
Nominations	Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In Children's Programming, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In A Children/Youth/Family Special, TV Land "Who Knew They Could Sing?" Award
Movies	Return to Mayberry, Cheaper by the Dozen, June Bride, Father Was a Fullback, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Gun for a Coward, The Louisiana Hussy, Behind the High Wall, Payment on Demand, Sitting Pretty, Mother Is a Freshman, Matlock: The Don
TV Shows	The Andy Griffith Show, Where's Raymond?