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[SeaMaiden]

 UPDATE!!!!  The picture is fake news... I got fooled along with a lot of people I guess... It is not Aunt Bee at all!   Oh well!.... learn something new everyday

"Aunt Bee" Was a Pinup Girl in Her Youth!

BornDiedResting placeAlma materOccupationYears activeKnown for

Frances Bavier

Frances Elizabeth Bavier December 14, 1902 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

December 6, 1989 (aged 86) Siler City, North Carolina, U.S.

Oakwood Cemetery, Siler City, North Carolina, U.S.

Columbia University American Academy of Dramatic Arts

Actress

1927–1974

The Andy Griffith Show Mayberry R.F.D.

[Desertdi]

I certainly would never have guessed

[dex]

She sure was a beauty and all natural.

[twinsister]

I would have never guessed that was Aunt Bea!   She was beautiful.

[SeaMaiden]

@Desertdi  I never would have guessed it either! She was so type cast as " aunt Bea" that no one thinks that at one time she was a sexy  young  lady.  I do think her beauty showed through as Aunt Bea. 

An Interesting tidbit of info.. when she was on the show Andy of Mayberry,  Andy Griffith did not want this photo and others of "Aunt Bee"   in sexy poses out there for the public to see... he wanted to keep  Aunt Bee a special sweet and inocent  GrandMother type to  the publics eye.  Of course in those days this was much easier to do... today NO WAY.

[OKPrincess]

Aunt Bea? She was a beautiful lady.

[SilleeMee]

I don't believe that is a pic of a younger 'Aunt Bea'. I think that is an urban legend. It could actually be Gloria DeHaven. Who knows.

[Pearlee]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I don't believe that is a pic of a younger 'Aunt Bea'. I think that is an urban legend. It could actually be Gloria DeHaven. Who knows.

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@SilleeMee  My first thought was the mouth doesn't look like Bea's in the youthful photo.

[sunshine45]

the younger woman in the photo is definitely NOT frances bavier.

the image is a promotional shot of actress Gloria DeHaven used for publicity in conjunction with the 1949 movie Yes Sir, That’s My Baby in which she starred alongside Donald O’Connor and Charles Coburn. (DeHaven was was 24 years old when that photograph was taken, while Frances Bavier would have been 47 at that time.)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/young-aunt-bee-pin-up/

[SeaMaiden]

@sunshine45   Gosh  looks like I was fooled with a lot of other people! LOL!  Fake news huh??  Here is a real picture of her taken in the 1930's... I HOPE