16 Facts About Betty Lynn

Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn was an American actress.

Betty Lynn played Thelma Lou, Deputy Barney Fife's girlfriend, on The Andy Griffith Show.

Betty Lynn played a major role in an episode of the television series Little House on the Prairie.

Betty Lynn's father was a civil engineer, who worked initially as a municipal employee for Kansas City and later as a private contractor.

Betty Lynn's mother, described as "an accomplished mezzo-soprano", taught Betty in her early childhood to sing and enrolled her in the Kansas City Conservatory of Music when she was only five years old.

Betty Lynn went with her mother to live with her mother's parents, Josie and George Andrew Lynn, who resided in Kansas City.

When she was 17, Betty Lynn auditioned to participate in United Service Organizations entertainment.

Betty Lynn began her acting career in radio as a member of the cast on a daytime drama on a station in Kansas City.

Betty Lynn was discovered in a Broadway production by Darryl F Zanuck and signed to 20th Century Fox.

Betty Lynn made her film debut in the 1948 film Sitting Pretty, which won a Photoplay Gold Medal.

Betty Lynn was Viola Slaughter in the ABC Western Texas John Slaughter.

In 2006, Betty Lynn retired from acting and relocated to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the home town of Andy Griffith and the town on which Mayberry is believed to have been based, despite Griffith's claims to the contrary.

In 1950 in Los Angeles, Betty Lynn bought a house, where her mother and grandparents moved in and lived with her for years.

Betty Lynn thus assumed the off-screen roles of breadwinner and caretaker.

Betty Lynn never married, although she stated she was once engaged.

Betty Lynn was inducted into the Missouri Walk of Fame, located in Marshfield, Missouri, in 2007.