I’ve been meaning to post this....Opie’s red hair from the Danny Kaye show reminded me. The 1962 movie The Music Man is teeming with Mayberry folk. I managed to find 15, some by trained noticing, and some by looking them up. The list....
Opie, with glorious red hair
Rance Howard
Ronnie Dapo, mostly Arnold Winkler
Delos Jewkes, Glen Cripe
Charles Lane, Mr. Frisby
Max Showalter, antique dealer in The Horse Trader
Elaine Joyce, Mavis Neff
Colin Kenny, twice a Mayberry Old-timer
Ray Kellogg, second trucker at Checkpoint Chickie
Matthew McCue, 4x a townsman
Russell Custer, 3x a townsman
Sara Segar, Mrs. Buntley in Stanger In Town, and two others
Jesslyn Fox, in Andy’s Investment
Jean Ransome, in The Bazaar
Sailor Vincent, in Off To Hollywood.
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The movie, that someone here told about, where Andy was a preacher, was riddled with TAGS stars.
As I recall Shakiest Gun in the West had 7 or 8 that I counted.
That some good noticing there Bernie. Fifteen is sure a lot. I wonder if any of the Don Knotts movies had that many.
That is a cornucopia of Mayberryans you found there Bernie!
Our local rural theater group did that musical several times. My wife was one of the gossiping women and the short little conductor. Fun to watch!