Imagine growing up with famous comedian Don Knotts as your father. You might picture lots of funny faces at the dinner table or knock knock jokes on the way to school. The Andy Griffith Show actor’s daughter, Karen, once gave some insight into what it was really like at home with Don.
Don Knotts, Kathryn Metz, and their two children | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Karen Knotts on what Don Knotts was like as a father
Karen and her brother, Tom, grew up in Glendale, CA, which she says is about as Mayberry-like as a neighborhood is going to get in Los Angeles. She and Tom were still young when their parents divorced. Even so, they had a pretty idyllic childhood, according to Karen.
“It was a little surreal,” she told the Murfreesboro Post in 2011. “We lived in Glendale, which was almost Mayberry-like in smallness. It was a tight-knit community,...
Don Knotts, Kathryn Metz, and their two children | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Karen Knotts on what Don Knotts was like as a father
Karen and her brother, Tom, grew up in Glendale, CA, which she says is about as Mayberry-like as a neighborhood is going to get in Los Angeles. She and Tom were still young when their parents divorced. Even so, they had a pretty idyllic childhood, according to Karen.
“It was a little surreal,” she told the Murfreesboro Post in 2011. “We lived in Glendale, which was almost Mayberry-like in smallness. It was a tight-knit community,...
- 5/13/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Andy Griffith Show actor Don Knotts had his daughter, Karen Knotts, in 1954 with his first wife, Kathryn Metz (they also had a son together named Thomas). While there was a lot of love between Don and Karen, they disagreed on one major thing when Karen was a young teen.
Don Knotts didn’t want daughter Karen to enter the world of show business
Karen thinks of Don as a “great father.” But they did disagree about one thing. Karen wanted to act for as long as she could remember. Don didn’t think that was a good idea.
”I always wanted to be an actress, even when I was young, but he said, ‘No, that’s not a good life for a child,’” she told the Murfreesboro Post in 2011.
But when Karen auditioned for drama class in junior high she “came alive.”
Karen Knotts | Valerie Macon/Getty Images
“I thought,...
Don Knotts didn’t want daughter Karen to enter the world of show business
Karen thinks of Don as a “great father.” But they did disagree about one thing. Karen wanted to act for as long as she could remember. Don didn’t think that was a good idea.
”I always wanted to be an actress, even when I was young, but he said, ‘No, that’s not a good life for a child,’” she told the Murfreesboro Post in 2011.
But when Karen auditioned for drama class in junior high she “came alive.”
Karen Knotts | Valerie Macon/Getty Images
“I thought,...
- 5/7/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Don Knotts had a lot of love to give. Though his final marriage to Frances Yarborough is probably his most famous, The Andy Griffith Show actor was married three times. Here’s a look back at the famous comedian’s marriages with Kathryn Metz, Loralee Czuchna, and Yarborough.
Don Knotts and Loralee Czuchna | Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Don Knotts’ first wife Kathryn Metz
Knotts and Kathryn Metz were college sweethearts. Metz was “a woman of substance, the daughter of a Northern Baptist minister from Wheeling, a West Virginia city so far north that it was almost Ohio,” Daniel de Visé wrote in his biography Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show. They dated for two years then got married in Metz’s father’s church in 1947. They were together for 13 years and had two children, Thomas and Karen.
While Knotts was...
Don Knotts and Loralee Czuchna | Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Don Knotts’ first wife Kathryn Metz
Knotts and Kathryn Metz were college sweethearts. Metz was “a woman of substance, the daughter of a Northern Baptist minister from Wheeling, a West Virginia city so far north that it was almost Ohio,” Daniel de Visé wrote in his biography Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show. They dated for two years then got married in Metz’s father’s church in 1947. They were together for 13 years and had two children, Thomas and Karen.
While Knotts was...
- 5/3/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Stars: Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, Rich Lounello, A.J. DeLucia, Steve Diasparra, Danielle Donahue, Ken Van Sant | Written and Directed by Brett Piper
The latest film from cult auteur Brett Piper (They Bite, The Screaming Dead, Raiders of the Living Dead) Queen Crab is – from start to finish – a loving, action-packed tribute to the classic days of practical stop-motion animation, evoking the days of Ray Harryhausen creature features.
The official synopsis reads thus: A meteor crashes into a quiet lake in the remote countryside, awakening a centuries-old beast. She emerges from the deep and tears through a nearby town and its inhabitants. The humans must fight for their lives and stop this Queen Crab before she can hatch an army of babies that will overrun the entire world.
Though to be fair that synopsis exagerates things a little. It’s more a case of girl develops relationship with a crab,...
The latest film from cult auteur Brett Piper (They Bite, The Screaming Dead, Raiders of the Living Dead) Queen Crab is – from start to finish – a loving, action-packed tribute to the classic days of practical stop-motion animation, evoking the days of Ray Harryhausen creature features.
The official synopsis reads thus: A meteor crashes into a quiet lake in the remote countryside, awakening a centuries-old beast. She emerges from the deep and tears through a nearby town and its inhabitants. The humans must fight for their lives and stop this Queen Crab before she can hatch an army of babies that will overrun the entire world.
Though to be fair that synopsis exagerates things a little. It’s more a case of girl develops relationship with a crab,...
- 10/25/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The giant crab portion of the nature run amok sub-genre has been woefully under-served, but indie flick director Brett Piper is looking to change that with his latest flick, Queen Crab. Check out the first stills and more.
The film has wrapped and is now in post-production. Piper writes and directs the film, which stars Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, A.J. DeLucia, and Danielle Donahue. No official plot synopsis was available at press time, but if you check out the stills below, well, I think they pretty much speak for themselves... Giant crab goes on rampage... wrecks structures... and kills townsfolk. Really? That's all that we want! Dig on the cool old-school stop-motion action of the clip.
For more, including some neat behind-the-scenes photos, click on the link below to head on over to Brett Piper's Facebook page. Thanks to the ever vigilant Avery G for the heads-up!
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
The film has wrapped and is now in post-production. Piper writes and directs the film, which stars Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, A.J. DeLucia, and Danielle Donahue. No official plot synopsis was available at press time, but if you check out the stills below, well, I think they pretty much speak for themselves... Giant crab goes on rampage... wrecks structures... and kills townsfolk. Really? That's all that we want! Dig on the cool old-school stop-motion action of the clip.
For more, including some neat behind-the-scenes photos, click on the link below to head on over to Brett Piper's Facebook page. Thanks to the ever vigilant Avery G for the heads-up!
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
- 4/2/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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