Betty Lynn

Betty Lynn was an American actress who started in Kansas City radio and later performed on Broadway in Walk with Music, Oklahoma!, and Park Avenue. Darryl F. Zanuck discovered her in a Broadway production and signed her to 20th Century Fox. She made her film debut in Sitting Pretty (1948), which won a Photoplay Gold Medal, and her other films included June Bride, Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), and Cheaper by the Dozen (1950). On television she played Betty Blake on The Egg and I, Viola Slaughter on Texas John Slaughter, and June Wallace on Where's Raymond?. She was cast as Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffith Show and played her from 1961 to 1966 in 26 episodes. She returned as Thelma Lou in Return to Mayberry (1986). Lynn retired from acting in 2006. In 2007, the Missouri Walk of Fame in Marshfield, Missouri, honored her, and in 2016 she received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.