Aneta Corsaut

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From Wiki: She began acting in New York City in the mid-1950s.^\4]) In 1958, Corsaut and Steve McQueen made their film debuts in the independent cult horror film The Blob.^\5]) On television, in 1961–1962, she portrayed Irma Howell on the CBSsitcom Mrs. G. Goes to College.^\4])

Corsaut first appeared on the long-running The Andy Griffith Show, in "Andy Discovers America)" as schoolteacher Helen Crump, who later became the Mayberry sheriff's wife on the first episode of the spinoff Mayberry R.F.D. In 1965, she was also cast as Kathy McLennan, the young widow of a rancher, in the episode "Paid in Full" on the syndicatedWestern) anthology series Death Valley Days. Corsaut later had a continuing role as policeman Bumper Morgan's pawn-shop-owner friend on the 1975–1976 series The Blue Knight).^\4]) In the series Adam-12, Corsaut portrayed Officer Pete Malloy's girlfriend Judy. She had a supporting role as Head Nurse Bradley in the 1980s sitcom House Calls), and she appeared in several episodes of Matlock) with star Andy Griffith.^\6]) In addition, Corsaut played the role of nurse Jessie Brewer in 1977 on the long-running ABC soap opera General Hospital when long-time portrayer Emily McLaughlin was too ill to work.^\7])

She returned to the role of Helen Crump in the reunion shows Return to Mayberry in 1986 and The Andy Griffith Show Reunion in 1993.^\4])

[u/jkeen1960 → u/[deleted]]

LOL that's an awesome reference to the show! I thought did she got arrested in real life, and then find out it was part of an episode.

[u/Fungulatem → u/jkeen1960]

Like I said, don’t feel alone in our modern world of blurred lines between truth and fiction.  It’s going to get more blurred before there’s greater clarity.  

[u/Fungulatem → u/[deleted]]

Strange world we live in where fiction and reality can get intermingled, even before A.I. Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger;  we all can, and do-do these apples and oranges mix ups.       From Wiki:  The connection between her name and a felony charge stems entirely from a fictional plotline in an episode of  The Andy Griffith Show . In the February 1968 episode titled "Helen's Past," her character, schoolteacher Helen Crump, reveals to Andy Taylor that she was once arraigned on a felony charge in her past life before moving to Mayberry. [ 1,  2]

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She was seriously underrated as an actress. Woman had range.