Although she solely appeared in a single season of The Andy Griffith Present, many followers of the sequence nonetheless treasure Elinor Donahue‘s efficiency as Ellie Walker, the pharmacist who received Sheriff Andy Taylor’s coronary heart for a time. In a brand new interview with Girl’s World, Donahue, now 88, reveals why her tenure on the present was so transient — and weighs on on rumors of unhealthy blood between herself and Griffith.
To Donahue, making the transition from baby actor on Father Is aware of Finest to grownup love curiosity on Andy Griffith was troublesome: “To be sincere, I felt like a hen out of a nest,” the actress revealed. “I didn’t really feel like I had all my feathers but and I didn’t really feel succesful. It was the strangest feeling.”