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’ 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.
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