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| | Andy Griffith at Hollywood.com |
 | | Griffith's first feature film, though, was much more provocative--Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" (1957)--wherein the star boldly and successfully explored the underbelly of his emerging image as Lonesome Rhodes, a small-town yokel turned national media celebrity turned egotistical Frankenstein's monster. |
 | | Griffith did, however, form a production company, Andy Griffith Enterprises, and he kept very busy in TV-movies in which he deliberately--and often with success--attempted now and then to vary or expand the kind of roles he usually played. |
 | | Griffith reprised the role in several TV-movies, and this self-effacing star, a Will Rogers for the home electronics era, finally received a measure of acclaim when he was inducted in the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 1992. |
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