Summary of Karen Knotts's Tied Up in Knotts

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 My father, Don Knotts, was an actor. He was preparing to make his second feature film, The Reluctant Astronaut, the second of five he would star in for Universal Pictures. His conversations with me frequently went like this: If this picture doesn’t work out, I’ll go back to square one. I knew he was thinking negative thoughts, and I wanted to help him break out of that cycle.
#2 When I decided to write this book, I met Dad’s first cousin Ray Lewis Knotts for the first time and asked him how Dad’s family ended up so poor. I was surprised to learn that Dad’s father, Jesse, had originally come from money.
#3 Don was born in 1924. His family moved to Westover, a suburb of Morgantown, when he was young. His mother, Elsie, was thirty-nine years old when she got pregnant with him. When she asked her youngest boy if he would rather have a baby boy or a baby girl, he answered that he would prefer a pony.
#4 Don was a boy on his daybed in the kitchen, freezing cold nights, anxious and afraid, listening to his toes talk to him to keep him company. He would later learn how to shoot the. 22 rifle.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Personal Memoirs

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547414
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Karen Knotts's Tied Up in Knotts
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#1

My father, Don Knotts, was an actor. He was preparing to make his second feature film, The Reluctant Astronaut, the second of five he would star in for Universal Pictures. His conversations with me frequently went like this: If this picture doesn’t work out, I’ll go back to square one. I knew he was thinking negative thoughts, and I wanted to help him break out of that cycle.

#2

When I decided to write this book, I met Dad’s first cousin Ray Lewis Knotts for the first time and asked him how Dad’s family ended up so poor. I was surprised to learn that Dad’s father, Jesse, had originally come from money.

#3

Don was born in 1924. His family moved to Westover, a suburb of Morgantown, when he was young. His mother, Elsie, was thirty-nine years old when she got pregnant with him. When she asked her youngest boy if he would rather have a baby boy or a baby girl, he answered that he would prefer a pony.

#4

Don was a boy on his daybed in the kitchen, freezing cold nights, anxious and afraid, listening to his toes talk to him to keep him company. He would later learn how to shoot the. 22 rifle.

#5

Don and his brothers had a lot of jokes about going over the hill to the poor house. It was a very real fear for them, since poor houses and farms began in England in the seventeenth century and didn’t begin to disappear in America until after social security became a federal program in 1935.

#6

Dad’s home life was chaotic. His brothers were often drunk, and his mother had to keep an eye on them. One night, Dad woke to the sound of an argument in the hall. Sid was singing drunkenly.

#7

Don had a very active life in the neighborhood. He would spend his time watching his sister dance, then practicing his routines on her. He would come over and sit on his garage steps and watch her dance, then practice his routines on her.

#8

Don’t forget the brothers would go to games together, and Shadow would act as a goofy shill for Sid selling hot cigarettes. They would reenact the game for Elsie, vying for her laughter with their impressions.

#9

The Knotts family had boarders, and some of them would skip out on the rent. Others took an interest in Elsie or her youngest son. A magician taught Don tricks with tarot cards.

#10

The Knotts family had a tradition of making their mother laugh. Don had a natural gift for comedy, but he hadn’t learned how to harness it yet. His mother thought he was talented but not that funny.

#11

Shadow was raised a born-again Christian, and he was deeply religious. He disagreed with the church’s prohibition on dancing, movies, and card playing, but he did feel that sex outside of marriage was a major sin.

#12

When Dad was 13, his father died of pneumonia. His mother was crying, his uncle was talking in tongues, and a preacher took him over to the bed. He died a few weeks later.

#13

Don was voted the wittiest, most popular, and best all-around senior boy in 1966. He was voted class president three out of four years. He wrote a gossip column for the school newspaper, the Red and Blue Journal, called Dots and Dashes by Knotts.

#14

Don and his friends, the Radio Three, would do shows together. They would play the musical saw and get a few laughs with their latest dummy, Danny. They would harmonize a couple of songs and do a little soft shoe.

#15

Don Knotts was a high school drama department member who performed with his friends. He was two years ahead of me, and we didn’t have a car to get to school together, so we would walk from downtown to South Elkins.

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