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Tammy and The Bachelor [VHS]

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This is perhaps the only romantic comedy that Leslie Nielsen ever made, and he does a great job of it. He was a real hunk in his younger years! I'm also a big fan of Debbie Reynolds' movies from the Fifties and Sixties, and this is one of her better ones. It was a big box-office hit in 1957 and continues to wear well as a romantic comedy, though, of course, the attitudes toward women and African Americans will seem very paternalistic to many people today (though very accurate to the times).

Tammy Tyree is an uneducated orphan living on a riverboat on the Mississippi with her moonshiner grandpa (Walter Brennan) when a private plane crashes near them. While nursing its pilot, Pete (Leslie Nielsen), back to health, Tammy falls in madly in love with him. But Pete sees Tammy as a child (she is 17 and he is about 30). He does promise her grandfather that if anything ever happens to Grandpa, Pete will take in Tammy.

Soon after Pete leaves, Tammy has to take him up on his promise, because Grandpa is caught red-handed operating his still and hauled off to jail. After a long, tiring walk, tugging her goat behind her, Tammy is amazed to encounter the, to her, opulent lifestyle of Pete and his parents and aunt, who live on a rundown Southern plantation. She is terribly disappointed to discover Pete is engaged, but the relationship is rocky, because Pete wants to grow prize-winning tomatoes and save the plantation, while his fiancée wants him to move to the big city and work at her rich daddy's corporation. Meanwhile, Pete's best friend has been in love with Pete's fiancée for years, and begins to make moves on both her and Tammy while Pete is preoccupied with his tomatoes.

The song, "Tammy's In Love," sung very pleasingly by Debbie Reynolds in the film, was a big hit the year the film came out. Debbie was probably in her early twenties at the time and very pretty and perky. I found it fascinating to see Fay Wray of King Kong fame playing Pete's fifty-something mother. She looks beautiful. Mildred Natwick, a delightful comic actress, plays Pete's aunt and adds a lot to the story. I love Walter Brennan, a hugely talented comic actor. His portrayal of Grandpa was both warm and funny.

This movie is just as the character Tammy herself, charming, kind, and good natured. It isn't driven by heavy, complicated themes, but does everything have to be? There is something of great value in simplicity and honesty. I much prefer them to arrogance and cruelty. When I think of a young girl in love, I will always see Debbie Reynolds at her windowsill, bathed in moonlight, singing Tammy. Tammy and Bachelor is a delightful, delicate movie, well worth watching.

I absolutely love this movie. I haven't seen it enough. Debbie Reynolds singing is superb and Leslie Neilson is a real hunk. It is kind of corny but, its a great movie. I know all of the songs by heart and sing along everytime I watch it. However, I wish they would bring it out on DVD soon, I refuse to buy VHS.

Does anyone know when Tammy & The Bachelor will be released on DVD? I would love all of the Tammy movies to be released on DVD - I would buy them immediately! They are so sweet, innocent, and fun to watch!

Debbie Reynolds was the first and best of the three Tammy's to appear in the first four Tammy movies, which also included "Tammy and the Millionaire," "Tammy Tell Me True," and "Tammy and the Doctor." While there were moments when Debbie Reynolds was in danger of losing her believability, she somehow seemed to pull it off all the way to the end of the movie.

Tammy Tyree is a backwoods river girl with a vocal dialect reminiscent of the hills of Tennessee and possibly the Elizabethan era. Her lack of knowledge of the modern world makes her both innocent and yet very knowledgeable. She knows about "birthing" and about life, but very little about the ways of modern society. She is consistently fascinating as she sees us in a way we rarely see ourselves. Yet, we also know that while this 1957 movie continues to recede further into the past, the era in which Tammy lived was the era of our fathers or grandfathers, and really was not that long ago. Indeed, there may yet be some people living the way Tammy did. Her life was simple, with simple morals and values, and yet, we recognize them and admire them.

Into Tammy's world falls Peter Brent (Leslie Nielson), crashing into the Mississippi River in a plane. Tammy and her grandfather, the venerable Walter Brennan, nurse Peter back to health. Beautiful Tammy and her straightforward ways quickly charm Peter. Once Tammy and her Grandpa nurse Peter back to health and departs their river home, he tells Grandpa to send Tammy to his house if anything should ever happen to him. Soon after Grandpa is arrested for making corn liquor and Tammy trudges off across the county to Peter's stately southern house.

Tammy soon charms Peter's entire family and nearly everyone else she contacts, including Fay Wray as Mrs. Brent and Mildred Natwick as dotty Aunt Renie. Naturally that excludes Mala Powers as Barbara Bissle, who sees Peter as her future husband.

This movie is a wonderful movie that is excellent for all members of the family, and is quickly becoming a period peace about an era of the United States when we had one foot in the future, and yet one foot firmly in the past. If only we could be there again.

I first saw the movie Tammy And The Bachelor on the classic movie channel AMC and I loved it! It is a delightful movie about a backwoods country girl named Tammy played by Debbie Reynolds who goes to stay with a wealthy family after her grandpa who is her legal guardian gets in trouble when he is caught making moonshine and she falls in love with the son of the family who is named Pete and played by Leslie Nielsen. Yes this is the same Leslie Nlelsen from The Airplane and Naked Gun comedy movies and he was very good in this movie and so is Debbie Reynolds as Tammy. I wish they would put this delightful movie on DVD!

TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR IS ONE OF THE BEST DEBBIE REYNOLDS MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED. HER SINGING IS WONDERFUL AND IF SOMEONE SAYS IT'S A CORN BALL ROMANCE MOVIE MUST BE A GUY US WOMEN WOULD LOVE IT.

I WATCHED THIS MOVIE WITH MY MOM A FEW YEARS AGO.. AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE AN OLDER MOVIE.. BUT THIS ONE IS SO GOOD THAT I WILL WATCH IT ANY NIGHT OF THE WEEK! DON'T BE AFRAID TO BUY THE VIDEO.. YOU WON'T BE RETURNING IT UNLESS YOU JUST DON'T LIKE ROMANTIC MOVIES. I RECOMMEND IT! AND DON'T FORGET TO GRAB THE BOWL OF MUNCHIES TOO!

I can't believe Universal havent given this classic a DVD release date yet.

The music and the story were both quite memorable. What a sweet theme and setting. Certainly a family-friendly movie although it is a romance so more of a girl-friendly show. I LOVED it!!!