Review for Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and Grandpa see a plane crash near their Mississippi home. They rescue the unconscious survivor, take care of him and restore him to health. When the authorities arrest Grandpa for bootlegging, it forces Tammy to leave her riverside shack. She goes to stay with the survivor and his affluent family in luxurious new surroundings. Will Tammy feel at home in high society and will she cope with the first stirrings of love?


Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy about a country bumpkin called Tammy who uproots and goes to live in a well-to-do middle-class environment. The comedy comes from stark cultural differences - Tammy does not understand the rules of so-called 'cultured society' and fumbles around with naïve innocence. The romance comes from her burgeoning relationship with Peter (your typical 'opposites attract' storyline). It stars Debbie Reynolds (as Tammy), Walter Brennan (as Grandpa) and Leslie Nielsen (as Peter).


This is a perfect relationship movie. The type you can snuggle together and watch on BBC2 or FilmFour when you are sick of arguing on the sofa while watching those home improvement programmes and those darn trashy Jerry Springer type shows. Tammy and the Bachelor is a cute little 'fish-out-of-water' film from the 50s. It is innocent, sweet, beautiful and heart-warming. It is similar to Douglas Sirk. Nielsen and Reynolds have a real chemistry that dances on screen. The director Joseph Pevney also went on to become a prolific director of the original Star Trek series.


The film was adapted from the novel Tammy Out Of Time by Cid Ricketts Sumner. There are also three sequels to the film that sound like porn movies: Tammy Tell Me True (1961), Tammy and the Doctor (1963) and Tammy and the Millionaire (1967).

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