Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy films. It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent. It was adapted from the book Tammy Out of Time by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree is a seventeen-year-old girl living in a houseboat in Mississippi with her Grandpa, John Dinwitty . She runs around barefoot, dreaming of life outside of the swamp, and talking to her best friend, Nan, a goat. One day in the swamp, Tammy discovers the wreckage of a plane and the... unconscious body of Peter Brent . Tammy and her grandfather help Peter recover at their home, during which Tammy falls in love with Peter. However, he must return to his own home, but tells Tammy that if anything happened to her grandfather, she would be welcome to come and stay with him. Several weeks later, Tammy's grandfather is arrested for making moonshine. With no one else to stay with, Tammy sets off for Brentwood Hall. She arrives during a dance rehearsal and sees Peter with his friends.
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| Release date: | June 14, 1957 |
| Directed by: | Joseph Pevney |
| Runtime: | 89 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ross Hunter |
| Music by: | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Frank Skinner |
| Cinematography: | Arthur E. Arling |
| Genre: | Comedy |