"Tammy Tell Me True" (1961)
- Comedy, USA, 1961, runtime 97 minutes
- After the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner
- Screenplay: Oscar Brodney
- Cinematography: Clifford Stine
- Original music: Percy Faith
- Song "Tammy Tell Me True" by Dorothy Squires
- Producer: Ross Hunter
- Director: Harry Keller
- Studio: Universal International
Major Cast:
Sandra Dee: Tammy Tyree
John Gavin: Thomas Freeman
Beulah Bondi: Mrs. Call
Virginia Grey: Miss Jenks
Charles Drake: Buford Woodly
Julia Meade: Suzanne Rook
Cecil Kellaway: Captain Joe
Edgar Buchanan: Judge Carver
Gigi Perreau: Rita
Juanita Moore: Della
Hayden Rorke: Joshua Welling
Henry Corden: Captain Armand
The Story:
While
Tammy Tyree's grandfather is in prison (for the making and selling of
corn liquor), Tammy lives with her friend Pete's folks.
When Pete goes to an agricultural college, he never writes.
Tammy reckons, that he compared her with "them college type girls", and
that she came up short. Tammy realizes, that she is just an unlearnt
shanty boat girl from the Mississippi. Thus she decides to take her goat Nan,
return to the shanty boat, the Ellen B, pull it downstream and go to
Seminola college, so that when Pete comes home, he'll find her not
only to be
"a woman fully growed", but also "ladyfied, proper learnt,
and proper spoken".
" You know what Nan? You and me are goin' to college!!"
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