{"id":8099,"date":"2012-10-15T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2013-11-16T22:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T03:03:22","slug":"tammy-and-the-bachelor-1957-joseph-pevney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8099","title":{"rendered":"Tammy and the Bachelor (1957, Joseph Pevney)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy had a powerful hankering to watch this after we heard the main song in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1533\">The Long Day Closes<\/a><\/em>.  Tammy (Debbie Reynolds, a few years after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1915\">Susan Slept Here<\/a><\/em>) is a young girl living on a houseboat with granpappy Walter Brennan (two years before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1677\">Rio Bravo<\/a><\/em>, already quite Stumpy-like).  They help a wounded traveler (hunky Leslie Nielsen, only looking like Lt. Drebin occasionally from certain angles) and when Brennan goes to jail for moonshinin&#8217;, Tammy goes to stay with the rich city-dwelling Nielsen.  Lovesick hijinks ensue.<\/p>\n<p>The great Fay Wray plays Nielsen&#8217;s mom, I think, and he has an aunt (Rosemary Clooney-looking Mildred Natwick) who&#8217;s a painter, or ex-painter or something.  Tammy inspires them all with her country simplicity.  Pevney later directed a chunk of the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> episodes, and Sandra Dee took over as Tammy in the sequels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy had a powerful hankering to watch this after we heard the main song in The Long Day Closes. Tammy (Debbie Reynolds, a few years after Susan Slept Here) is a young girl living on a houseboat with granpappy Walter Brennan (two years before Rio Bravo, already quite Stumpy-like). They help a wounded traveler (hunky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,835,793],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-debbie-reynolds","tag-walter-brennan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}