Leslie Nielson as some may know just past away and while the US media was only mentioning his later comedy movies, one movie that was pivotal in launching his career; seemed to fail to be mentioned. Tammy and the Bachelor was not so much a comedy, but an adventitious love story between a seventeen year-old girls first love. She was a girl played by Debbie Reynolds as Tammy, living on a Mississippi River boat in Louisiana with her Grandfather who was played by the late Walter Brennan; who saved a young man from a Plantation played by Leslie Nielson as Pete; from a Mississippi whirlpool after his plane crashed.
Where later by unforeseen circumstance concerning her grandfather and the US government revenuers, Tammy for a time has to walk to the next county with her pet goat; where at the Plantation she is to live with Pete's family, especially focal outgoing Bohemian grandmother who would rather live in New Orleans and the new world she encounters after the isolated life on the river and the love that ensues.
Which as the story comes to a close, it is left with the impression the girl did marry the boy.
This movie, Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) while it is so fondly remembered not just as a wholesome love story and a movie classic, it launched not just Nielson's career; but at the time the title song was a hit for a number of years and movie sequels that was not quite as true to the original story did launch another young women's career, one Sandra Dee.
Family movies such as this, is what people should be remember by; not movies that some parents refused to allow there children to see due to questionable adult situations.
As for myself, Tammy and the Bachelor always brought to mind thoughts of my first love and who could ever forget, Tammy and Pete.
Now as far as me living remotely in the area where the movie took place many years later, is just one of those unusual coincidences that happens sometimes to a person and as I sat back thinking about it; I just chuckle. -HRM Deborah
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