Tammy Grimes

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Tammy Grimes (born January 30, 1934) is an award-winning actress and singer.

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, she attended high school at the then-all girls school, Beaver Country Day School, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She attended Stephens College in Missouri, and then studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse. Grimes made her debut on the New York stage in May of 1955 in Jonah and the Whale. In 1956, she appeared in the off-Broadway production, The Littlest Revue , and had the lead role in the 1959 Noel Coward play Look After Lulu.

She starred in the 1960 musical comedy The Unsinkable Molly Brown for which she won a Tony Award.

In 1966, Grimes starred in her own television show, The Tammy Grimes Show, as a present-day character based on Molly Brown, but it ran for only a month, although an additional six episodes had already been made; ironically, she had turned down the part of "Samantha" on Bewitched for which she had had right of first refusal.

During her career, she spent several seasons at the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario and has appeared in a number of television series and motion pictures. Grimes has also entertained at various New York city night clubs and recorded several albums of songs. Her voice can be heard in romantic duets on some of Ben Bagley's anthology albums of Broadway songs under his Painted Smiles record label. In 1982, she hosted the final season CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Tammy Grimes was inducted into the (American) Theater Hall of Fame in 2003.

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[edit] Personal

Grimes married Canadian actor Christopher Plummer in 1956, with whom she had a daughter, actress Amanda Plummer. They were divorced in 1960. She was married briefly to the actor Jeremy Slate.

Active in American politics, she is a member of the Republican Party.

[edit] Awards

  • Theatre World Award - Look After Lulu (1959)
  • Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1961)
  • Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play - Private Lives (1970)
Preceded by
Patricia Neway
for The Sound of Music		 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
1961
for The Unsinkable Molly Brown		 Succeeded by
Phyllis Newman
for Subways are for Sleeping

[edit] Broadway plays

[edit] Filmography (partial)

[edit] Discography

Grimes released three known one-off singles during the 1960's, none of which charted:

  • "Home Sweet Heaven"/"You'd Better Love Me" (ABC 10551) 1964, from High Spirits
  • "The Big Hurt"/"Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do" (Reprise 0487) 1966
  • "I Really Loved Harold"/"Father O'Conner" (Buddah 99) 1969

She recorded two albums in the early 1960's, which were re-released in one album in 2004,Unmistakable.

[edit] External links

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