Tammy Lee Grimes was an American film and stage actress.
28 Facts About Tammy Grimes
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Tammy Grimes originated the role of Diana in the Broadway production of California Suite.
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Tammy Grimes played the role of Elmire in the 1978 Broadway and television production of Tartuffe.
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Tammy Grimes was born on January 30,1934, in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eola Willard, a naturalist and spiritualist, and Luther Nichols Tammy Grimes, an innkeeper, country-club manager, and farmer.
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Tammy Grimes attended high school at a then all-girls school, Beaver Country Day School, and then Stephens College.
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Tammy Grimes studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse.
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Tammy Grimes made her Broadway stage debut as an understudy for Kim Stanley in the starring role in Bus Stop in June 1955.
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Tammy Grimes starred in the 1960 musical comedy The Unsinkable Molly Brown for which she won a Tony Award for what The New York Times called her "buoyant" performance as a rough-hewn Colorado social climber.
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Tammy Grimes portrayed the title character, a Western mining millionairess who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
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Tammy Grimes made two appearances on the early '60s TV series Route 66.
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On May 16,1960, Tammy Grimes acted and sang as Mehitabel in an abridged version of the musical Archy and Mehitabel as part of the syndicated TV anthology series Play of the Week presented by David Susskind, and co-written by Mel Brooks and Joe Darion.
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Tammy Grimes appeared in the television drama Route 66 on December 13,1963, in an episode titled "Come Home Greta Inger Gruenschaffen".
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In 1966, Grimes starred in her own ABC television series, The Tammy Grimes Show, in which she played a modern-day heiress who loved to spend money.
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Tammy Grimes plays every cheap trick in the histrionic book with supreme aplomb and adorable confidence.
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Tammy Grimes is all campy, impossible woman, a lovable phony with the hint of tigress about her, so ridiculously artificial that she just has to be for real.
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Tammy Grimes was a member of the Stratford Festival of Canada acting company in 1956, and returned again in 1982 to appear as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit.
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Tammy Grimes recited poetry as part of a 1968 solo act in the Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel.
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In 1983, Tammy Grimes was dismissed from her co-starring role in the Neil Simon play Actors and Actresses, reportedly due to an inability to learn her lines.
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In 2003, Tammy Grimes was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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In December 2003, Tammy Grimes was invited by the Noel Coward Society to be the first celebrity to lay flowers on the statue of Sir Noel Coward at the Gershwin Theatre in Manhattan to celebrate the 104th birthday of "The Master".
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In 2005, Tammy Grimes worked with director Brandon Jameson to voice UNICEF's multiple award-winning tribute to Sesame Workshop.
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Tammy Grimes married Christopher Plummer on August 16,1956, with whom she had a daughter, actress Amanda Plummer.
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In 1965, Tammy Grimes made headlines after she had been beaten and injured twice in four days in New York City, by what were described as "white racists".
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Tammy Grimes died on October 30,2016, in Englewood, New Jersey, aged 82 from natural causes.
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Tammy Grimes's survivors include her brother Nick and her daughter Amanda.
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Tammy Grimes released three known one-off singles during the 1960s, none of which charted:.
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Tammy Grimes is featured on the following original cast recordings: The Littlest Revue, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, High Spirits, 42nd Street, and Sunset, as well as a TV cast album of the televised version of George M Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway.
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Tammy Grimes did the introductory narration for the American rebroadcast of the BBC's 1981 radio production of The Lord of the Rings.