Tammy (film series)

For the 2014 film, see Tammy (film).

The Tammy films are a series of four American romantic comedy films about a young woman from rural Mississippi. They were produced by Universal Pictures between 1957 and 1967 and based on the character created in Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1948 book Tammy Out of Time.

The main character of the first three films, Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, is a kind and friendly country girl who finds romantic love. Tammy's rustic southern dialect reflects her rural upbringing and belies her status as an outsider in modern culture. In the original novel, Tammy Out of Time, Professor Brent discovers that Tammy uses expressions dating back to Chaucer and vocabulary from the Elizabethan era "as is true of some of the mountain folk of Kentucky and Tennessee."

Tammy and the Bachelor was the basis for the television sitcom Tammy (1965–1966). In the series, Tammy's last name was Tarleton, and she lives on a houseboat with her grandfather and uncle but finds work as the secretary of wealthy Mr. Brent. Four episodes of Tammy were reedited into the last Tammy movie, Tammy and the Millionaire.

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