A Month in the Country Playbill Biography, January, 1980
TAMMY GRIMES (Natalya) has starred in the following New York productions: Clemenbard
by Marcel Aimee; The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; the role of
Cherie in Bus Stop by William Inge, Look After Lulu by Feydeau, adapted
by Noel Coward; The Littlest Revue; The Unsinkable Molly Brown by Meredith
Wilson and Richard Morris (for which she won the Tony award for best Musical Comedy
Actress); Rattle of a Simple Man by Charles Ddyer; High Spirits by
Noel Coward with music by Hugh Martin, lyrics by Timothy Grey; The Only Game in
Town by Frank D. Gilroy; Private Lives by Noel Coward (for which she won
a Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actress); Gabrille, a musical by Gilbert Becaud
with book by Jose Quintero; A Musical Jubilee; the parts of Hanna, Diana and
Gert in Neil Simon's California Suite; and Elmire in Moliere's Tartuffe,
translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Stephen Porter at the Circle in the
Square. Off-Broadway Miss Grimes appeared as Molly in Molly by simon Gray,
directed by Stephen Hollis at he Hudson Guild Theatre.
She appeared in the following
Shakespearean roles: Mistress Quickly in Henry IV, Part I; and Mopsa in The
Winter's Tale, both at Stratford, Ontario; Maria in Twelth Night at the
Cambridge Festival Theater, and Kate in Taming of the Shrew for the Philadelphia
Drama Guild. She also played Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere
at the Philadelphia Drama Guild. She started in the National Company of The Lark
by Jean Anouilh.
Miss Grimes has appeared in virtually all the major TV variety
and dramatic programs, the latest being You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas
Wolfe, and starred in her own ABC television series. She has recorded two albums
for Columbia Records, Tammy Grimes and The Unsinkable Tammy Grimes, as
well as the cast albums of High Spirits and The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
She has made a number of albums for Caedmon Records, including A.A. Milne's The
Rabbit series and all Maurice Sendak's works; Higglety-Pigglety-Pop, Kenny's
Window and Where The Wild Things Are, and William Faulkner's Wash and
A Rose for Emily.
Tammy Grimes made her film debut costarring with David
McCallum in Three Bites of the Apple; followed by Arthur, Arthur; Play
It As It Lays by Joan Didion, directed by Frank Perry; Somebody Killed Her
Husband, directed by Lamont Johnson; and The Runner Stumbles, directed
by Stanley Kramer. Miss Grimes recently completed a successful engagement in Father's
Day at the American Place Theatre; and will soon complete filming Allan Carr's
motion picture Can't Stop the Music.
The article is accompanied by
a full page cover black and white photo of Tammy with half-closed eyes, wearing a
dress as Natalya in A Month in the Country.