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.

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