Gracious Living Playbill, Westport Country Playhouse, July 3-8, 1978

TAMMY GRIMES (Victoria Blunt) has starred in the following New York productions: Clerambard 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 Dyer, High Spirits by Noel Coward with music by Hugh Martin, lyrics by Timothy Grey, The Only Game in Town by Frank D. Gilroy, Private Lewis by Noel Coward (for which she won a Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actress), Gabrielle, 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, Elmire in Moliere's Tartuffe, translated by Richard Wilber, directed by Stephen Porter at the Circle in the Square and for Public Television (Channel 13) Theatre in America series. Off-Broadway Miss Grimes appeared as Molly in Molly by Simon Gray, directed by Stephen Hollis at the 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 Theatre, and Kate in Taming of the Shrew for 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 Hallmark Hall of Fame's The Borrowers, a program based on the Mary Norton novels 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, Where the Wild Things Are, etc. Her nightclub appearances include Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, the Plaza and Upstairs at the Downstairs, both in New York. Tammy Grimes made her film debut co-starring 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 and Somebody Killed Her Husband, directed by Lamont Johnson.

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