Tammy and the Doctor | |
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Directed by | Harry Keller |
Written by | Oscar Brodney |
Produced by | Ross Hunter |
Starring | Sandra Dee Peter Fonda Macdonald Carey |
Cinematography | Russell Metty |
Edited by | Milton Carruth |
Music by | Frank Skinner |
Production company | Ross Hunter Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,000,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
Tammy and the Doctor is a 1963Eastmancolor romanticcomedy film directed byHarry Keller and starringSandra Dee as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree andPeter Fonda (in his film debut) as Dr. Mark Cheswick.[2][3] It is the third of the fourTammy films.
Mrs. Call requires surgery in Los Angeles and is accompanied there by her young companion Tammy, a country girl from Mississippi, who later lands a job with the hospital staff. Tammy is attracted to handsome Dr. Mark Cheswick, whose superior, Dr. Bentley, and head nurse Rachel Coleman aren't sure that romance is a good idea.
The film was announced in December 1961 asTammy Takes Over'. Dee made it after another film for Hunter,If a Man Answers.[4]
Ross Hunter liked to develop new talent and the movie features 23 actors who had never made a film before.[5] Among them was Peter Fonda, who had enjoyed critical acclaim for his performance inBlood, Sweat and Stanley Poole. Hunter signed Peter Fonda to a seven years contract.[6]Filmink magazine argued Fonda at this stage of his career was "a sort of poor man’s James Stewart – tall, gangly, boy next door, virginal looks, etc. (And Stewart was, famously, best friends with Fonda’s father, Henry)."[7]
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