People named Tammy Grimes

Tammy Lee Grimes was born on January 30, 1934 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts United States. She married Arthur Christopher Orme-Plummer on August 19, 1956 in New York City, New York County, New York and they later divorced on September 2, 1960 in New York City. They had a child Amanda Michael Plummer. She would also marry Richard Jameson Bell Jr. in 1971 in New York City, New York County, and they were married until Richard's death on September 28, 2005 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Tammy Grimes died at age 82 years old on October 31, 2016 in Englewood, Bergen County, NJ, and was buried on November 6, 2016 at Great Hill Cemetery Sandown Rd, in Chester, Rockingham County, NH. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Tammy Lee Grimes.

Tammy Grimes, Star of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Dies at 82 BY ROBERT VIAGAS OCT 31, 2016 A favorite of Noël Coward's, she starred in his musical High Spirits. Tammy Grimes, star of the Broadway musicals The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and High Spirits, died October 30 at age 82, according to The New York Times. Grimes appeared in more than a dozen Broadway shows. Born in Lynn, MA, on January 30, 1934, she had a distinctive voice that lent itself to a variety of accents she sported throughout her career. She made her Broadway debut in Ben Bagley’s short-lived 1956 musical comedy sketch revue The Littlest Revue, which introduced songs by a gallery of future songwriting stars including Charles Strouse, Sheldon Harnick, and Lee Adams. She was working in one of Julius Monk’s Upstairs at the Downstairs revues when she was spotted by Noël Coward, who cast her in his comedy Look After Lulu, which had a short run, but proved the beginning of a long artistic collaboration between the two that led to plays, a musical, and one of her two Tony Awards. Harve Presnell and Tammy Grimes in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Though not particularly well-known in 1960, she was chosen to star in the title role of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, written by Meredith Willson in his first musical since his blockbuster The Music Man. Molly Brown tells the story of a penniless country girl from Colorado who dreams of conquering high society. The dream almost costs her her life when she books passage aboard the Titanic, and acquires her nickname performing heroics in one of the lifeboats. Grimes won the 1961 Tony Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performances as Molly Brown, but had the misfortune watch as her great role was nabbed by Debbie Reynolds when it came time to make the film version of the musical. She won her second Tony in 1970, as Best Actress in a Play, for her performance as Amanda in a revival of Coward’s Private Lives. Grimes bounced back in 1964, starring as the sexy ghost Elvira in the musical adaptation of Coward’s Blithe Spirit, titled High Spirits, opposite Beatrice Lillie. According to her Playbill Who’s Who, Grimes is remembered for “stopping the show nightly with her rendition of ‘Home Sweet Heaven,’ sung while flying thirty feet through the air with the help of an invisible harness.” Later in her career she starred in Neil Simon’s 1976 play California Suite, and played the grand dame Dorothy Brock in David Merrick’s original Broadway production of 42nd Street in 1980. Grimes did not make a major splash in films, but appeared on many dramatic and variety programs (she reportedly turned down the leading role in the sitcom Bewitched), eventually starring in her own ABC-TV series, The Tammy Grimes Show. Grimes was part of a family of showbiz stars. She was married to Tony-winning actor Christopher Plummer from 1956 to 1960, and is the mother of Tony-winning actress Amanda Plummer.