Claim: Debbie Reynolds acted.

Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy films . It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey `` Tammy '' Tyree , Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent . It was adapted from the 1948 novel Tammy Out of Time by Cid Ricketts Sumner .