Tammy Tell Me True (1961)

Deciding to improve herself, a country girl (Sandra Dee) goes to a small college. While she finds it difficult to fit in with the rest of the student body, a handsome professor (John Gavin) and an elderly woman (Beulah Bondi) give her confidence. Based on the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner and directed by Harry Keller (QUANTEZ). Sandra Dee takes over from Debbie Reynolds in the second of the three theatrical TAMMY movies. Dee isn't as comfortable in the role as Reynolds was as if she realized she wasn't convincing playing "country". The plot is threadbare with the most interesting aspect of the movie being the Beulah Bondi story line: an elderly woman confined by both her wealth, her bitterness and her money grubbing niece (Julia Meade) who finds a new lease on life living on a riverboat on the bayou. As the love interest, Gavin is as wooden as ever. He can't even laugh convincingly. With Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Gigi Perreau, Stefanie Powers, Cecil Kellaway, Juanita Moore, Edgar Buchanan and Hayden Rorke.