Photo: The late Hollywood actress Sandra Dee, while in Rome studying at the Angelicum.Ms. Dee's breakout role in movies had been playing the title role of "Gidget" and "Tammy" in "Tammy And The Doctor" - a role she beat out Debbie Reynolds for. She was one of the first women ever to study at the Angelicum in Rome. Afterwards, returning to Hollywood she starred with Troy Donahue in the sizzler, "A Summer Place".
In an early 1970's interview with Barbara Walters, Ms. Dee was asked why she took time out from her film career to study at the Angelicum. Sandra Dee stated, "I wanted to be taken seriously by priests."
In her memory I reprint here the complicated lyrics from "Tammy" - the movie's theme song:
I hear the cottonwoods whisp'rin' above
Tammy! Tammy! Tammy's in love!
The ole hootie owl hootie-hoo's to the dove
Tammy! Tammy! Tammy's in love!
Does my darling feel what I feel
When he comes near?
My heart beats so joyfully
You'd think that he could hear!
Wish I knew if he knew what I'm dreaming of!
Tammy! Tammy! Tammy's in love!
Popular music from the 1950's was so intense!
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