My Girl Tisa

My Girl Tisa
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Elliott Nugent
Written by	Allen Boretz
Based on	Ever the Beginning; by Lucille S. Prumbs and Sara B. Smith
Starring	Lilli Palmer; Sam Wanamaker
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Edited by	Christian Nyby
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	February 7, 1948;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

My Girl Tisa is a 1948 film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Lilli Palmer and Sam Wanamaker.[1] It is based on the play Ever the Beginning by Lucille S. Prumbs and Sara B. Smith (copyrighted 14 May 1946).[2]

Plot

In 1905, Tisa Kepes is an immigrant who is living in a New York City boarding house and struggling to make ends meet, making very little money working for a Mr. Grumbach in the garment district. An aspiring lawyer, Mark Denek, also is a boarder there, dreaming of someday meeting his idol, President Teddy Roosevelt.

Tisa is trying to earn enough to pay for her father's boat passage so he can join her in America. In an attempt to assist her, Mark loses his job with a politician, Dugan, is double-crossed by a ship captain named Tescu who intends to make Tisa's father work for him, then ends up getting Tisa slated for deportation. In love with Tisa and desperate, Mark has a chance encounter with Roosevelt, who intervenes at the last instant on their behalf.

Cast

Lilli Palmer as Tisa Kepes
Sam Wanamaker as Mark Denek
Akim Tamiroff as Mr. Grumbach
Alan Hale, Sr. as Dugan
Hugo Haas as Tescu
Gale Robbins as Jenny Kepes
John Qualen as Svenson
Sidney Blackmer as Theodore Roosevelt
Fritz Feld as Prof. Tabor
John Banner as Otto
Hobart Cavanaugh as Sigmund (uncredited)
Charles Middleton as Examiner (uncredited)
Ivan F. Simpson as Old Man (uncredited)
Jack Mower as Postman (uncredited)

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References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2011-06-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"My Girl Tisa". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 11 January 2016.

External links

My Girl Tisa on IMDb
My Girl Tisa at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2011-06-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "My Girl Tisa". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 11 January 2016.