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

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)

References




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