Summary:
Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play -Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New York at the turn of the century. Tisa Kepes (Lilli Palmer) is a newly arrived immigrant girl who hopes to bring her father to America. She is fleeced by travel-agent Hugo Haas, browbeaten by sweatshop-owner Akim Tamiroff, and offered sagacio... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Lilli Palmer - (Tisa Kepes)
Sam Wanamaker - (Mark Denek)
Akim Tamiroff - (Mr. Grumbach)
Hugo Haas - (Tescu)
Gale Robbins - (Jenny Kepes)
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Review:
My Girl Tisa is a perfectly nice little film that is certainly enjoyable, yet just as certainly a bit disappointing. Not a great many films of the period are concerned with the immigrant experience in America, and this is what Tisa is all about. But this is also where the disappointment come sin, for while Tisa hits all the basics -- Ellis... Continue >>
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