My Girl Tisa (1948)
My Girl Tisa is a Sweetheart of a Picture
95 min
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
- Release date
- February 7, 1948
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Max Steiner
Cast
- Lilli Palmer as Tisa Kepes
- Sam Wanamaker as Mark Denek
- Akim Tamiroff as Mr. Grumbach
- Alan Hale as Dugan
- Hugo Haas as Tescu
- Gale Robbins as Jenny Kepes
- Stella Adler as Mrs. Faludi
- Benny Baker as Herman
- Sumner Getchell as Georgie
- Sid Tomack as BinkaBinka
Crew
- Elliott Nugent · Director
- Lucille S. Prumbs · Writer
- Sara B. Smith · Writer
- Allen Boretz · Writer
- Milton Sperling · Producer
- Max Steiner · Composer
- Ernest Haller · Cinematographer
- Christian Nyby · Editor