Word: tina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TINA CANNON...
Hollywood's Major Joppolo is a likable young man named John Hodiak whose earnest performance suffers mainly from its inevitable comparison with the expert underplaying of Actor March. The girl Tina (Gene Tierney), whose role is no clearer nor any more necessary in the picture than it is in the play, is a remarkably clean-looking girl who has apparently cornered all of war-ravaged Italy's remaining soap, and who tries to give an illusion of foreignness by talking very slowly...
...Deal. In Denver, a corporal hunted high & low for a house for himself, wife, and small son, heard of a vacancy for a family with two children, bargained, "We'll take it. If he insists on two kids, we'll have another." Hideout. In Jacksonville, Tina Irene Mazzarrella, missing for two years since she threatened to run away and join the WAC, finally wrote home, explained how she had crossed up her pursuers: she had enlisted in the WAVES...
...visible antagonist. Squeezing the whole life of the Sicilian town into Joppolo's office also carries penalties: some things have to be told about rather than shown; so many characters are involved that the many short scenes become jerky at times; and the role of the girl Tina (Margo) is both poorly defined and clumsily thrust into the business atmosphere of Joppolo's office...
Claude Rains's brainside manner may well fill noncinematic neuropaths with a profound sense of insecurity. As Charlotte, Bette Davis is recognizably neurasthenic. Little Janis Wilson deserves special handling after her tender debut as Tina. By using a simple unfamiliar formula the Austrian newcomer, Paul Henreid (Night Train), makes himself one of Hollywood's likeliest leading men. His formula: When he is in a tough emotional spot he acts like a kind and morally responsible human being...