![]() She looked her best in a duo of peplums she made in the late 1950s at Cinecitta. ![]() She was polite enough but it was a momentary exchange and she wasn’t there to meet me.Īs far as her fabled beauty, I concur. ![]() My friend treated her like a cross between a fawn and the Queen of England. I met her when she was about 60 and my friend was her manager/publicist. She had developed charisma…and physically she was a magnet-you really could not take your eyes off her when she was in a scene. I think she did develop into a good enough actress after Gilligan and I always found myself more interested in something when she was in it. ![]() Robinson in The Graduate had it not been for Sherwood Schwartz.Īfter GI, she developed that glossy/coltish artificial look that she maintained for many years and she did some of her best work in B movies like The Stepford Wives and Nightmare in Badham County as well as juicy supporting roles in numerous TV movies (she played “Kitty Genovese’s” lesbian lover in Death Scream) and, of course Julie, JR’s doomed secretary, on Dallas. I believe she truly convinced herself she would have read for roles like Mrs. Instead, Ginger Grant became a pop culture legend and Tina Louis had a daughter. She was 30+ when GI ended and without GI she likely would have taken crappier roles in crappier movies and done a slow fade out. She really did believe GI ruined her career as a dramatic actress in motion pictures which is absurd. She was not happy then about needing to do television…and taking the sloppy seconds of the caricature-like Mansfield. Then, lest we forget, she was offered GI after Jayne Mansfield had turned it down. She never had much of a spark and average filmgoers could easily confuse her with the similarly styled and (ironically) more emotive Suzy Parker. Aside from her heaving bosom, Tina was far too low energy and her diction was oddly flat.įorgettable films followed. But Tina was wooden in the lead and Fay Spain stole the show. The production got a lot of buzz because the story was sordid and filled with eccentric characters. Much fanfare was made about Caldwell’s novel, God’s Little Acre. To a degree, she had the C-list version of Marilyn Monroe’s early trajectory: from cheesecake photos in “photography enthusiast” publications to Broadway window dressing to Hollywood starlet to “I want to do Dostoyevsky.” Of course MM did not have the Broadway experience and Tina went from starlet to Bs to supporting. R39 Tina was always very full of herself and considered herself a method actor. I figured she'd land a rich husband and lay around all day. I was shocked when I read what Caprice went on to do. I would up resigning because I couldn't go through another semester of teaching a group of kids who clearly didn't want to be there. Caprice came up and I detailed how awful and useless she was, and the head of the dept said, "That sounds like a C to me." I said, "I have another, more appropriate letter for her." But nope, C it was. When it came time at the end of the semester to give grades, I was in a room with all the other instructors in the department discussing our students with the head of the dept. She was lazy, spoiled, entitled and dumb as a box of hair. I was given five interns to teach radio production to, and Caprice was the worst. I ran a weekly radio drama show on the NYU station called Headphone Theater that I had been writing and producing for during my sophomore and junior years and was given the reins to in my final year. Her daughter Caprice was a student of mine at NYU when I was a TA in my senior year in the radio department.
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