Tina Carver

Tina Carver
Born
Bertenia June Brown

(1923-11-02)November 2, 1923[1]
Salina, Kansas[3][4]
DiedFebruary 18, 1982(1982-02-18) (aged 58)[1][2]
Edmonds, Washington, U.S.[1]
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active1954-1960
Spouses
  • M. M. Dickason
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1940; div. 1945)​
    [5]
    Thomas H. Carver
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1947; div. 1956)​
    [6][7]
Children2

Tina Carver (November 2, 1923 – February 18, 1982) was an American film actress and model active in the 1950s.[8]

Early life

The daughter of Herbert Weir Brown[1][9] and Opha Estelle Cox,[1] Tina Carver was born with the name Bertenia June Brown[1][2][9] on November 2, 1923[1] in Salina, Kansas.[3][4] Her first marriage was to a Mr. M. M. Dickason[5] with whom she had two sons, Robert and Charles.[10] That marriage ended in divorce in December 1945.[5]

Tina originally trained to be a musician and worked as a pianist in Texas.[11] In 1946 she was enrolled at the University of Houston and starred in a student production of Karel Čapek's R.U.R.; performing under the name Tina Dickason.[12] It was reported in The Houston Chronicle in December 1947 that she was living in Germany and had recently married a second time to Tom Carver who was employed in the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories in Berlin.[6] They married in the autumn of 1947.[10] The couple separated in November 1952 around the time their daughter Victoria was born, and later filed for divorced in October 1955.[13] Their divorce was finalized in January 1956.[7] At the time of their divorce Tom Carver was a professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.[7]

Career

Carver began her acting career in Europe in the early 1950s, performing in theaters in Paris and Berlin.[14] In 1953 she portrayed the vicar's wife, Penelope Toop, in Philip King's See How They Run at the Playhouse Theatre in Houston,[15] and the part of nurse Ruth Kelly in Mary Chase's Harvey in a production in La Puente, California.[16]

By 1954 Carver was under contract with Columbia Pictures.[17] She guest starred in October of that year on an episode of Big Town,[18] and performed opposite Alan Ladd as his love interest in the episode "Committed" on General Electric Theater in December 1954; the latter of which was hosted by Ronald Reagan.[19] She also starred opposite John Ireland in a 1954 episode of The Whistler.[20]

Later life

In her later life Carver lived in Seattle, Washington where she worked as a realtor.[1] She died at Stevens Memorial Hospital in Edmonds, Washington on February 18, 1982 from pneumonitis related to small-cell carcinoma.[1] Her body was cremated and then transported to Texas for interment at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston.[2]

Filmography

Feature films

TV shows

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Tina J. Carver in the Washington, U.S., Death Records, 1907-2017, State File No. 2 04061, Local File Number 335
  2. ^ a b c "Death Notices: Mrs. Bertenia June Brown-Carver". The Houston Post. February 24, 1982. p. 18C.
  3. ^ a b Bertenia J Brown in the Kansas, U.S., State Census Collection, 1855-1925, 1925 Saline, Salina
  4. ^ a b Bertenia J Brown in the 1930 United States Federal Census, Arkansas Pulaski, Little Rock, District 0028
  5. ^ a b c "Local Court". The Houston Chronicle. December 20, 1945. p. 4.
  6. ^ a b "Boys, 5 and 3, To Fly to Germany to Rejoin Mother". The Houston Chronicle. December 19, 1947. p. 30A.
  7. ^ a b c "Actress Tina Carver Divorces Professor". Washington Evening Star. January 14, 1956. p. B9.
  8. ^ "Tina Carver - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  9. ^ a b Stockard, Mildred (April 11, 1956). "Pair of Melodramas Showing at Delman". The Houston Chronicle. p. 40.
  10. ^ a b "Youngsters Fly to Europe". The Houston Post. December 19, 1947. p. 1.
  11. ^ "King Farce Next at Playhouse". The Houston Post. September 23, 1953. p. 25.
  12. ^ "Two Performances of R.U.R. Slated By Houston U. Unit". The Houston Chronicle. November 24, 1946. p. 17D.
  13. ^ "Actress Receives Default Divorce". Valley Times. October 28, 1955. p. 2.
  14. ^ "Houston Actress Doing Summer Stock in Paris". The Houston Post. July 17, 1951. p. 13.
  15. ^ "See How They Run Gives Playhouse Audiences Big Laughs". The Houston Chronicle. October 1, 1953. p. D2.
  16. ^ "This and That". The Houston Chronicle. November 6, 1953. p. D9.
  17. ^ Gorman, Gilbert (June 27, 1954). "Between the Lines". The Houston Chronicle. p. 2, section Feature Magazine.
  18. ^ "What's On Air". The Zanesville Signal. October 20, 1954. p. 6.
  19. ^ "Tele-Views". The Capital Journal. December 3, 1954. p. 15.
  20. ^ Abbe, James (December 29, 1954). "Abbe Airs It". Oakland Tribune. p. 16.
  21. ^ Blottner, Gene (September 30, 2011). Wild Bill Elliott: A Complete Filmography. McFarland. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-7864-6903-1. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  22. ^ Craig, Rob (September 21, 2013). It Came from 1957: A Critical Guide to the Year's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4766-1243-0. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  23. ^ Blum, Daniel (1958). Screen World: 1958. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8196-0264-0. Retrieved October 7, 2022. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  • Tina Carver at IMDb
  • Tina Carver at the TCM Movie Database
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