Valerie's husband (maternal first cousin once removed-in-law) Marie (maternal first cousin once removed) Valerie (maternal first cousin once removed) Ronnie (maternal first cousin once removed) Vanessa (paternal first cousin once removed) Julia Volpintesta † (maternal great-grandaunt-in-law)ĭaniela Volpintesta † (maternal great-grandaunt-in-law) Paulina Volpintesta † (maternal great-grandaunt) Joey Volpintesta † (maternal great-granduncle) Tony Volpintesta † (maternal great-granduncle) Gustavo Volpintesta † (maternal great-great-grandfather) Maria Volpintesta † (maternal great-great-grandmother) Gertie † (paternal great-great-grandmother) Tricycle girl & Little Trikey Me-No-Likey (by Alice)īilly Lombard † (paternal great-grandfather)Īlice Lombard † (paternal great-grandmother)īurt Rinaldi † (maternal great-grandfather)Ĭlaudia Rinaldi † (maternal great-grandmother) Fischoeder)ĭiaper rash, Smellcher, & Sled wetter (by Logan) Little Girl, & Annoying burger child (by Mr. Sweetheart, Sweet Pea, Cutie Pie, & Angel Dust (by her dad) Humpback Wacky Eyes & Blinky (by The Nose) Miss Smart Mouth & Little punk (by her mom)ĭetective Brenda Lee Johnson (by herself) Sister (by Tina Belcher and Gene Belcher & Regular Sized Rudy in " Bob Actually")įour-Ears & Little doggie (by Logan Bush) So let's give her a little slack.Honey & My girl (by her mom & Bob Belcher) True, he didn't whine about it and Tina did, but on the other hand, "walk a mile in her shoes": by 1960 her career could have been fabulous, and she might have done a host of great parts, but the type-casting system of those days just chewed her up. It's like Boris Karloff, who was an excellent Shakespearian actor but once he did Frankenstein, that was the end of it: it was ghoulish parts from then on. Was a very good actress (see God's Little Acre) but she made a dumb move when she accepted Gilligan's Island - absolutely B-grade stuff and it typecast her forever. Tina was a very good singer (check out her "Time for Tina" CD) and when they decided to do a film version of L'il Abner ( without Edie Adams) she asked to put the song back in. In the original broadway production of L'il Abner she had a solo song that was a scene-stealer (my uncle saw the first run, said she was the most memorable part of the whole show), and the star (Edie Adams) got so mad at being upstaged she convinced the producer (of whom she was the mistress) to cut it out. I understand where you're coming from, but I wouldn't be too hard on her, she really got the shaft several times in her career. But Tina Louise could do things with a push-up bra that few women could, so it's a real shame we haven't got a technicolor movie of her in her Appassionata costume. Stella Stevens got the part instead, so there was still eye candy, and while Tina Louise was a good singer, Stevens wasn't, so she wouldn't have argued that the song be restored. Unfortunately for us all, when they made the movie, Tina refused to be in it because they had cut out her solo song during the Broadway run and decided they wouldn't re-insert it in the movie. The role that first made her famous: Appassionata Von Climax in Broadway's "Li'l Abner". Since there are topics dedicated to every imaginable B-movie or TV wank-off fodder from Loni Anderson to Dawn Wells to Sue Ane Langdon to Annette Funicello to Linda Carter, it seems amazing no one has yet started a thread for Tina Louise, who was surely the inspiration for more late-adolescent tug-pulls in the 50s and 60s than all the other above-named starlets put together. Her pictures were literally everywhere, super-famous (athough only at a "B" sarlet level) when she got on the TV show, and in that sense Gilligan's Island type-casting really did ruin her career. Some of you in your 40s will only remember her from Gilligan's Island but those of us that go back a long way wil remember when, in the late 1950s, it seemed as though there wasn't month when her picture wasn't featured on the cover of SOME magazine. Not the porn star, the "original" Tina Louise.
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