The Young Comedienne
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A year later, in the '66-'67 TV season, Tisha would begin to demonstrate her talents as a comedienne, first co-starring with Shelley Winters in the "Ma Parker" episodes (Oct 5-6, '66) of the Batman TV series, where as Legs Parker she combined vaudevillian slapstick with put-ons of such screen moments as Mae Clarke's grapefruit-in-the-face. . . . . . . .Followed four months later by her drily tongue-in-cheek performance as beauty queen Teesha Heinschmidt, Miss U.S.A., who's targeted by KAOS kidnappers in "The Girls from KAOS" episode (Feb 4, '67) of Get Smart.
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Tisha singing "When the Sun Starts Shining Through" in Hall Bartlett's "The Wild Pack" (1972). Co-starring as Tisha's lover and the leader of the youthful street gang was Ronda Fleming's son Kent Lane, with Alejandro ReyIMDb (d. 1987) as Fr. Jose Pedro, a Catholic priest who supports the children in opposition to the right-wing diocesan chancellor played by Aloysio De Oliveira. |