Tina Thayer

Biography

Thelma Thayer Gibson was born on November 2, 1923 in Boston, Massachusets, to Manual Flanders Gibson and Florence Emsralda Fogg. Her parents divorced in the late 1920s, and Tina and Florence went on to live with Florence’s mother (also called Florence) in Worchester, Massachusests.

Tina’s mother, who was college educated, ran a singing school in Worchester, and Tina, naturally, took up singing from an early age. The mother-daughter duo moved to Boston when Tina was 8, and later to New York when she was 14 years old.

She got into acting by a random act of fate: while on vacation in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she was spotted by a theater director, and given a chance to act. Always a fan of acting, and more interested in it than in singing, Tina was ecstatic at the given opportunity. Her role had only 2 lines of dialogue, but she poured her heart and soul into it, and the critics took notice of her. - https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/

Known For

Meet John Doe

Ann's Sister (uncredited)

The Payoff

Phyllis Walker

A Yank at Eton

Flossie Sampson (uncredited)

Secrets of a Co-Ed

Brenda Reynolds

Jive Junction

Claire Emerson

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

Jennifer Dale

Girls Under 21

Jennie White

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1944	Henry Aldrich's Little Secret	Jennifer Dale
1943	Jive Junction	Claire Emerson
1942	The Payoff	Phyllis Walker
1942	Secrets of a Co-Ed	Brenda Reynolds
1942	A Yank at Eton	Flossie Sampson (uncredited)
1941	Meet John Doe	Ann's Sister (uncredited)
1940	Girls Under 21	Jennie White

Year	TV Show	Role