Tina Carver

Tina Carver, born Bertenia June Brown, was an American actress and model active in the 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Salina, Kansas, Carver lived in Little Rock, Arkansas and Houston, Texas during her growing up years. She trained as a pianist and worked in that capacity in Houston before becoming an actress. She studied drama at the University of Houston, and began her stage career in Europe in the early 1950s performing in theaters in Berlin and Paris. After performing in plays in Texas and California in 1953, she signed with Columbia Pictures in 1954. She made films with Columbia through 1957, and also worked in films with other Hollywood Studios in the mid 1950s. She also worked as an actress on American television from 1954-1961. In her later life she lived in Seattle, Washington where she worked as a realtor. She died at the age of 58 from complications of lung cancer at Stevens Memorial Hospital in Edmonds, Washington in 1982.