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Tish is a american film of genre Drama directed by S. Sylvan Simon released in USA on 17 september 1942 with Marjorie Main

Tish (1942)

Tish
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Released in USA 17 september 1942
Length 1h24
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating60% 3.048763.048763.048763.048763.04876

Tish is a 1942 comedy-drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Marjorie Main and Zasu Pitts.



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Synopsis

Letitia "Tish" Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house. Cora Edwards also lives at the boarding house and is in love with Charlie, who, however, loves Katherine "Kit" Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser. Tish and her cronies promote a romance between Cora and Charlie, but Cora decides it is Theodore "Ted" Bowser she loves and they are secretly married before Ted leaves for a training school in Toronto, learning to ferry planes to England. Charlie and Katherine also elope secretly. Cora, anxious to join Ted, borrows money from the church organ fund and leaves, telling no one where she is going. Tish takes the blame for the shortage. Cora raises the money to repay Tish and goes to the post office, while Ted is on a flight. Before she mails it, she opens a letter she received from the Canadian government announcing Ted's loss at sea. She faints, is taken to the hospital and gives birth to a boy, and dies. The only clue to her identity is the letter addressed to Tish. She arrives, decides the baby is Charlie's son, declares herself the grandmother and takes it home. Once there, she and her cronies take care of it in a rented cottage and she now claims it is her own. As a result Charlie, not knowing why she makes such a claim, has her put into a sanitarium for mental cases, and he and Katherine take the baby and plan to send it to an orphanage as Katherine does not realize it is her own nephew. Tish's essentric friends come to Katherine and Charlie and tell Katherine, Charlie and Judge Bowser the truth as they know it according to Cora's letter. Kit is angry that Charlie "cheated" on her, but accepts the baby, and Charlie takes his aunt Tish out of the sanitarium and brings her home. When Charlie brings Tish home Ted, Katherine's brother, suddenly arrives home and claims the baby as his and Cora's. Ted then appoints Tish as the babies guardien, as she was willing to take care of the child originally with no regard for her own reputation. The movie ends with Ted announcing that he is joining the army, and Tish firing the bulter.

Actors

Marjorie Main

(Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry)Aline MacMahon

(Lizzie Wilkins)Zasu Pitts

(Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts))Susan Peters

(Cora Edwards Bowser)Guy Kibbee

(Judge Horace Bowser)
And :
Virginia Grey
Lee Bowman
Richard Quiney
Ruby Dandridge
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