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Raw-boned, raspy-voiced, sixty-something Letitia "Tish" Carberry (Marjorie Main, who would find her greatest fame in the Ma Kettle film series) comes back to her hometown with a baby in her arms. "I'm a woman. It's a baby. It's mine!" she declares. Three splendid character actresses - Main, Zasu Pitts and Aline MacMahon - play three delightful spinsters in Tish, based on stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The old dears try their hands at matchmaking, get everything in a dreadful muddle, and end up caring for an orphaned baby they mistakenly believe is illegitimate. This warm comedy is laced with drama and punctuated with plenty of sight gags, including Main roller-skating in her Sunday best and the three stars tangling with a disgruntled bear on a camping trip.
Original Release
09/17/1942
US Release
09/17/1942
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marjorie Main | Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry |
ZaSu Pitts | Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts) / Aggie Pilkington |
Aline MacMahon | Lizzie Wilkins |
Susan Peters | Cora Edwards Bowzer / Cora Edwards Bowser |
Lee Bowman | Charles 'Charlie' Sands - Tish's Nephew / Charles 'Charlie' Sands, Tish's Nephew |
Guy Kibbee | Judge Horace Bowser |
Virginia Grey | Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands |
Richard Quine | Theodore 'Ted' Bowser |
Sam Ash | Man on Street |
King Baggot | Man on Street |
Directors
Writers
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Annalee Whitmore, Tom Seller, Harry Ruskin, Frances Marion, Carey Wilson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marjorie Main | Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry |
ZaSu Pitts | Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts) / Aggie Pilkington |
Aline MacMahon | Lizzie Wilkins |
Susan Peters | Cora Edwards Bowzer / Cora Edwards Bowser |
Lee Bowman | Charles 'Charlie' Sands - Tish's Nephew / Charles 'Charlie' Sands, Tish's Nephew |
Guy Kibbee | Judge Horace Bowser |
Virginia Grey | Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands |
Richard Quine | Theodore 'Ted' Bowser |
Sam Ash | Man on Street |
King Baggot | Man on Street |
Nora Cecil | Spinster |
St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers | Singers at Wedding |
Ruby Dandridge | Violet |
William Farnum | John |
Howard Hickman | Mr. Fielding Kelbridge / Dr. Fielding Kelbridge |
Gertrude Hoffman | Spinster |
George Humbert | Tony |
Jennie Mac | Spinster |
George Noisom | Special Delivery Boy |
Robert Emmett O'Connor | Game Warden |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Orville O. Dull | Producer |