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Lee Bowman, Aline MacMahon, Marjorie Main, Susan Peters, and Zasu Pitts in Tish (1942)

Some people you have to know well to dislike. Others you can hate on very short acquaintance.

Aline MacMahon, Marjorie Main, and Zasu Pitts in Tish (1942)

Lee Bowman, Aline MacMahon, Marjorie Main, and Zasu Pitts in Tish (1942)

Aline MacMahon and Zasu Pitts in Tish (1942)

Marjorie Main

Zasu Pitts

Aline MacMahon

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Annalee Whitmore

Tom Seller

Letitia &quot;Tish&quot; Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a nearby boarding-house. Cora Edwards also lives there and is in lo...

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Tish

This comedy is a tragedy

It&apos;s nice to see the three great characters actresses, but they are given very little to work with. Marjorie Main&apos;s is the only developed character, and she seems miscast in it. Fine production values, to be sure, but this film is a mess from beginning to end. The script desperately needed many more re-writes, as you can&apos;t tell who&apos;s supposed to be in love with whom. People that you think are supposed to be good do cruel things, and then you&apos;re supposed to turn around and find them good again. Terribly tragic events are used as contrived plot devices, and passed over by the characters with little more than an &quot;oh, too bad&quot; by the characters. Then to compound the tragedy of this comedy is the back story: Susan Peters, so young and beautiful in this film married Richard Quine who played her love interest. She was paralyzed in a gun accident a few years later, and after trying to recover her career by working in a wheelchair, she fell into depression and decline and died. She had divorced Quine. He had a successful but largely forgotten career as a director, until he also fell into depression and committed suicide.

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It's nice to see the three great characters actresses, but they are given very little to work with. Marjorie Main's is the only developed character, and she seems miscast in it. Fine production values, to be sure, but this film is a mess from beginning to end. The script desperately needed many more re-writes, as you can't tell who's supposed to be in love with whom. People that you think are supposed to be good do cruel things, and then you're supposed to turn around and find them good again. Terribly tragic events are used as contrived plot devices, and passed over by the characters with little more than an "oh, too bad" by the characters. Then to compound the tragedy of this comedy is the back story: Susan Peters, so young and beautiful in this film married Richard Quine who played her love interest. She was paralyzed in a gun accident a few years later, and after trying to recover her career by working in a wheelchair, she fell into depression and decline and died. She had divorced Quine. He had a successful but largely forgotten career as a director, until he also fell into depression and committed suicide.

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 nearby boarding-house. Cora Edwards also lives there and is in love with Charlie, but he loves Katherine "Kit" Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser. Tish and her cronies promote a romance between Cora and Charlie, but Cora decides that she loves Theodore "Ted" Bowser, 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, 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 him home. Once there, she and her cronies take care of him in a rented cottage and she now claims that he 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 him to an orphanage, as Katherine does not realize it is her own nephew.

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