Tish
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…
Tish
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. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> Living in the small town of Sunville, middle-aged headstrong spinster Tish Carberry feels that she must get involved in everything, even if it couldn't be any less her own business. Usually her meddling ends in disaster, but her two best friends, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, always follow her schemes. Her latest project is to get her 31-year-old nephew Charlie Sands, editor of the local newspaper, who lives with Tish in the family home, to fall in love with recently-orphaned 18-year-old Cora Edwards, whom she thinks is in love with Charlie. But Charlie is in love with Kit Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser, whom Tish detests; Kit is related to the judge and too haughty. Tish doesn't know that Charlie and Kit are engaged and Cora has fallen in love with Kit's more-age-appropriate but bumbling brother Ted Bowser. Charlie and Kit eventually get married, and Cora and Ted secretly elope because Ted plans to go into flight school in Canada without his father's knowledge. Through a series of accidents, misunderstandings, and preconceived beliefs, Tish ends up the guardian of whom she believes is Cora and Charlie's out-of-wedlock baby. She tells only Aggie and Lizzie of her beliefs. In keeping the secret about the baby's believed parentage, Tish is willing to sacrifice herself and her well-being for those she loves. —Huggo
Tish
Comedy,Drama,Romance
Film Details
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. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> Living in the small town of Sunville, middle-aged headstrong spinster Tish Carberry feels that she must get involved in everything, even if it couldn't be any less her own business. Usually her meddling ends in disaster, but her two best friends, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, always follow her schemes.
Her latest project is to get her 31-year-old nephew Charlie Sands, editor of the local newspaper, who lives with Tish in the family home, to fall in love with recently-orphaned 18-year-old Cora Edwards, whom she thinks is in love with Charlie. But Charlie is in love with Kit Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser, whom Tish detests; Kit is related to the judge and too haughty. Tish doesn't know that Charlie and Kit are engaged and Cora has fallen in love with Kit's more-age-appropriate but bumbling brother Ted Bowser.
Charlie and Kit eventually get married, and Cora and Ted secretly elope because Ted plans to go into flight school in Canada without his father's knowledge. Through a series of accidents, misunderstandings, and preconceived beliefs, Tish ends up the guardian of whom she believes is Cora and Charlie's out-of-wedlock baby. She tells only Aggie and Lizzie of her beliefs.
In keeping the secret about the baby's believed parentage, Tish is willing to sacrifice herself and her well-being for those she loves. —Huggo.