
Tish
1942 · Movie · NR · 84 min · ★ 6.5
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.
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Details
- Years
- 1942
- Release date
- 1942-09-17
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 84 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (4 votes)
Themes
- baby
- nephew
Cast & crew

Marjorie Main
as Miss Letitia 'Tish' Carberry

Zasu Pitts
as Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts)

Aline MacMahon
as Lizzie Wilkins

Susan Peters
as Cora Edwards Bowser

Lee Bowman
as Charles 'Charlie' Sands, Tish's Nephew

Guy Kibbee
as Judge Horace Bowser

Virginia Grey
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands

Richard Quine
as Theodore 'Ted' Bowser

Ruby Dandridge
as Violet

Howard Hickman
as Dr. Fielding Kelbridge
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon