Tish

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• 1942
• 1 hr 24 mins
• Comedy, Drama

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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.