Just finished watching Tish (1942) starring Marjorie Main. I have always loved her movies but, had never seen this one. This one is different from the others. In the Ma and Pa Kettle movies, she was always wild and boisterous. Funny and loveable always. In Tish, she shows a sad vulnerable side that affected me I think because I'd never seen her in that light.
Tish is a movie about three busybodies Main, Zasu Pitts, and Aline MacMahon. Tish(Main) a boisterous cussing woman, tries to get her nephew together with Cora, a woman who lives in a boarding house with Aggie(Pitts) and Lizzie(MacMahon) but, the two realize that they are each in love with someone else. As the movie progresses, Tish ends up with a baby she tries to pass off as her own. By the end, she has lost her spark and has become quiet and withdrawn from disappointments and keeping secrets.
I love this because you can see the progression of the character and it tears at your heart to seesuch a thing happen to her. I almost cried at the end. I can be such a baby sometimes :) So, if you love Marjorie Main as I do and you've never seen this movie, you should check it out.
