Tillie (film)


Tillie is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Frank Urson, written by Alice Eyton, and starring Mary Miles Minter, Noah Beery, Sr., Allan Forrest, Lucien Littlefield, Lillian Leighton, and Marie Trebaol. Based upon the novel Tillie, a Mennonite Maid by Helen Reimensnyder Martin, it was released on January 29, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, Tillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz, an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end. Through the kindly machinations of Doc Weaver, the efforts of her father, the lawyer, Absalom, and, innocently, the Mennonite elders are frustrated and a happy marriage for Tillie provides a proper ending.

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