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Tillie the Toiler

Tillie the Toiler

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 5, 1927

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Original Title

Tillie the Toiler

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions

Director

Hobart Henley

Description

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."